Courses
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A Journey into Courtly Song: Exploring the Troubadours, Trobairitz, and Trouvères
Explore the poet-composers of medieval France, the troubadours, trobairitz, and trouvères through their music, poetry, and the historical contexts that shaped their world, from glittering courts and crusades to shifting social and artistic traditions
$75
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Anointed Sounds: Exploring Political Power and Religion in Medieval Music Manuscripts
An exploration of medieval music and the intertwined powers of politics and religion. Through vivid manuscripts and wild tales of saints, kings, and even a corrupt horse, discover how song shaped faith, identity, and power.
$149
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A Voice of Her Own: Women’s Contributions to Medieval Music
Explore women’s important yet overlooked roles in medieval music as composers, performers, patrons, and muses. This course brings their stories to life through convent music, courtly traditions, and lyrical analysis.
$149
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Becoming Spain: an Introduction to the Spanish Middle Ages
An introduction to medieval Spain and what shaped this country, up to becoming a powerful empire. We learn about the religious and cultural tensions, never-ending battles, crusading, and slow unification of the country by the Catholic Monarchs.
$19.95
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Botticelli: A Medieval and Renaissance Artist
This self-paced course is an introduction to Sandro Botticelli as artist and cultural influence. Explore paintings that unravel his artistic achievements and the mix of cultural standards produced by the later Middle Ages and into the Renaissance.
$19.95
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Early Medieval Brittany A.D. 800-1100
Trace the history of Brittany in the early medieval period, from Roman occupation and withdrawal to its rebellions and split from the Frankish Empire, Viking occupation and reconquest, and eventual semi-autonomy entering the High Middle Ages.
$149