The MEMS monthly e-newsletter shares information about events, conferences, calls for papers, student and faculty work in the field, and digital resources that enrich our understanding of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. If you have questions about the minor, get in touch with Co-Directors Professor Amy Froide (froide@umbc.edu) and Professor Susan McDonough. If you have any items you would like to share in the newsletter, please send them to Laurel Bassett at lburgg1@umbc.edu by the 13th of each month.
MEMS EVENTS
Wednesday, February 23, 12:15 PM, Online. Did You Know the Aeneid Has a Sequel? Renaissance Addendum! an installment of Mini-MEMS Lunch and Learns
Mini-MEMS Lunch and Learns are opportunities for professors working in Medieval and Early Modern Studies to informally share their work through brief presentations followed by Q and A sessions. Our December session will be led by Professor Timothy Phin in Ancient Studies.
Did You Know the Aeneid Has a Sequel? Renaissance Addendum!
Modern students of Latin have often felt that the 12th book of the Aeneid ends on an abrupt note. Maffeo Vegio, a poet of the 15th century, agreed. He penned an addendum to Vergil’s poem, “completing” the work, and securing for himself quite a bit of fame. This talk is an exploration of the Aeneid’s “future.” We will look at Vegio’s work, his life, and the fervor for Vergil in the Renaissance.
ID:
26215120917
Password: vdM3aMNDG94
*Did you miss our last Mini-MEMS: Law and Order in Ancient Rome and Beyond? Weep no more—you can now catch it on our website: www.mems.umbc.edu and a special thank you to Dr. Molly-Jones Lewis, Ancient Studies for such a great presentation.
Stay tuned for more on our next virtual Mini-MEMS Lunch and Learn in March.
ON CAMPUS EVENTS
February 27, 3-4:30 PM, Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall, Performing Arts Building, The Candlelight Concert Society presents pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard
This program includes work by C.P.E. Bach, Beethoven, Benjamin, Mozart, Sweelinck and Volkonsky. Your musical imagination will stretch with an evening of fantasias, pieces rooted in improvisation and the abandonment of strict musical form. Ranging from anguished to jovial, the range of emotional and musical colors is a highlight of this program. Aimard has appeared at Carnegie Hall, New York’s Lincoln Center, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, and the Lucerne Festival. In-person student tickets are $10. A livestream of the concert will also be available. The Candlelight Concert Society will also host a “Know Before You Go” Zoom talk on Tuesday February 22 at 7:30 PM. For more information on the Zoom session and the concert, see: https://candlelightconcerts.org/events/pierre-laurent-aimard-piano/
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Thursday, February 10, 6:00 PM (Stratford time—1:00 PM EST!), Online. The Globe Theatre presents: Anti-Racist Shakespeare Webinar: Hamlet
Free Anti-Racist Shakespeare webinars bring a range of perspectives from scholars and artists about Shakespeare’s plays and how they engage with the topics of race and identity. In this webinar, Globe scholars will be joined by theatre artists and scholars including Ian Smith and Naeem Hayatt to discuss race and social justice in Hamlet. You will need to register in advance to receive a link to attend the live Zoom webinar. The event is open to all. To register and for more information on the Globe’s webinars, consult: https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/anti-racist-shakespeare-hamlet-2021/
February 11-February 12, 9-5 PM daily, Online. The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies presents: Popular Culture and the Deep Past 2022-The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food
This event will feature a scholarly conference (with papers, round tables, and other academic events) nested within a Renaissance-faire-like carnival (featuring exhibits, gaming, contests, and activities of all kinds.) Presentations include everything from “Exploring the Popularity of Pasta and Spaghetti during the Renaissance”, to “Treason’s in a December-pie: Mince Pies in England, 1610-1660” to the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective which invites anyone interested to help transcribe recipes from the manuscript of a seventeenth-century English gentlewoman. For more information and to register, see: https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/popular-culture-and-deep-past-2022-experimental-archaeology-medieval-and-renaissance-food
Tuesday, February 15, 12:00 PM, Online. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture presents: Syriac Villages in the Tur Abdin: A Microhistory of the Medieval Middle East
