 May 25–June 2, 2009
Discover the magnificent architecture, riveting history, and stunning countryside of the Normandy region of France. From your base in the luxurious seaside resort of Cabourg, travel to Bayeux and view the 200-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry. In Caen, listen to an overview of the entire D-Day Operation at the Peace Memorial. Admire the glorious eighth-century Abbey Church on the granite island of Mont-St.-Michel and meander along the streets in the charming port of Honfleur. Learn about Operation Overlord during an excursion to the sites that were so pivotal to the success of the Allied effort: Arromanches, Omaha Beach, and Ponte du Hoc, and visit the Normandy American Cemetery. The many facets of Normandy are yours to explore on this travel adventure encompassing the history, beauty, and culture of this fascinating region.
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 Lecturer: Prof. Maureen B. McCann Boulton
Prof. Maureen Boulton is a medievalist with particular interests in the areas of religious literature, textual criticism, manuscript studies, and the relations between lyric poetry and medieval romance. She has edited or written several books, and is currently editing a collection of texts on Passion devotion in Anglo-Norman England, and is completing a study of apocryphal lives of Christ in Old and Middle French titled Pious Fictions. In addition to making many research trips to French libraries, she has lived in France for two years as the director of SUNDEF, Notre Dame’s foreign study program in Angers. Prof. Boulton is a professor of French with a B.A. from the College of New Rochelle, 1970; M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, 1972; Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, 1976; and M.Litt. from the University of Oxford, 1980.
$$ Approximately $2,795 per person, plus airfare and V.A.T., based on double occupancy
Activity level: Leisure
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