Description
•Core Seminar IV: Medieval
This course covers a number of important primary sources, all of them written by key authors whose work was done mainly from the early Medieval through Renaissance periods in a variety of humanistic and scientific fields. Representative authors may include such figures as St. Thomas Aquinas, Farid ud-Din Attar, Chaucer, Dante, John Scotus Eriugena, al-Farabi, al-Ghazali, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sina, Li T’ai Po, Moses Maimonides, Petrarch, Jelaluddin Rumi, Murasaki Shikibu, and Tu Fu, though assignments may vary slightly from year to year. The goal of the course is to empower students to grapple directly with accessible presentations by leading historical figures.