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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2023 |
Registration ID | HARTB310001 |
Course Title | Topics in Medieval Art-Medieval Manuscripts |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | History of Art |
Instructor | Streiter,Nava |
Time and Days | W 02:10pm-04:00pm |
Location | |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2279 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Prerequisite: one course in History of Art at the 100- or 200-level or permission of the instructor. Enrollment preference given to majors and minors in History of Art.; Current topic description: This course explores the contents, materiality, and use of books produced during the long Middle Ages (5th-16thcenturies). Focusing on a wide range of manuscripts -- from prayer books to romances, instructional manuals, and histories -- the seminar will emphasize the special communicative power of images and texts that are bound together. It will study the physical structures of medieval codices, the developing iconographies of major image programs, and the ways in which manuscripts have been used, collected, displayed, and interpreted from the Middle Ages to the present. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach; Haverford: Humanities (HU) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 12; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Senior Major/Minor/Concentration; Junior; Sophomore. No freshmen. |
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