Marica Cassis, University of Calvary, explores the significance of colonialism in the study of Tur Adbin, the importance of microhistory in understanding archaeological material, and the overall underdiscussed material present in the region. Advanced registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/
Friday, February 25, 12 PM Central, Online. The Center for Renaissance Studies Presents Medici Florence Today: A Roundtable
This interdisciplinary roundtable in honor of Professor Eric Cochrane’s seminal Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800: A History of Florence and the Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes (1973) examines the state of research on the Medici Grand Duchy today, considering in particular how the lenses of gender, globalization, and race have revitalized the scholarship on Florence in the late Renaissance. Roundtable Speakers: Shelia Barker “Women Artists and the Medici Grand Dukes”, Brian Brege “Florence’s Forgotten Global Ambitions: Deprovincializing Early Modern Tuscany”, Emily Wilbourne “Race, Voice, and Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Florence.” This event is free and accessible through the following link: https://newberry.zoom.us/j/89415791745?pwd=Q2RzSzU3RFNSODcyOUxmNlBpdWYxQT09
Friday-Sunday, March 4-6, 2022. The Folger Consort, Live at St. Mark’s Church, Washington D.C., and On-Demand, presents The Viennese School: Music from the Court of Maximilian I
The Folger Consort traces the origins of Vienna’s history as an epicenter of musical activity with music from the earliest “Viennese School”—the assembly of composers at the court of Emperor Maximilian I around the year 1500. To listen to a playlist preview, and for more information on the in-person and on-demand versions of the concert, consult: https://www.folger.edu/events/the-viennese-school-music-from-the-court-of-maximilian-i Please note that attendees 12 years old and over are required to show proof of vaccination with a photo ID. All attendees are required to wear a mask.
PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
Call for Papers-Multilingual Dynamics of Medieval Literature in Western Europe, Utrecht University, September 21-23, 2022
The medieval world was by no means monolingual. Languages flourished and grew, circulated, and travelled across geo-political frontiers. This was true of vernacular languages and perhaps especially so for Latin, a cosmopolitan language par excellence. What were the stakes and consequences of multilingualism through cultural, social, artistic, or material lenses? We invite proposals for 20 minute papers addressing any aspect of medieval literature and literary culture. Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to court and urban communities and their languages, contact zones, genre and linguistic frontiers. We welcome proposals from scholars at all career stages—and from all disciplinary backgrounds. It is our intention to hold the conference in person in Utrecht and the working language will be English. Speakers may be invited after the conference to contribute to a book of essays, which we hope to publish in Open Access in early 2023. Proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent to the project team at multilingualdynamics@gmail.com by April 1, 2022. For further information, visit: https://multilingualdynamics.sites.uu.nl/.
Call for Proposals—Attending to Women, 1100-1800: Performance, Newberry Library, September 30-October 1, 2022
This conference asks how women’s performances of power, gender, and art before 1800 provide powerful paths towards understanding their lives and our own today. The conference will ask such questions as: how do medieval, early modern, and Indigenous women draw on various forms of power, from the racial to the religious, to perform different roles? How was the category of “woman” itself contested, reinforced, and complicated through the performance of gender? What did women choose to perform through music, dance, and visual art? Lastly, what responsibilities and possibilities do we have as scholars who teach and share our work with the public? The conference will use a workshop model for most of its sessions to promote dialogue, augmented by a keynote lecture and a plenary panel on each of the four conference topics: power, gender, art, and public humanities/pedagogy. We welcome proposals for workshop sessions. The submission deadline is Tuesday, March 15, 2022. For more information about submitting a workshop proposal, please visit the conference website: https://www.newberry.org/09302022-attending-women-1100-1800-performance?bblinkid=257641818&bbemailid=37687681&bbejrid=-2054659401
COURSES
Rare Book School Summer Course Applications Opening This Week!
