MDVL 501

Fall 2013

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Topics in Medieval Studies
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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
61645
Lecture-Discussion
SPM
2:00PM -3:50PM
TR
ARR Library
Clark, J
Part of Term:
A
Date Range:
08/26/13-10/18/13
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
From Script to Print
Section Info:
MEETS WITH: LIS and in Reading Room at the Library. Extended Topic: 'From Script to Print: The Transformation of Medieval Culture, c.1350-c. 1550'. This special seminar, taught by distinguished Visiting Professor James Clark (Exeter Univ.), will meet twice weekly for 5 weeks (from 27 August to 26 September), followed by 3 weeks of distance-supervision of students' research projects until the end of the 8-week term (19 October). DESCRIPTION: Between the Black Death and the Break with Rome the cultural life of Western Europe was transformed. Even before moveable metal type came out of the Rhineland, old orthodoxies had been unsettled by novel scholarship, fervent classicism and vigorous, vernacular polemic carried in manuscript to a widening constituency of consumers. Print cemented these novelties and created a responsive reading public. It was this engaged, social community of readers that ensured renewed calls for reform around 1517 were not to be stifled and which became the focus of princely and pontifical efforts to confessionalize the continent. These remarkable changes might be studied by means of particular authors, texts or indeed the more dominant ideas but this course will focus on arguably the most powerful agents, the books themselves. In each seminar, an original book from the period will act as a point-of-entry into the key developments, and their effects for the people of Europe. REQUIREMENTS: Course requirements: class presentation and a 20-page seminar paper for submission at the close of the eight-week course.
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