| Summer 2009 Courses and Faculty
Summer Courses
MI 30264. The Vikings
Courtney Luckhardt
3 credits
M W F 10:30 A.M. - 12:25 P.M.
6/23/09-8/6/09
Vikings are usually painted in modern popular culture as either fierce warriors or bloodthirsty pagan barbarians who descended upon peaceful monks or settlements without cause. The negative view is largely based on the sources written by the early medieval victims of Viking raids, while later medieval Scandinavian saga literature tended to characterize their warrior ancestors as noble savages. Ever since, historians have examined the Vikings as embodying one of these two extremes. However, Viking raids were merely one part of a complex adaptation by the Norse people to the marginal lands of Scandinavia. Raids certainly occurred, but so too did explorations, foreign settlement, trade, and extended subsistence activities at the home in Scandinavia. The Norse were also savvy merchants, gifted craftsmen, hardworking farmers, and cunning political players who built kingdoms in Europe, established relations with the Muslim world, and even made it to the shores of North America. In this course students will explore the culture, history, arts and worldviews of the Old Norse, including their mythology, the saga literature, and their conversion to Christianity. They will also investigate how the Vikings have been understood and represented through the centuries between their days and ours, and will ask questions about how our knowledge of the Vikings is produced. This course is open to all students; no previous knowledge of the topic is necessary.
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MI 40004/60004. Medieval Latin
Frank A. C. Mantello
3 credits; 10:30-12:25 MWF
6/23/09-8/6/09
This course is an introduction to the Latin language and literature
of the late antique and medieval periods (ca. A.D.
200-1500). Designed to move students toward independent work with
Medieval Latin texts, the course will emphasize the close reading
and careful translation of a variety of representative Medieval
Latin texts and documents, with attention to vocabulary and word
formation, orthography and pronunciation, morphology and syntax,
and prose styles and metrics. The course will also provide a review of the principal construction of Classical Latin and an
introduction to some of the areas of Medieval Latin scholarship,
including lexica, bibliographies, great collections and repertories
of sources, and reference works for the study of Latin works composed
in the Middle Ages. ($45 materials fee.)
The Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Centers and Regional
Associations (CARA) offers two full-tuition scholarships for students
taking a three-credit summer program Latin course through the
Medieval Institute at Notre Dame. Application details and eligibility
information is available at: http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/programs/summer.html.
Prerequisite: Both elementary and intermediate
Classical Latin or the equivalent, taken recently for college
credit.
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MI 47801/67801. Research in Biocultural
Anthropology
Susan G. Sheridan
6 credits 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. MTWRF
6/9/09-7/24/09
The Jerusalem field school will engage students in an experiential learning environment that immerses them in anthropological method and theory. Using the large Byzantine St. Stephen's skeletal collection as the cornerstone, historical and archaeological information will be synthesized in a biocultural reconstruction of ancient monastic life. Students will conduct original research, share in a field trip program visiting numerous Byzantine sites and area research institutions, and will participate in a lecture program delivered by top scholars in the fields of biological anthropology, classics, and Near Eastern studies.Visit the project web site at: http://www.nd.edu/~stephens.
Enrollment limit 12. Permission of instructor and
application required; contact Susan Guise Sheridan (Susan.G.Sheridan.5@nd.edu),
574-631-7670.
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MI 60005. Paleography
Frank A. C. Mantello
3 credits; MWF 2:30-4:25
6/23/09-8/6/09
This course is an introduction to the study of medieval writing
materials and practices and of Latin scripts from antiquity to
the early Renaissance. Designed to provide students with the skills
necessary to make use of Latin manuscripts in their research,
the course will focus on practical exercises in identifying, transcribing,
dating, and localizing the various scripts. It will be of interest
(1) to a wide variety of students whose courses are centered in
or touch upon the Middle Ages and who wish to work with unpublished
Latin materials of the medieval period; (2) to professional Latinists
and other humanists who study the classical tradition and the
transmission of texts before the age of printing; and (3) to librarians
and others with an interest in manuscripts, diplomata, incunabula,
and rare books. ($45 materials fee.)
The Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Centers and Regional
Associations (CARA) offers two full-tuition scholarships for students
taking a three-credit summer program Latin course through the
Medieval Institute at Notre Dame. Application details and eligibility
information is available at: http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/programs/summer.html
Prerequisite: Both elementary and intermediate
Classical Latin or the equivalent, taken recently for college
credit, or MI 40004/60004 (=MI 470/570) or the equivalent.
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Summer Session
Faculty
Courtney Luckhardt
Ms. Luckhardt holds a master's degree in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute and is completing her doctoral dissertation on "The Sea and the Saints: Travel and Hagiography in the Northwestern Atlantic in the Ninth Century." She is a winner of the Notre Dame Kaneb Center's Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award.
Frank A. C. Mantello
Professor Mantello has a doctorate from the University of
Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies. Since 1979 he has taught
Medieval Latin, Latin Paleography, Codicology and Textual Criticism
at the Catholic University of America, where he is a professor
in the Department of Greek and Latin and chair of the department. He is coeditor of Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, the standard English handbook in the field.
Susan Guise Sheridan
Professor Sheridan is the coordinator of the Byzantine St. Stephen's
Project, a biocultural study of life in a large urban monastery
in Jerusalem. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado
and is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame.
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Other Courses of
Interest to Medievalists
THEO 60205. Medieval Theology
Joseph Wawrykow
3 credits
M T W R F 2:00 - 4:20P
07/13/09 - 07/31/09
From its origins in the Judaism of first-century Palestine, early Christianity spread quickly into Aramaic-, Greek-, and Latin-speaking communities of the Roman Empire. This course will introduce the institutions created by Christianity as it separated from Judaism, as well as its interaction with the cultures into which it spread around the Mediterranean basin and into Mesopotamia and the Caucasus. From these interactions came an articulated church structure, with literary and liturgical cultures specific to particular territories, and a cluster of beliefs both shared with and differentiated from Graeco-Roman and eastern cultures. Along with the history of these cultures, the course will consider the book cultures of early Christianity and its catechists, who gave rise to a web of teachings modulated in controversy and ecumenical councils. The resultant theology, particularly teachings about the divine nature of Jesus and the related doctrine of the triadic godhead, is an important philosophical legacy of early Christianity, and will be the focus of inquiry as the course progresses.
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THEO 60260. John of the Cross/Teresa of Avila
Keith Egan
4 credits
M T W R F 9:45 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
M T W R F 2:00 - 4:15 P.M.
07/13/09 - 07/24/09
This course will explore the lives and teachings of these two Spanish mystics who have left an indelible mark on the spiritual and mystical consciousness of Christianity. Themes in this course will include a critical understanding as spiritual classics of the texts of these two saints and doctors of the church; an exploration of the texts of Teresa inasmuch as they reveal God's presence in human life through the gifted story telling of this woman from Castile; an inquiry into John of the Cross's poetry as the primary locus of his mystical teaching; John of the Cross and Teresa as a resources for ordinary and sacramental mysticism; the meaning of interpreting Teresa and John in the light of each other; the implications for prayer and a more contemplative church through the mystical doctrine of Teresa and John; an exploration of the teaching of Teresa and John for the relationship of hope and prayer; the search for an answer to the question of whether or not the bridal/erotic mysticism of these two Carmelites can still flourish in the sex-soaked culture of the third millennium; finally: what do Teresa and John have to offer in the search for better understanding of what mysticism means for humanity as a deepening of human consciousness and as a road to a fuller and more flourishing humanity?
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