Expand your understanding of book history during a Rare Book School course this summer. The five-day intensive courses on the history of manuscript, print, and digital materials will be offered online and in person at the University of Virginia and other partner institutions. Sample course offerings including:
Six Degrees of Phillis Wheatley, taught by Tara Bynum (University of Iowa)
African American Print Cultures in the Nineteenth-Century United States, taught by Derrick R. Spires (Cornell University)
Textual Mobilities: Works, Books & Reading Across Early Modern Europe, taught by Roger Chartier and John Pollack (University of Pennsylvania)
The Bible and Histories of Reading, taught by Peter Stallybrass (Professor Emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania).
To be considered in the first round of admissions decisions, course applications should be submitted no later than March 7th. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Visit our website at www.rarebookschool.org for course details, instructions for applying, and evaluations by past students.
DIGITAL RESOURCES
History, storytelling, and escape from slavery in 17th and 18th Century London. This digital anthology combines art and research to reimagine stories of London’s runaways, showing African and South Asian people to have been present in London in the early modern era, challenging their enslavers and running away into the City of London, eager to find better and freer lives. This anthology includes the historical research of Professor Simon Newman and Dr. Peggy Brunache, poets Abena Essah, Gboyega Odubanjo, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Momtaza Mehri, Memoona Zahid and artists Tasia Graham and Olivia Twist.
“The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Medieval Studies-A Global Digital Medievalist Symposium” from the Medieval Academy of America. Recorded May 24, 2021, this presentation from a worldwide Digital Symposium focused on Digital Medieval Studies in the Americas, centers the importance of images and imaging for medievalists working on the western side of the Atlantic. https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/DigitalMedievalStudies
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library Creates New Database to Assist Scholars of Understudied Manuscript Traditions
Because of HMML’s focus on materials historically underrepresented in western scholarship, the scale of HMML’s collections, and its investment in preservation technology, HMML is uniquely positioned to build the scholarly infrastructure that currently does not exist for many traditions. This service-focused scholarship will in turn broaden the impact of digital preservation efforts around the world. Created as part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the https://haf.vhmml.org/ (HMML Authority File) is an open-access database that will support librarians and scholars around the world to recognize previously unknown contributors to manuscripts; differentiate authors and texts that had been treated homogeneously; reunited separated materials; and trace the migration of handwritten texts across religious traditions and geographic, political, and linguistic divides. For more information, consult: www.HMML.org.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
It’s not all flowers and chocolates—check out this History Stories entry from history.com. The web link says it all: https://www.history.com/news/historys-oldest-known-valentine-was-written-in-prison
For ongoing digital updates from the Medieval (academic) world, check out #medievaltwitter, #shakeRace, and #raceB4Race.
For more information, please join the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Group: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mems and see our website: www.mems.umbc.edu
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Medieval and Early Modern Studies Newsletter 11.16.21
The MEMS monthly e-newsletter shares information about events, conferences, calls for papers, student and faculty work in the field, and digital resources that enrich our understanding of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. If you have questions about the minor, get in touch with Co-Directors Professor Amy Froide (froide@umbc.edu) and Professor Susan McDonough. If you have any items you would like to share in the newsletter, please send them to Laurel Bassett at lburgg1@umbc.edu by the 13th of each month.
MEMS EVENTS
Wednesday, December 1, 12:15 PM, Online. Did You Know the Aeneid Has a Sequel? Renaissance Addendum! an installment of Mini-MEMS Lunch and Learns
Mini-MEMS Lunch and Learns are opportunities for professors working in Medieval and Early Modern Studies to informally share their work through brief presentations followed by Q and A sessions. Our December session will be led by Professor Timothy Phin in Ancient Studies.
Did You Know the Aeneid Has a Sequel? Renaissance Addendum!
Modern students of Latin have often felt that the 12th book of the Aeneid ends on an abrupt note. Maffeo Vegio, a poet of the 15th century, agreed. He penned an addendum to Vergil’s poem, “completing” the work, and securing for himself quite a bit of fame. This talk is an exploration of the Aeneid’s “future.” We will look at Vegio’s work, his life, and the fervor for Vergil in the Renaissance.
Join on Webex:
ID:
26203034434
Password: 6TNikeYJf49
Access code: 2620 303 4434
*Did you miss our last Mini-MEMS: Law and Order in Ancient Rome and Beyond? Weep no more—you can now catch it on our website: www.mems.umbc.edu and a special thank you to Dr. Molly-Jones Lewis, Ancient Studies for such a great presentation.
Stay tuned for more on our next virtual Mini-MEMS Lunch and Learn in February.
MEMS SPRING COURSE OFFERINGS NOW AVAILABLE
The MEMS spring course offerings are now posted. You can access them through our myUMBC page (Medieval and Early Modern Studies Group), our website: www.mems.umbc.edu or by contacting Laurel Bassett: lburgg1@umbc.edu for a pdf. With offerings from Ancient Studies, Art, English, Gender and Women’s Studies, History, Latin and Music, there are many ways to get involved and work your way towards your minor.
ON CAMPUS EVENTS
Tuesday, November 30, 7:30-8:30 PM, Online. The Department of English’s course, “Shakespeare: Text and Performance” hosts Kate Eastwood Norris, Guest Lecturer
Kate Eastwood Norris, an actor, will discuss her work on a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Kate Eastwood Norris is an award winning AEA actor with over 25 years of equity regional theater credits. She also directs and teaches extensively at universities and theaters across the United States. She holds a Masters in Humanities and Creativity from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Humanities and an MFA in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University with an emphasis on Comedy and its role in culture. To attend, please email Dr. Michele Osherow: mosherow@umbc.edu for a Zoom link. These requests should be made by 5 PM the day prior to the event.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Thursday, November 18, 4:30 PM, Online. The Folger Institute presents: Open Session for John Locke and England’s Empire Seminar
This virtual conversation opens a scholarly virtual weekend seminar, John Locke and England’s Empire, sponsored by the Folger Institute Center for the History of British Political Thought. John Locke’s reputation is today Janus-faced. For many, he remains the godparent of liberalism and democracy, an honorary Founding Father of the American Revolution. For others, he embodies the entanglement of early liberalism with empire, a theorist of colonial constitutionalism, indigenous expropriation, and Atlantic slavery. How should intellectual historians and political theorists face the challenge of the ongoing ‘postcolonial turn’ in Locke scholarship? Professors Mark Goldie and Vicki Hsueh use Locke’s biography and the colonial archive to re-think conceptual categories, interpretative norms, and disciplinary conventions in both political theory and the history of political thought. To register: https://www.folger.edu/events/open-session-for-john-locke-and-england-s-empire-seminar?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FolgerInstituteResearchBulletin%3ANovember2021&utm_content=version_A&promo=
Thursday, December 9, 5:30-6:30 PM, Online. Walters Art Gallery Presents: Object Focus: Archangel Michael Ivory
The Walter’s Archangel Michael is a rare and luxurious work of art that embodies the rich interconnections of art, religion, conquests, and commerce between Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas during the 17th century. This ivory sculpture is now on view for the first time in almost 40 years. Dr. Florina “Nina” Capistrano-Baker, Consulting Curator of the Ayala Museum, Dany Chan, Associate Curator of Asian Art at the Walters and Julie Lauffenburger, the Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of Conservation, Collections and Technical Research at the Walters will discuss the history, travel, and care of the ivory statue. For information about how to view the program, see: https://thewalters.org/event/archangel-ivory/
Thursday, January 14, 12 PM Central Time, Online. The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies presents: Race in the Museum: Representing the Diversity of the Early Modern World, a Race in Dialogue Program
