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Courses in Fall 2004
Special Opportunity: ITT 4956 (S/U only)
Dr. Michael Paden
This two-credit course is taught in conjunction with ITT 2100 but is open to all UF students. Students will travel during Thanksgiving week (Saturday Nov. 20-Sunday Nov. 28) to Florence and Rome. Among the sites to be visited are: Uffizi Gallery, the Accademia (original David), Bargello (Donatello's S. George), Opera del Duomo (Michelangelo's Pieta', "Gates of Paradise", Della Robbia); Medici Chapel (Michelangelo's Lorenzo and Giuliano--to whom Machiavelli dedicated The Prince); churches: the Baptistry, Santa Maria Novella (meeting place of the storytellers from the Decameron), the Duomo, Santa Croce (Giotto's frescos, Michelangelo and Machiavelli's tomb), San Lorenzo, Pisa's Baptistry and the Museo delle Sinopie (Buffalmacco is a painter in the Decameron), and the Tower of Count Ugolino (Inferno XXXIII); and in Rome Saint Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo's Moses, Pantheon, and the Borghese Gallery (Bernini's sculptures). For information contact Dr. Michael Paden <mpaden@rll.ufl.edu> 355 Dauer, 392-2016 ext. 241. Act fast, there are a few spots left.
ARH 4251: Romanesque and Gothic Art
Dr. David Stanley
ARH 4304: Italian Renaissance Architecture
Dr. David Stanley
ENG 3230: Age of Dryden and Pope
Dr. Mel New
The course will cover the period of English literature from 1660-1744, along with Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759-67), and will concentrate on the poems and satires of Dryden, Pope, and Swift, and the philosophy of John Locke, among others. The main subject we will be examining is how these authors all managed to anticipate (indeed predict) the madness of much in modern intellectual life, beginning with unintelligible writing by critics of literature (whom Pope labeled "Dunces" in his famous Dunciad); to the incoherences of religious and political fanaticism (which Swift labeled the "perpetual possession of being well-deceived; of being a fool among knaves); and concluding with the vices and follies of a society that was losing its sense of art amidst a flood of bad writing, and something called "popular culture (what Dryden would label "the realms of Nonsense, absolute." (He also wrote that "Loads of Sh** almost chok'd the way" but we will try not to be vulgar in this course). There will be written work and students will be expected to read the assignments.
ENG 4133 : History in the Dark (Ages): Getting Medieval on Film
Dr. Richard Burt
This course will use Monty Python's Holy Grail (and related films by co-directors Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam) and The Name of the Rose (along with writings about the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco) as competing ways of examining films about the Middle Ages in relation to three key terms: authenticity, anachronism, and allegory. Monty Python's Holy Grail and The Name of the Rose will serve as two (unstavble) poles for discussion, the former tending toward nonsense, childishness, paratextual effects, and allegorical emptiness and the latter tending toward the detection of significance, clues, maturity, palimpsestic depths, and allegorical plenitude. Setting these poles in dialectical, even self-deconstructing opposition, we will consider what authenticity means in film, why it is valued, whether it is desireable or even possible. Along similar lines we will consider the multiple facets of historical anachronism (comedy, paraody, paratextual effect, palimpsestic traces, criticism) and various dreams or allegories of the Middle ages (most often as the age of superstition, sorcery, dirt, and barbarism, or as the age of chivalry, romance, magic, and courtesy).
ENL 4311: Chaucer
Dr. Al Shoaf
be offered in class.) The course is not, however, a course in language as such.
EUH 2001/REL2930: Western Civilization, from the Middle Ages to the 18th century
Dr. Nina Caputo
A survey of some of the central themes in the history of medieval history in central Europe, including feudal, manorial, urban and religious institutions in medieval society.
EUH 3383: Pagans, Christians, Barbarians: The World of Late Antiquity
Dr. Andrea Strek
Between classical and medieval, pagan and Christian, Roman and "barbarian," the late antique world was a civilization in transition. This course will focus on the Mediterranean region from the end of the second to the beginning of the seventh century. We will examine political, cultural, religious and socio-economic transitions that characterized this period looking at elements of continuity as well as change. We will consider the significance of such factors as the conversion of Constantine, the rise of Constantinople, Christian responses to culture, the monastic movement, the persistence of paganism, the fall of Rome, barbarian invasions, Christianization, and developments inphilosophy, theology and education.
EUH 3500: Medieval England
Dr. John Sommerville
The creation of a national society and culture in the time of England's constitutional development (to the sixteenth century).
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GET 3200: The Literature of Knighthood in Germany
Dr. Will Hasty
(Follow the instructions to log in to the WebCT Curriculum in German Studies, then look for the course near the bottom of the page under "Courses in Translation")
HIS 3931: Honors Seminar, The Jews of Sepharad
Dr. Nina Caputo
ITT 2100 #8204: Masterpieces of Italian Literature 1: Medieval and Renaissance
Dr. Michael Paden
"Hell, Love, and Politics": Readings in English translation include Dante's Inferno, Boccaccio's Decameron, and excerpts from Machiavelli's Prince and Discourses.
Special Opportunity: add ITT 4956, a one-credit capstone course taught as a field trip to Florence and Rome (7 days during Thanksgiving Break; est. cost for transportation, lodging, some meals, and museums: $1300)
LIT 3031: Studies in Poetry The Three Johns
Dr. Mel New
The course will read the poetry of John Donne, John Milton, and John Dryden. The primary focus will be on the tools one must acquire in order to read poetry well, and there will be some emphasis given to understanding the formal structures of poetry--all those things you should have been taught in high school or in Freshman English but somehow never got to. Paradise Lost is one of the poems that will be read. There will be written work and students will be expected to read the assignments.
LIT 6855: Issues in Cultural Studies: Medieval and Early Modern sorplus
Dr. Al Shoaf
REL 2930: see EUH 2001
REL 4936/JST 3930/HIS 3931: Writing the Jewish Middle Ages
Dr. Nina Caputo
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