In my literature and culture courses, my students frequently practice making medieval recipes, books, and other items that they see featured in literary and historical texts. This grounds them in a better understanding of society and literary characters. See Medieval Creativity for some of the examples. See my CV for publications about experiential learning. Check back her for photographs of student projects.
Courses taught
French/Humanities 3412: Making the Medieval Manuscript. This course will focus on the paleography, manuscript leaves, and facsimile collection in Briggs Library to teach students to touch, explore, and use every part that makes up a medieval book, whether arotulus, scroll, or codex. Students will work with color reproductions of medieval manuscripts in French, (Latin, Italian , Arabic, Spanish, and Hebrew) to learn about the linguistic, visual, and manual intricacies of thousand-year old texts. Students engage their language skills by reading and translating small parts of individual pages of thousand-year-old texts. They gain practical skills of safely manipulating authentic medieval artifacts. See the website https://makingthemedievalbook.weebly.com/ for this class. Some of my students made a page as part of their first manuscript-studying experience: manuscriptmelodiesofmorris.weebly.com.
French 3408. Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Quests, Quails, and Custards. Food in Life and Literature. Spices, game, and chocolate trace the real and imagined movement of European people in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period in literary and historical sources. Make authentic recipes and read authors, including Marco Polo, from many genres of literature. Meets Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) requirement in French major.
French 3002: Third-year French course. Civilization and Composition: Tools for Studying the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Study Paris as the center of society, culture, religion, and literature from 1100-1300, while also refining the ability to write academic papers and engaging in academic discussions in French. Read primary texts about religion, mythology, and Classical epics that form the foundation of much of medieval French literature. Meets Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) requirement in French major.
French 1803: Intellectual Community: Fairies & Warriors: Medieval Legends and Fictions. Students learn about different primary and secondary sources in conjunction with various genres of medieval fiction. Introductions to various languages, library sources, and historical context inform the study of texts, as well as what made someone a fairy, a knight, or a warrior in literature between the 11th and 15th centuries.
French 3408. Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Quests, Quails, and Custards. Food in Life and Literature. Spices, game, and chocolate trace the real and imagined movement of European people in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period in literary and historical sources. Make authentic recipes and read authors, including Marco Polo, from many genres of literature. Meets Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) requirement in French major.
French 3002: Third-year French course. Civilization and Composition: Tools for Studying the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Study Paris as the center of society, culture, religion, and literature from 1100-1300, while also refining the ability to write academic papers and engaging in academic discussions in French. Read primary texts about religion, mythology, and Classical epics that form the foundation of much of medieval French literature. Meets Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) requirement in French major.
French 1803: Intellectual Community: Fairies & Warriors: Medieval Legends and Fictions. Students learn about different primary and secondary sources in conjunction with various genres of medieval fiction. Introductions to various languages, library sources, and historical context inform the study of texts, as well as what made someone a fairy, a knight, or a warrior in literature between the 11th and 15th centuries.
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