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

3 unit(s)

B. Kaczynski, A. Savage (cross-listed as ENGLISH 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 Memoirs of Guibert of Nogent, the correspondence of Héloise and Abelard, the writings of Hildegard of Bingen, and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain.