Overview

Program Committee

John Eldevik (History)

Bonnie Krueger (French and Francophone Studies)

Katherine Terrell (Literature and Creative Writing)

Margie Thickstun, chair (Literature and Craetive Writing)

Mackenzie Cooley (History)

The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary minor consisting of five courses taken within at least three disciplines (Classics, French, Hispanic Studies, History, Literature and Creative Writing, Music). One of the five courses must be a history course and two of the courses must be taken in the same department.

We offer one dedicated Medieval and Renaissance Studies course: MDRST-223, Gender and Violence in the Middle Ages.

For complete information about the courses listed below, including prerequisites, enrollment limits and when a course is offered, consult the full descriptions under the appropriate departments.

ART HISTORY

ARTH-282 Art in Renaissance Italy

ASIAN/HISTORY/RELIGIOUS STUDIES

ASNST-209 Islamic History and Culture

ASNST-211 Islamic Spirituality, Mysticism, and Devotion

ASNST-228 History of Iran

ASNST-256 Islam and Modernity in South Asia

ASNST-329 Art of Devotion: Visual and Material Culture of Islam

CLASSICS

CLASC-286 The Byzantine Empire

LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING

LIT-156 Shakespeare and Film

LIT-221 Introduction to Old English

LIT-222 Chaucer: Gender and Genre

LIT-228 Milton

LIT-227 Shakespeare

LIT-293 The Making of English

LIT-323 Other Worlds in Middle English Literature

LIT-337 Medieval Women and the Written Word

LIT-339 Global Shakespeare

LIT-368 The Medium is the Message

LIT-412 Public Play

LIT-439 Race and Nation in the Middle Ages

FRENCH

FRNCH-406 Comic Visions

HISPANIC STUDIES

HSPST-330/HSPST-430 Early Modern Spanish Drama

HISTORY

HIST-126 Conquest of the Americas

HIST-146 Christianity to 1500

HIST-150 Myth and History in the Middle Ages

HIST-160 Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean

HIST-202 Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

HIST-286 The Byzantine Empire

HIST-320 Power and Lordship in Medieval Europe

HIST-326 Rebels, Radicals and Reformers

HIST-339 Columbus’s Library

HIST-351 Race, Science, and the Origins of the Modern World

ITALIAN

ITALN-233 Saints and Sinners in Dante’s Inferno

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

MDRST-223 Gender and Violence in the Middle Ages

MUSIC

MUSIC-220: From Chant to Bach