Academic Study Trip Burgundy, France

Burgundy, France: Culture and Society in Medieval Burgundy

France: Culture and Society in Medieval Burgundy
HI/RS/AH/HU 280 {4 credits}
Prerequisite: None
Date: May 15- June 2, 2021

This program offers students first-hand experience of living at the place of SMC’s origins in Burgundy – a 12th-century abbey – while studying medieval history and culture in its original context. Classes held every other day in Pontigny prepare students for site visits the next day to castles, churches, cathedrals, battlefields, abbeys, archeological excavations, towns and cities, museums and libraries. In this way reading, studying and exploring the material remains of this culture are integrated.

Terryl Kinder (Distinguished Visiting Professor of Fine Arts), a practicing medieval archeologist, lives in the town of Pontigny and speaks fluent French. The places the students will visit are an integral part of her research and some are not otherwise open to the public.

A brief informational meeting will be held on Thursday, Nov 5th, at 5:30 in STE 104 for the Burgundy study-abroad summer course (also live on Zoom – link to be posted).