'Mindful meditation' is all the rage right now, but few people realize that a similar form of introspection was also extremely popular in the later Middle Ages. In fact, beginning in the thirteenth ...

The following departments and programs are closely affiliated with Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Faculty teaching MEDREN courses come from these departments, and we offer a Focus program every ...

Alyssa is a Postdoctoral Associate, teaching courses on medieval Italian literature and gender studies. Her research interests include Dante, Boccaccio, feminist thought, and women writers. She is ...

Qualified students must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.5 in the major. An honors project application, approved by the thesis advisor, should be submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies during ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies was established in 1968. Today Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke is a vibrant, cross-disciplinary humanities program that draws together faculty ...

The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is organized entirely by graduate students to promote graduate student work. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members are more than welcome to ...

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 340B Trent Hall Campus Box 90656 Durham, NC 27708 (919) 681-8883 [email protected] ...

A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past. This book traces the history of botanical ...

This course examines the thought of three of the most influential political writers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Francesco Guicciardini, and Benvenuto Cellini. Their ideas shaped the formation of ...

The course explores the critical analysis of the creative products of the human intellect in mystical experiences including the symbolic stories of Avicenna, al-Gazali, Ibn Tufail, Suhrawardi & Mulla ...

Examines Renaissance epic poetry in relationship to themes of exile, empire, and collective identity. Studies the generic traditions of epic and romance, practices and modes of classical imitation, ...

Under the inter-institutional registration agreement, any graduate, professional, or undergraduate student enrolled as a degree-seeking student at any of the following participating universities may ...