Spring 2018

F 1pm-3:59pm Boylston 103 (FAS) Racha Kirakosian Description The goal of this full year's course is two-fold: in terms of research results, it will create an interactive on-line edition of a medieval Mary Magdalene legend transmitted in the Lower Rhine...

W 3-4:59 pm Location TBA Thomas Cummins

Ioli Kalavrezou W 1-2:59pm Location TBA The seminar will study illustrated manuscripts that were produced in the Byzantine world from the 9th to the 15th century. Most of them are books, which contain religious texts: Old Testament, Gospels, Psalters etc...

M 11-11:59 W 11-11:59 Location: TBA Hannah Marcus Between 1500 and 1700, a number of hugely consequential things happened in Europe that have traditionally and collectively been called revolutionary – the Scientific Revolution. Copernicus and Galileo...

David Atherton Times TBA Location:TBA Poetry written by gods, incestuous aristocratic romances, exorcist theater, samurai fantasy novels, fart literature: traditional Japanese literature has something for everyone, and invites us to rethink our...

Deidre Lynch T 2:00pm - 3:59pm Location:TBA This course investigates the rise of the novel in conjunction with the rise of modern communications networks and information technologies. It investigates this literary genre’s accounts of people’s...

W 1-3:59 Location: TBA David Stern This is a course about READING; specifically about the many different ways in which a single book, the Bible, was read and interpreted in the ancient and medieval periods by Jews and Christians. No book in the history of...