MEDVL 6201 - [Topics in Medieval Latin Literature]

(crosslisted)
(also LATIN 7223)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with LATIN 4223/MEDVL 4201.

A. Hicks.

This course, designed for students in all fields of study, will examine exegetical strategies in Medieval Latin across multiple genres and periods, including biblical, literary, art-historical, legal, philosophical, and historical examples that range from Augustine to Boccaccio. We will focus primarily on texts that, in addition to offering examples of exegesis in action, directly confront and theorize exegetical methods and ends. Weekly class meetings will be divided between a two-hour lecture/discussion and a one-hour close reading of select passages. A basic foundation in Latin morphology, syntax, and vocabulary is assumed. Intermediate and advanced topics in post-Classical idioms and syntax will be treated as they arise, with the goal of improving the facility with which students approach, read, and, especially, understand Latin writings from the Middle Ages.