| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Biblical and Patristic Materials | Reader response 1 |
| 3 | Hagiography: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages | |
| 4 | Virgin Martyrdom in the Comic Mode | |
| 5 | Transforming the Past | |
| 6 | The Trivium: Scholasticism and the Literary Curriculum | Reader response 2 |
| 7 | Medieval Rhetoric and the Power of Emotions | |
| 8 | The Self Reformed | |
| 9 | Independent Research Project Presentations | Oral reports |
| 10 | Independent Research Project Presentations | Oral reports |
| 11 | Courtly Love and Self-presentation | |
| 12 | Romance and Aristocratic Society | Write-ups of oral reports due |
| 13 | Adventures on the Celtic Fringe | |
| 14 | The Quadrivium: Science in the Medieval Curriculum | |
| 15 | The Science of Salvation | |
| 16 | Spirituality and Courtly Love | |
| 17 | Mysticism and Heresy | |
| 18 | Affective Piety and Autobiography | |
| 19 | The Disorders of Divine Love | |
| 20 | Objects of Affection | |
| 21 | Imitations of Love | |
| 22 | Disciplines of the Self | |
| 23 | Late Medieval Feminism | |
| 24 | Allegories of Power | |
| 25 | The Social Orders | |
| 26 | The Crisis of Nationalism | Final paper due |