Focuses on communities in the Mediterranean basin and Europe (i.e., cloister, court, and city), discussing major literary texts and visual monuments associated with them and their historical context. Emphasizes tensions between tradition and innovation, Latin and vernacular, East and West, Christian and non-Christian (Jewish and Islam), sacred and secular, authority and freedom, and male and female. Prereqs., CLAS 1110 and 1120, or ENGL 2222 and 2502, or HIST 1010 and1020, or HUMN 1010 or 1020, or instructor consent. Same as MEMS 5020. Formerly MEDV 4020.