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MDVL 1450: Heroes and Villains of the Middle Ages

Medieval 1450, Heroes and Villains of the Middle Ages, is an interdisciplinary course designed to introduce beginning students to the medieval roots of the individual, social, and institutional ideals and values of modern Western culture as they are expressed and exemplified in the images of medieval heroes and their counterparts. Medieval 1450 currently meets the requirements for Distribution Area II, Humanities, of the General Education Curriculum.

Core Course Materials

• Robert Harrison, trans., The Song of Roland (New York: Mentor, 1970).
• Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, trans. Burton Raffel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987).
• Einhard and Notker the Stammerer, Two Lives of Charlemagne, trans. Lewis Thorpe (New York: Penguin, 1969).
• Seamus Heaney, trans., Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (New York: Norton, 2001).
• C. Warren Hollister and Judith Bennett, Medieval Europe: A Short History, 10th ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2005).