This session features curators Stephanie Schrader of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and Heather Hughes of the Davis Museum, Wellesley College in conversation about their own curatorial work that engages with Renaissance and Baroque materials representing people across the globe. What is the role of the curator, as both a scholar and public humanist, in the field of premodern critical race studies today? How do exhibitions today engage with different communities and audiences? This program is free and open to the public, but registration in advance is required. To register, consult: https://www.newberry.org/01142021-race-museum-representing-diversity-early-modern-world?bblinkid=255409951&bbemailid=35143138&bbejrid=2142625877
PUBLICATIONS
Congratulations to Dr. McDonough on Her New Article! Check out her publication in Gender and History
This is Dr. McDonough’s first publication on her new project on prostitutes in the medieval Mediterranean with more still to come. Based in archival research from Barcelona, Marseille, Valencia and Palermo, this article argues for a reconsideration of the gendering of the medieval Mediterranean. It focuses on prostitutes and their movement to and from Mediterranean port cities and queries how they used the institutions of the law courts and the notariat to integrate themselves into the everyday workings of the city. The article concludes with a call to rethink whose movement counts in the medieval Mediterranean when scholars think of the region as a whole. Access the article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.12574
PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
Moravian Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Dec 4, 2021.
This in-person conference will be held on Moravian’s campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. They welcome contributions from students in explorations of connections to the period between approx.. 500 C.E. and 1800 C.E. These contributions could take the form of papers, panels, poster presentations or artistic performances. Registration and proposal submissions will open October 1 and be handled via the conference website. The conference will also feature a display of illuminated medieval manuscripts and an early-music concert. For more information, consult www.moravian.edu/medieval or email jrblack@moravian.edu or sandybardsley@moravian.edu.
DIGITAL RESOURCES
History, storytelling and escape from slavery in 17th and 18th Century London. This digital anthology combines art and research to reimagine stories of London’s runaways, showing African and South Asian people to have been present in London in the early modern era, challenging their enslavers and running away into the City of London, eager to find better and freer lives. This anthology includes the historical research of Professor Simon Newman and Dr. Peggy Brunache, poets Abena Essah, Gboyega Odubanjo, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Momtaza Mehri, Memoona Zahid and artists Tasia Graham and Olivia Twist.
“The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Medieval Studies-A Global Digital Medievalist Symposium” from the Medieval Academy of America. Recorded May 24, 2021, this presentation from a worldwide Digital Symposium focused on Digital Medieval Studies in the Americas, centers the importance of images and imaging for medievalists working on the western side of the Atlantic. https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/DigitalMedievalStudies
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library Creates New Database to Assist Scholars of Understudied Manuscript Traditions
Because of HMML’s focus on materials historically underrepresented in western scholarship, the scale of HMML’s collections, and its investment in preservation technology, HMML is uniquely positioned to build the scholarly infrastructure that currently does not exist for many traditions. This service-focused scholarship will in turn broaden the impact of digital preservation efforts around the world. Created as part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the https://haf.vhmml.org/ (HMML Authority File) is an open-access database that will support librarians and scholars around the world to recognize previously unknown contributors to manuscripts; differentiate authors and texts that had been treated homogeneously; reunited separated materials; and trace the migration of handwritten texts across religious traditions and geographic, political, and linguistic divides. For more information, consult: www.HMML.org.
Enjoy this mildly ludicrous thread on sea monsters from #medieval twitter! https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1459863301874196483
For ongoing digital updates from the Medieval (academic) world, check out #medievaltwitter, #shakeRace, and #raceB4Race.
MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM
Syracuse University offers a Master of Arts program devoted to the study of Italian Renaissance art, where most of the study is conducted in Italy. It offers highly motivated students an opportunity to carry out advanced, original research grounded in the first-hand examination of art, architecture, and urban settings. Students are offered various levels of financial support, including full tuition fellowships and partial tuition scholarships. The Florence MA Program’s focus is early modern Italian art and students are encouraged to think broadly about the ways in which the visual culture of the period relates to larger Mediterranean and global historical and artistic contexts. The application deadline is January 15. For more information about the Program, go to: https://thecollege.syr.edu/art-music-histories/graduate-programs-art-history/florence-ma-renaissance-art/
For more information, please join the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Group: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mems and see our website: www.mems.umbc.edu
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ANCS 350 Race and Ethnicity in Greco-Roman Antiquity Dr. Edward Nolan Tues/Thurs 5:30-6:45 PM
ART 216 Visual Culture in Context: Ancient Empires-18th Cent Dr. Kimberly Anderson
(2 sections) Tues OR Thurs 4:30-7 PM Counts towards: Arts/Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP)
Focused study of six or seven specific, momentous periods in the history of world art dating from prehistory to the mid-eighteenth century. By studying selected moments in the history of world art in some depth, students will gain an awareness of how art objects and visual culture both shape and represent societies and their histories.
ART 329/HIST 358/ART 429 Art and Society in the Renaissance Dr. James Magruder
Tues/Thurs 11:30-12:45 PM Counts towards: Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP)
An analysis of the relationship between the art of the Renaissance and its social and economic background. The course traces the development of Renaissance art, changes in style and content, and the emergence of new art forms. It focuses on the social characteristics of artists and patrons, the organization of the arts, their status and function, and the evolution of an art market.
ENG 304 British Literature: Marlowe to Milton Dr. Raphael Falco Tues/Thurs 8:30-9:45 AM This course covers a chronological range of British drama and poetry from the late 16th-century to the mid-17th. Our aim is to chart the extraordinary development of literary production in the century between Christopher Marlowe and John Milton. The class will analyze such genres as tragedy, comedy, love lyric, sonnet, and pastoral elegy. Authors will include Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Lanyer, Cary, Donne, Jonson, Wroth, and Milton.
ENGL 315 Studies in World Literature: Race and Gender in Premodern Literature Dr. Kathryn McKinley Tues/Thurs 2:30-3:45 PM
This course will explore the ways in which premodern authors and institutions defined and represented ethnicities, race, cultural difference, and gender. Topics will include travel narratives, miscegenation, Africans in Renaissance Europe, ethnography, women authors, masculinities, conduct books, and early modern letters. Texts: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Arthurian romance Parzival; John Mandeville, Travels; Geraldine Heng's The Invention of Race in the Middle Ages; Ben Jonson's The Masque of Blacknesse and The Masque of Beauty; Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance; the Paston letters; Geoggroi de Charny; A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry; and Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies.
ENGL 351 Studies in Shakespeare: Underread Shakespeare Dr. Michele Osherow Tues/Thurs 4:00-5:15 PM
Do you know Prince Hamlet but not Prince Pericles? Heard tell of King Lear but not of King John? Encountered the crossdressing Viola, but never knew Julia dressed as a boy? This course examines Shakespeare plays that, according to a recent poll in the UK, are ‘underground’ and ‘beyond the scope’ of popular knowledge when it comes to the Bard’s works. The class is designed for those interested in and/or curious about Shakespeare, and who are keen for a glimpse beyond the plays whose titles are too familiar. If you are a reader who leans towards plots unpredictable, characters that smack of complexity, and all those twisty human bits that have made Shakespeare a consistent presence on literary and theatrical scenes for over 400 years, then these texts deserve your attention! The course will draw heavily from Shakespeare’s late works—plays which are nothing short of sensational on the contemporary stage.
ENGL 410 Medieval Green Worlds: Between Grendel and Antipastoral Dr. Kathryn McKinley Tues/Thurs 1:00-2:15 PM
How did the Middle Ages understand and (de)construct “nature”? Forests and moors, seen as violent, lawless places inhabited by monsters and outlaws, were increasingly regulated. Medieval romances’ gardens ranged from idealized settings to sites of rape and sexual assault. The countryside, often an aristocratic retreat, also told the story of appropriation, enclosure, and peasant labor. We will ask how medieval readers imagined and enacted their relationships to the natural world. Works include Anglo-Saxon elegies and Beowulf; Romance of the Rose; Boccaccio’s courtly love romances; Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess; Chretien de Troyes’ Arthurian romances; and Ecocriticism: The New Critical Idiom. Instructor Consent Required.
