HSTRY 201A History Lecture Series Colloquium “Medieval Made Modern.” (2 cr., Th 1200PM-120PM, taught by Prof. Robin Chapman Stacey)
This 2-credit, C/NC colloquium is designed to be taken in conjunction with the History Lecture Series for Winter of 2023, “Medieval Made Modern.” As a culture, we are literally surrounded by symbols and images taken from the medieval period, as is evident from the multi-genre popularity of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Martin’s Game of Thrones.
Theologians, politicians, artists and advertisers have been reimagining the Middle Ages ever since 1500 CE, when the medieval period is usually regarded as having ended. We are the beneficiaries of literally centuries of reinterpreting the period and its inhabitants—to such an extent indeed that the Middle Ages to which we are responding often bears little resemblance to what the medieval persons in question would recognize as their own experience.
Further information about the Lecture Series can be found here.