MDVL 500

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Seminar in Medieval Studies

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Credit: 4 hours.

Team-taught, interdisciplinary seminar on varying topics in Medieval Studies drawing on faculty from UIUC and invited scholars from other universities.

Approved for letter and S/U grading. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

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MDVL 500 class schedule data for spring 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52496	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	R	Location Pending	Symes, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Writing Regimes Texts&Contexts Section Info: Writing Regimes: Interrogating Premodern Texts and Contexts in Global Perspective Written records are a main source of historical evidence for understanding ancient and medieval societies -- but how should we read, analyze, and critique these texts in order to extract information from them? How can we more fully account for the contextual forces that have shaped a given record, from its material supports (papyrus, parchment, stone, wood, wax, textile) to its entangled and contingent reception history? How have specific documentary regimes worked to control what is preserved and why, and how have modern categories and archiving practices worked to create artificial genres and hierarchies of knowledge? How can we better account for the multiple media (oral, visual, performative) through which texts were transmitted and accessed – even by non-literate individuals and groups? This seminar will interrogate the making of premodern texts in order to enrich, complicate, and challenge our reliance on them, engaging technologies and practices of literacy from many cultures around the world. Students will then apply what they learn to a particular text or archive relevant to their own research. This course will meet in 107D English Building. Restriction(s): Not intended for Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.