1. Introduction to Memory Studies: Approaching Pre-Modern Sources through Contemporary Theories
2. Building Memory as Architecture: Mnemonics in the Ancient World
3. Techniques of Memory: Mnemonics & Medieval Contemplation
4. Building Memory through Architecture I: Mnemonics & the Monastic Mind
5. Pilgrimage and Sites of Memory I: Loca Sancta & Lieux de Memoire
6. Pilgrimage and Sites of Memory II: Imagined Topographies
7. Corporeal Memory: Violence & Mnemonics
8. Memory & Performance I: Homiletics
9. Memory & Performance II: Song
10. Remembering the Saints: Relics
11. Commemoration of the Dead
12. Exam Review
13. Midterm Exam
14. Research Paper Workshop
15. Time, Memory, & Gender: Remembering Women
16. Memory Schemata: Genealogies
17. Abstract Presentations & Group Discussion
18. Building Memory through Architecture II: Spolia
19. Saints & Civics: Collective Memory & the Medieval City
20. Self-Representation: Social Display & Commemoration in the Late Medieval Church
21. Theorizing Memory in Later Byzantium
22. Word & Image: Memory Treatises in the Fifteenth Century
23. Techniques of Memory II: Mnemonics & Renaissance Intellectualism
24. Cross-Temporal Connections & Collective Identity: Memories of the Middle Ages
25. Research Paper Presentations
26. Research Paper Presentations
27. Research Paper Presentations
28. Exam Review
Final Exam
There is no textbook for this course. Students will be assigned bi-weekly readings that will be made available through the library. A full list of readings will be provided at the start of the course.