ENGLISH 740 / Medieval Discourses of the Self, 1000-1200

3 unit(s)

B. Kaczynski, A. Savage (cross-listed as HISTORY 740)

An interdisciplinary seminar, designed for students interested in a range of theoretical approaches to the past. We will examine a series of problematic medieval texts as contested sites of medieval selfhood: the correspondence of Heloise and Abelard, the writings of Hildegard of Bingen, Andreas Capellanus’ The Art of Courtly Love, and Geoffrey de Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain.