Courses: Fall Term 2010

I. One-year MA and Two-year MA Programs

1. Mandatory Classes

Introduction to Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies [MEDS 5106] (1YMA, two-credit)
Szende, Nagy
Introduction to Multidisciplinary Graduate Studies in History [HIME 5020] (2YMA–first-year, two-credit)
Geréby, Iordachi
Academic Writing for Medievalists [MEDS 5020] (1YMA, two-credit)
Rasson
Academic Writing [HIME 5001](2YMA–first-year, two-credit)
Rasson, Lojkó
MA Thesis Seminar I [MEDS 5001] (1YMA, zero-credit, 2YMA–second-year, two credits)
Szende, Nagy
Independent Study [HIME 5025] (2YMA–first-year, two-credit; 2YMA–second-year, four-credit)
Supervisors

1.2 Topical Survey Classes, jointly convened by the Departments of Medieval Studies and History (two-credit)

2YMA–ﬁrst-year students must choose two out of three classes.

Climatic and Environmental Impacts in European History [HIME 5113]
Choyke, Rácz
Political Theology: Ancient and Modern [HIME 5112]
Geréby, Riedl
Social Distinctions [HIME 5114]
Jaritz, Karády

2. Core Classes (2hrs) plus Tutorial Elements (four-credit)

1YMA and 2YMA–second-year students: one core class required. Core classes may be chosen, without the tutorial element, as elective classes.

Crisis and Destruction in Medieval Western and Central Europe[MEDS 5421]—I
Szende, Nagy
Tutorial: accompanying [MEDS 5421]
Nagy
The Ottomans and Europeans in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period [MEDS 5259]—II, LABOS
Krstić
Tutorial: accompanying [MEDSS 5259]
Krstić
Cult of Saints as an Expression of Local, Regional and National Identity [MEDS 5722]—III
Klaniczay
Tutorial: accompanying [MS 5722]
Klaniczay
History of Material Culture [MEDS 5686]—IV, MMS
Jaritz, Choyke
Tutorial: accompanying [MEDS 5686]
Jaritz

3. Sources of Historical Studies—SHS (one-credit)

MA students: two SHS courses required per academic year. PhD students: elective.

Medieval Architecture [MEDS 5604]
Szakács
Historical Anthropology & Microhistory [MEDS 5620]
Klaniczay
Reading Medieval Texts: rhetorical, literary theoretical & discourse analytical approaches [MEDS 5621]—MMSS
Gaul

4. Elective Classes (two-credit)

Courtly Life and Chivalry in West and East [MEDS 5397]—I
Ziemann
Renaissance & Reformation [MEDS 5490]―I, III
Sebők
Renovatio Imperii or “Twilight of Empire”? The Last Centuries of Byzantium [MEDS 5982]—II, LABOS
Gaul
Introduction to the History and Exegesis of the Bible in the Medieval Periode [MEDS 5836]—III
Geréby
Magic, Science, Religion: the Origins of Western Esoteric Traditions [MEDS 5398]—III
Szőnyi
Living and Dying in the Middle Ages: Population Trends and Life Standards in a Gender Perspective [MEDS 5556] —IV
Barbiera

5.1 Source Language Training Classes (four-credit)

see http://sourcelanguages.ceu.hu (Source Language Teaching Group)

5.2 Advanced Source Language Practice & Textual Skills (two-credit)

see PhD Program, no. (II.2.2)—1YMA and 2YMA students are explicitly encouraged to attend

II. PhD Program

1. Mandatory Seminars

PhD Medieval Studies Seminar I: Postsocial History [MEDS 6015] (two-credit)
Menze, Ziemann
PhD Methodology Seminar [MEDS 6006] (two-plus-one-credit)
Gaul, Choyke
Independent Study [MEDS 6905] (four-credit)
Supervisors

2.1 Elective Research Classes (two-credit)

Over the ﬁrst two years of doctoral studies, PhD students are required to attend three PhD Research Classes AND/OR Advanced Source Language & Textual Skills classes.

Memory and Oblivion [MEDS 6625]
Sebők, Ziemann
The Levant in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (with excursion) [MEDS6303]—LABOS
Menze
Translations, Appropriation and Transmission of Knowledge: Late Medieval European Thought in the Making [MEDS 6012]
Schwartz

Cross-listed

Words and Images: the Idea of History and the Mediality of (Early Modern) Culture
Szőnyi [HIST 6202]

2.2 Advanced Source Language Practice & Textual Skills (two-credit)