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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Fall 2022 |
| Registration ID | SPANH230A001 |
| Course Title | Medieval and Golden Age Spain: Literature, Culture, and Society |
| Credit | 0.00 |
| Department | Spanish |
| Instructor | Rodriguez-Rincon,Luis |
| Times and Days | TTh 01:00pm-02:30pm
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| Room Location | STO102 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2296 This course examines culturally significant literary texts produced in the Iberian Peninsula in a period that witnessed both convivencia and ethnic violence among the three key religious cultures—Christian, Islamic, and Jewish –– as well as the colonization of the Americas. Among the topics to be examined: the flowering of Hebrew and Arabic poetry in both Islamic and Christian kingdoms; the reality and the myth of Reconquista (‘Christian Reconquest’) and the Castilian epic; the origins of drama, lyric poetry, and novels in Spanish; the exploration and colonization of the Americas; the representation of animals in literature and culture; as well as genders, love, and sexuality in the first modern global empire. The course fulfills the “pre-1898” requirement. This course is conducted in Spanish. Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: HU, A) |
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