Overview
Program Committee
Stephanie Bahr
Mackenzie Cooley (History)
John Eldevik (History)
Katherine Terrell (Literature and Creative Writing)
Margie Thickstun, (Literature and Creative Writing), director
Laura Tillery
The goal of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program is to encourage critical understanding of the multicultural histories, literatures, and artistic traditions of the European and Arab-Islamic worlds--and the various forms of exchange, conflict, and contact between them.
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