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Sophomore level

The Byzantine Empire MED 205 (fa26)

  • ✔️ Byzantium: A Very Short Intro. by Peter Sarris
  • The Social History of Byzantium by John Haldon
  • A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales & Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire by Anthony Kaldellis
  • Secret History by Procopius
  • Alexiad by Anna Komnene
  • Three Byzantine Military Treatises by George T. Dennis
  • Accounts of Medieval Constantinople: The Patria by Albrecht Berger
  • Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions by Elizabeth Jeffreys

Europe from Antiquity to 1700 MED 211 (fa26)

  • The West: A New History by Grafton & Bell
  • Confessions by Augustine
  • On the Freedom of a Christian by Martin Luther
  • ✔️ The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (my highlights)
  • Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  • The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf

Judaism, Christianity & Islam: Their Emergence in Antiquity MED 246 (fa26)

  • The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha
  • The Qur’an

The New Testament & Christian Origins MED 251 (fa26)

  • The Jewish Annotated New Testament by Levine & Brettler
  • Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers by Louth & Staniforth
  • The New Testament: A Historical Intro. to the Early Christian Writings by Ehrman & Méndez

Junior level

The Nature of Old English: Select Old English Literature MED 315 (fa26)

  • A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse by Richard Hamer
  • The Unstill Ones by Miller Oberman
  • The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen
  • Intro. to Old English by Peter S. Baker

Graduate level

Middle High German Literature: An Intro. MED 508 (fa26)

  • Erec by Hartmann Von Aue
  • Nibelungenlied
  • Middle High German Verbs by Scott Shay
  • An Introduction to Middle High German by Jones & Jones

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