ENGL 464 “Unruly Members”: Early Modern Women’s Writing Dr. Michele Osherow Tues/Thurs 7:10-8:25 PM
In the early modern period, a virtuous woman was praised for ‘ruling her tongue that unruly member’. But while the prescript for female silence was reinforced at every turn, many women recognized the power of the word, and they applied rhetorical arts of all sorts to make themselves heard. This course examines texts by and about women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Many of these women’s names have gone unrecognized, and their voices unacknowledged for several hundred years. We will consider women’s writings across a variety of genres including life-writing, poetry, prose, drama, prophecy and dream visions, religious texts, cookbooks, treatises, letters, and mother’s legacies. We will explore women’s texts in the broadest sense, including needlework and other samples of material culture. We will investigate modes of female communication and pay particular attention to debates on the nature of women in the raging querelle des femmes. You must complete any 300 level English Course with a grade of C or better.
HIST 374/GWST 374 European Women’s History 1200-1750 Dr. Amy Froide
Tues/Thurs 1:00-2:15PM Counts towards: Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP)
An examination of the status and roles of women in European society throughout the Middle Ages and Early Modern period. Through a mixture of secondary readings, primary sources, and film, this course investigates ideas and women and gender as well as the actions and ideas of women in the past. Topics include women and religion, women and work, women’s household and familial roles, women and sexuality, women and politics, and women’s education and writings. Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level social science course or junior/senior status.
HIST 463/JDST 463/RLST 463 Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages Dr. Susan McDonough Mon/Wed 1:00-2:15 PM
This course examines moments of contact and conflict between the three major monotheistic faiths of the medieval period: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Topics will include an examination of the scriptural foundations of the three faiths and the influence on topics such as law, violence, conversion, ritual, and legend. The course provides an overview of how individuals and leadership within the three faiths interacted with each other. Recommended Preparation: HIST 100 or HIST 110, or HIST 111 of JDST 100 or RLST 100 or 200-level course, and junior/senior standing.
LATIN 102 Dr. Molly Jones-Lewis Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs 11:00-11:50 AM Counts towards: Language (GFR)
Continuation of LATN 101. You must have completed LATN 101 with a C or better or two years of high school Latin.
OR
LATIN 102 Dr. Edward Nolan Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs 9:00-9:50 AM Counts towards: Language (GFR)
Continuation of LATN 101. You must have completed LATN 101 with a C or better or two years of high school Latin.
MUSC 307.07: Collegium Musicum (Early Music Ensemble) Mon/Wed 2:30-3:45 PM 1 Credit Course The UMBC Collegium Musicum is a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring and performing European-styled vocal and instrumental music from Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750. Under the direction of Dr. Lindsay Johnson, members meet in collaborative ensembles of various sizes to study and perform period vocal and instrumental music. Students are given the opportunity to sing in a variety of conventional and extended vocal styles, and to play recorder, crumhorn, racket, shawm, organ, harpsichord, drum, guitar, and Baroque violin, viola, and cello. Emphasis is given to the study of musical style, performance practice, singing and playing one-on-a-part, and excellence in ensemble performance. General musical background and informal audition are required; style and specific period instruments are taught within the ensemble.
To satisfy the MEMS Minor, students must complete 6 courses (18 credits) with a “C” or better. You must take 2 English courses, 2 History Courses, and 2 Courses in any of the following: Africana Studies, Ancient Studies, Art, French, Music, Latin, or Philosophy.
For a complete list of courses that satisfy the MEMS Minor, consult the website: mems.umbc.edu.
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