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MVST-5350-L11- Holy Grails: Medieval, Modern, and Digital
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Lincoln Center: TR, 09:30AM - 12:30PM

Graduate Course. This seminar explores the medieval Grail legend via a disciplinary triangulation of literary criticism, medievalism, and data science. No knowledge of Old French or programming required. Participants will learn several tools of data science to ask new questions of a vast medieval corpus, which has resonated throughout the centuries. Topics will include: metalepsis and narrative structure; manuscript illuminations; text as data; manuscript image classification; and medievalist rewritings.

CRN: 16500

Instructor: Reilly, Brian
4 credits

Classes listed as either Lincoln Center or Rose Hill will meet on-campus only.

Classes listed as "Online" during Session I or II will meet synchronously online during their scheduled meeting times. Students in different time zones should plan accordingly. Session III online courses are asynchronous (exceptions are noted in course descriptions).

Hybrid courses will meet in person on campus at the times indicated; additional online work will also be required.