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CMEMS sponsors or co-sponsors a wide range of workshops and research groups that cohere into a stimulating program of opportunities for students and faculty to engage in focused discussion and debate

• Medieval Matters
• CMEMS Workshop
• Renaissances Focal Group
• Republic of Letters Workgroup
• Theoretical Perspectives of the Middle Ages
• Textual Orientations
• The Material Imagination Workshop
• Reading Groups

Medieval Journeys: Tales of Devotion and Discovery (DLCL 123, ARTHIST 105B)

This course explores the experience and imagination of medieval journeys through interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and skills-based approaches. As a foundations class, this survey of medieval culture engages with an array of written texts from the period. Narratives of medieval journeys are studied across a wide range of categories, including pilgrimages, crusades, quests, and sagas. The journey as metaphor, along with the resulting and very real cultural interactions, will provide a main focus for examining this rich tradition of literature. Students will have the opportunity to produce a creative project that brings medieval ideas about travel into dialogue with modern conceptions.