The sailing of St Brendan

The sailing of St Brendan

Course Description: The Navigatio Sancti Brendani was one of the most widely-disseminated texts of the Middle Ages, circulating in Latin and many vernacular languages. Purporting to be the account of St Brendan the Navigator's voyage west from Ireland, it relates his many adventures, including his celebration of Mass on the back of a whale and (so the legend goes) his discovery of North America. 

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. EST

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.

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