The 35 Medieval and Renaissance courses listed below are being offered in the spring and count toward the major and minor. See Program Requirements for distribution requirements among the four course-study areas. Students should meet with the Director of Undergraduate Studies for advising before determining a course schedule. Seniors graduating this spring must meet with the DUS to make sure that all requirements for the major or minor will be met before graduation.

For course descriptions, see the Online Course Synopsis Handbook. Not all departments have put up or will put up course descriptions in the Online Course Synopsis. Course descriptions, along with other information for registering (including pre-Curriculum 2000 and Curiculum 2000 designations), can be found in the MEDREN section of ACES. Note that there will also be a link to a course's cross-listing in another department, where you might find other information on the course.

Course descriptions can also be found in the current Undergraduate Bulletin, where over 120 Medieval and Renaissance courses are listed. When looking in the Bulletin for course descriptions, keep in mind that full course descriptions are given in one place only (to save space)—in the section of the course's home department. For example, MEDREN 144B, Renaissance and Baroque Art History (cross-listed with Art History 144B) is listed among the MEDREN courses, but its full description is to be found in the Art History section of the Bulletin.

All the courses listed below may be taken toward degrees in both Medieval and Renaissance Studies and in the departments to which MEDREN courses are cross-listed.

To read about faculty teaching the courses below, go to Faculty Profiles.

For all sorts of valuable information on registration, see Trinity College's Summary of Important Information about Requirements, Registration, and Other Academic Regulations.

Course Synopsis / Undergraduate Bulletin / Faculty

100.01. Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Medieval Drama (Also ENGLISH 173.02, THEATRST 129.01)
Beckwith
MW 2:50 - 4:05

100.02. Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Anglican Spiritual Theology (Also Divinity School HISTTHEO 144.01)
Winner
T 8:30 – 11:00

100S.01. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Medieval Communities (Also HISTORY 196S.01)
Morrow
MW 1:15 - 2:30

100S.02. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: The Materiality of Literature (Also ROMST 150S.02, ROMST 200S.02, LIT 150S.02)
Eisner
TTH 4:25 - 6:55

100S.03. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Violence and Religion in the Middle Ages (Also HISTORY 106S.03, RELIGION 185S.01)
Dubois
WF 11:40 – 12:55

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100S.04. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: The Latin Epistle--Heloise and Abelard (Also LAT 104S.01)
Woods
TTH 2:50 - 4:05

100S.05. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Music (Also MUSIC 190S.01)
Gilliam
TTH 1:15 - 2:30

100S.06. Spanish Literature: Don Quijote, The First Modern Novel (ALSO SPANISH 142S.02)
Picherot
Intensive six-week course from Jan. 14 to Feb. 25, TTH 10:05 - 12:05

111B.01. Introduction to Spanish Literature I (Also SPANISH 111.01)
Garcia-Reidy
WF 11:40 - 12:55

112A.01. Gothic Cathedrals (Also ARTHIST 110.01)
Bruzelius
TTH 10:05 - 10:55

Course Synopsis / Undergraduate Bulletin / Faculty

112A.02. Lab: Gothic Cathedrals (Also ARTHIST 110.01L)
Bruzelius
F 10:20 - 11:10

119.01. Medieval Philosophy (Also PHIL 119.01)
Schmaltz
TTH 2:50 - 4:05

121A.01. Medieval English Literature to 1500: Heresy in the Middle Ages (Also ENGLISH 121A.01)
Somerset
TTH 8:30 - 9:45

129C.01. Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances (Also ENGLISH 129C.01, THEATRST 108.01)
Quilligan
TTH 1:15 - 2:30

137.01. Art in Renaissance Italy (Also ARTHIST 144B.01)
Galletti
MW 10:05 - 11:20

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145A.01. Milton (Also ENGLISH 145.01)
Price
TTH 11:40 - 12:55

146A.01. Islamic Civilization (Also CULANTH 147.01, HISTORY 101G.01, RELIGION 146.01, ICS 141A.01)
Hassan
WF 10:05 - 11:20

156A.01. Reformation of the 16th Century (Also HISTORY 156A.01, RELIGION 158.01, ICS 181H.01)
Hillerbrand
TTH 10:05 - 11:20

157A.01. Rise of Modern Science through Newton (Also HISTORY 157A.01)
Miller
TTH 11:40 - 12:55

172S.01. Romance of King Arthur (Also GERMAN 172S.001)
Rasmussen
MW 4:25 - 5:40

Course Synopsis / Undergraduate Bulletin / Faculty

183.01. Shakespeare after 1600 (Also ENGLISH 144.01, THEATRST 110.01)
Porter
TTH 11:40 - 12:55

200S.01. Advanced Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Space (Also ARTHIST 288S.01)
Galletti
M 1:15 - 3:45

200S.02. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Old Norse (Also GERMAN 298S.01)
Keul
TTH 4:25 - 5:40

200S.03. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: When Women Ruled the World: The Problem of Female Sovereignty in the Renaissance (Also ENGLISH 271BS.03, DS2)
Quilligan
TH 10:05 - 12:35

202C.01. Modern European Christianity (Also Divinity School CHURHST 14)
Pak
TTH 2:50 - 3:45

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204.01. The Early Origenist Tradition (Also RELIGION 204.01)
Clark
TTH 2:00 - 3:15

206.01. Medieval Christian Mystical Tradition: Daring Mystical Theologians: Meister Eckhart, Marguerite Porete, Jacopone da Todi, Gregory Palamas, and Luis de Leon in Their Historical Context (Also Divinity School CHURHST 206)
Keefe
T 6:30 - 9:00

223B.1. Music of the Renaissance: William Byrd and the Instrumental Tradition (Also MUSIC 223.01)
McCarthy
W 3:05 - 5:35

233S.01. Live Images: Ancient and Medieval Representations of the Divine (Also RELIGION 233S.01, CLST 240S.01, VISUALST 233S.01, ARTHIST 232S.01)
Wharton
M 7:15 - 9:45

236A.01. Luther and the Reformation in Germany (Also Divinity School HISTTHEO 236)
Pak
F 8:30 - 11:00

Course Synopsis / Undergraduate Bulletin / Faculty

237S.01. Topics in Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture: The Mendicant Revolution (Also ARTHIST 236S.01, ENGLISH 212S.01)
Bruzelius and Somerset
T 1:15 - 3:45

245S.02. Art and Art Markets (Also ARTHIST 245S.01, ECON 244S.01, VISUALST 252AS.01)
Van Miegroet
W 7:15 - 9:45

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Other courses being taught that do not have a MEDREN cross-listing but can count toward the major or minor:

HISTORY 104.10. The Later Middle Ages
Malegam
TTH 1:15 - 2:30

HISTORY 105.01. Inquisition and Society in the Early Modern World
Martin
TH 7:15 - 9:30

HISTORY 105S.06. The Crusades and Conflicts in the Modern Middle East
Bell
MW 10:05 - 11:20

HISTORY 196S.12. The Black Death and Medieval Society
Malegam
TH 4:25 - 6:55

Inter-Institutional Registration Agreement

For those who are not aware of the opportunity, Duke and UNC have a reciprocal registration arrangement that allows undergraduate students at one university to take courses at the other. For a list of courses being offered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, see the website for UNC's program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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 participate in registration via the inter-institutional registration process:

Duke University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina State University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

For further information on rules and registration procedures, go to the Inter-Institutional Registration Agreement website.

Duke/UNC direct bus:
A new Duke/UNC direct bus, funded by the Robertson Scholars Program, departs frequently and makes traveling between the two campuses easier than ever before. See the Robertson Scholars website for the departure and arrival schedule for this bus.