Gothic

arch of hysteria

Gothic/HNRS401H3-001 
MWF, 9:40 - 10:30 a.m., FALL 2024, in GEAR 243

Apply

Application Deadline: Sunday, March 10 at 11:59 p.m.

This Signature Seminar takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Gothic art and architecture as a cultural phenomenon. Starting with Abbot Suger’s renovation of the royal abbey church of St.‐Denis in Paris (1140) and culminating in the architectural extravagance of America’s collegiate Gothic campuses, seminar participants will tackle medieval building and medievalism from a variety of topics, including Gothic and medicine, Gothic and gender, and Gothic and empire.

Course Credit:

  • All-students: 3 hours of honors credit
  • Fulbright College:
    • Fulbright Honors humanities colloquium credit
    • Three hours of upper-level honors credit in Art History.
    • Three hours of Honors Special Topics in Art History (ARHS 4983H).
    • Three hours of upper-level honors credit in History.
    • Three hours of upper-level honors credit in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
    • Three hours of upper-level honors credit in Gender Studies.
  • College of Education and Health Professionals: Three hours of upper-level honors credit.


 About the Faculty 

 Headshot of Virginia SiegelLynda Coon, Honors College Dean. Coon’s research focuses on the history of Christianity from circa 300-900. Her first book, Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity, explored the sacred biographies of holy women in late antiquity. Her second book, Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West, focused on the ritual, spatial and gendered worlds of monks in the Carolingian period (ca. 750-987). She is currently researching a book on imagining Jesus in the Dark Ages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jared Phillips headshot Kim Sexton, associate professor of architecture, Fay Jones School of Architecture. Sexton’s research focuses on the history of architecture from late ancient Christianity through the Italian Renaissance. Her first book is an interdisciplinary study of urban architecture in Renaissance Italy. She recently edited a pioneering collection of essays on the relationship between architecture and the body. Sexton has also published articles in the top journals in architectural and art history, including the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and Art Bulletin.