| 1 |  Introduction |    |  
  | 2 |  Biblical and Patristic Materials |  Reader response 1 |  
  | 3 |  Hagiography: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages |    |  
  | 4 |  Virgin Martyrdom in the Comic Mode |    |  
  | 5 |  Transforming the Past |    |  
  | 6 |  The Trivium: Scholasticism and the Literary Curriculum |  Reader response 2 |  
  | 7 |  Medieval Rhetoric and the Power of Emotions |    |  
  | 8 |  The Self Reformed |    |  
  | 9 |  Independent Research Project Presentations |  Oral reports |  
  | 10 |  Independent Research Project Presentations |  Oral reports |  
  | 11 |  Courtly Love and Self-presentation |    |  
  | 12 |  Romance and Aristocratic Society |  Write-ups of oral reports due |  
  | 13 |  Adventures on the Celtic Fringe |    |  
  | 14 |  The Quadrivium: Science in the Medieval Curriculum |    |  
  | 15 |  The Science of Salvation |    |  
  | 16 |  Spirituality and Courtly Love |    |  
  | 17 |  Mysticism and Heresy |    |  
  | 18 |  Affective Piety and Autobiography |    |  
  | 19 |  The Disorders of Divine Love |    |  
  | 20 |  Objects of Affection |    |  
  | 21 |  Imitations of Love |    |  
  | 22 |  Disciplines of the Self |    |  
  | 23 |  Late Medieval Feminism |    |  
  | 24 |  Allegories of Power |    |  
  | 25 |  The Social Orders |    |  
  | 26 |  The Crisis of Nationalism |  Final paper due |