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Direct linkGravois, John – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Recent decades have produced millions of medieval re-enactors, role players, and fantasy buffs -- and billions of dollars for the industries that fuel them. However, writes Gravois, academic medievalists have viewed this engorged popular interest not as an embarrassment of riches, but as simply embarrassment. Yet those same re-enactors, role…
Descriptors: Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Games, Fantasy
Mangan, Katherine – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article describes how a 26-panel altarpiece that once adorned a 15th-century Spanish cathedral inspired faculty members and students at Southern Methodist University to spend a semester dissecting the piece in a multidisciplinary course that featured songs, floats, videos, and painting. The course sprang out of a discussion Mark Roglan,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Elective Courses, Private Colleges, College Faculty
