Tales from Caesarius of Heisterbach

Tales from Caesarius of Heisterbach

Course Description: Like Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, Caesarius of Heisterbach's (c. 1180-c. 1240) Dialogus Miraculorum, imagined as a series of conversations between a monk and a novice, was plundered through the Middle Ages as a source of material for homiletics. Caesarius' vigorous and often humorous narrative style make him a medieval master of the short story and this reading course will read selections of his art from across the collection.

DETAILS

Level: Intermediate-Advanced Latin reading.

Textbook: Instructor will provide materials.

Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.

When
Fridays, 6:00p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Cost
$250

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Instructor

John Weretka

John Weretka holds undergraduate and graduate qualifications in medieval history, musicology, art history, theology, and Latin, and he recently completed a Master’s degree in Viking Studies with a thesis examining the ethnology of the ‘North’ from Tacitus to the Vínland sagas. He is completing a second Master's degree in Germanic Philology. He has taught extensively for Telepaideia, including courses on Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, Donizo’s Life of Matilda of Tuscany, the works of Athanasius Kircher, texts on Hell, heresy, and apocalypse in the Middle Ages, and the Itinerarium Mentis of St Bonaventure. Perennially interested in languages, current fascinations include Old English, Classical Syriac, Old Norse, and Coptic.