ISS 2291

Great Books of the Medieval World

Spring 2026
Class # 26467
CSE 0461
Tuesday, Thursday
T 11:45 AM - 1:40 PM, R 12:50 PM - 1:40 PM

Course Syllabus

Instructor

Karen Taliaferro

Associate Professor of Humanities and Undergraduate Coordinator

Karen Taliaferro is Associate Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton School. She previously taught at Arizona State University. In 2024–2025, she will be a Fulbright Fellow in Morocco, where she previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Her research interests include ancient and medieval political philosophy as well as religion and politics, with a particular emphasis on Islamic thought. Her first book, The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths (Cambridge University Press, 2019), examined the perennial conflict of divine law and human law, proposing a re-examination of ancient and medieval traditions of natural law to mitigate the conflict.

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