The 46 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 STORM. 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: "Shakespeare's Political Theater" (Also ENGLISH 173.02, THEATRST 129.02)
Tennenhouse
WF 10:05 - 11:20

100.02. Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Renaissance Architecture in Italy, Brunelleschi to Michelangelo" (Also ARTHST 152.01)
Galletti
WF 10:05 - 11:20

100.04. Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Europe in the High Middle Ages" (Also HISTORY 104.04)
Shatzmiller
TTH 10:05 - 11:20

100S.01. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "The Imperial City" (Also CLST 196S.01)
Boatwright
MW 11:40 - 12:55

100S.02. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Love, War, Corsairs, Empire" (Also ROMST 150S.02, ENGLISH 173S.03, LIT 150S.02, HISTORY 106S.04)
Finucci
TTH 2:50 - 4:05

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100S.03. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Medieval Film and Fiction" (Also RELIGION 185S.01, HISTORY 106S.03)
Dubois
W 3:05 - 5:35

100S.04 Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Crusades to the Holy Land" (Also HISTORY 196S.01)
Shatzmiller
TH 4:25 - 6:55

100S.06. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Medieval Literature and the Regulation of the Imaginary" (Also SPANISH 142S.03)
Bower
TTH 2:50 - 4:05

100S.07. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Shakespeare Studio" (Also THEATRST 146S.01)
O'Berski
TTH 2:50 - 4:20

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107A.01. Tudor/Stuart Britain (Also HISTORY 107A.01, ICS 180E.01)
Stern
TTH 2:50 - 4:05

111A.01. Introduction to Italian Literature I (Also ITALIAN 111.01)
Eisner
MW 2:50 - 4:05

111B.01. Introduction to Spanish Literature I (Also SPANISH 111.01)
Bower
TTH 1:15 - 2:30

117A.01. Ancient Myth in Literature (Also CLST 117.01)
Woods
TTH 10:05 - 11:20

121A.01. Medieval English Literature to 1500 (Also ENGLISH 121A.01)
Huber
TTH 8:30 - 9:45

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121C.01. Middle English, 1100 - 1500 (Also ENGLISH 121C.01)
Somerset
WF 8:30 - 9:45

133B.01. British Isles in the Middle Ages (Also HISTORY 133C.01)
Morrow
MW 11:40 - 12:55

134C.01. Jewish Mysticism (Also RELIGION 134.01, JEWISHST 106.01, ICS 141C.01)
Bland
MW 2:50 - 4:05

139AS.01. Special Topics in British Literature I: "The Ethics of Edifice" (Also ENGLISH 139AS.01)
Deagman
TTH 2:50 - 4:05

139AS.02. Special Topics in British Literature I: "Selfhood and Society in Medieval Romance" (Also ENGLISH 139AS.02)
Huber
TTH 1:15 - 2:30

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139BS.01. Special Topics in British Literature II: "Protestant Poetry in 17th- Century England" (Also ENGLISH 139BS.01)
Aers
TTH 10:05 - 11:20

139BS.02. Special Topics in British Literature II: "Love Is Not Love, Shakespeare Post 1600" (Also ENGLISH 139BS.02)
Kelley
MW 2:50 - 4:05

140BS.01. Chaucer (Also ENGLISH 140S.01)
Somerset
WF 2:50 - 4:05

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

147B.01. Magic, Religion, Science Since 1400 (Also HISTORY 147.01)
Robisheaux
MWF 1:30 - 2:20

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151A.01. Renaissance Europe, 1250 - 1550 (Also HISTORY 151A.01)
Martin
MW 1:15 - 2:30

151B.01. Topics in Literary Renaissance and Baroque: "Who Created Don Juan?" (Also SPANISH 151.01)
Greer
TTH 2:50 - 4:05

152B.01. Netherlands Art and Visual Culture, 17th - 18th Century (Also VISUALST 157.01)
Van Miegroet
MW 11:40 - 12:55

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

165S.01. Vikings and Their Literature (Also GERMAN 165S.01)
Keul
TTH 8:30 - 9:45

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166.01. Dante's Divine Comedy (Also ITALIAN 143.01, RELIGION 161G.01, HISTORY 142.01)
Eisner
MW 11:40 - 12:55

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

200.01. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "The Protestant Reformers and the Jews" (Also Divinity School CHURHST 245)
Pak
W 8:30 - 11:00

200.02. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Women and the Protestant Reformation" (Also Divinity School CHURHST 255)
Pak
M 2:30 - 5:00

200.04. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Women under Monasticism" (Also Divinity School CHURHST 265, RELIGION 206)
Keefe
M 6:30 - 9:00

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200S.02. Advanced Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Writing Life, Christine De Pizan" (Also FRENCH 200S.01)
Solterer
TTH 10:05 - 11:20

202C.01. Modern European Christianity (Also Divinity School CHURHST 14)
Steinmetz
MW 2:30 - 3:45

209S.01. Middle English Literature, 1100 to 1500: "Langland and the Late Medieval Church" (Also Divinity School HISTTHEO 220.01, ENGLISH 212S.01)
Aers
TH 2:50 - 5:20

210S.01. Topics in Renaissance Studies: "The World in Venice" (Also ITALIAN 210S.01, ARTHST 210S.01, HISTORY 299S.01)
Finucci and Martin
TTH 4:25 - 6:55

220AS.01. Society and Economy of Europe (Also HISTORY 221AS.01, ECON 221S.01)
Robisheaux
MW 4:25 - 5:40

220S.01. Shakespeare Topics: "Delivering Othello" (Also ENGLISH 220S.01)
Porter
W 4:25 - 6:55

Course Synopsis / Undergraduate Bulletin / Faculty

234A.01. Early Christian Asceticism (Also RELIGION 234.01)
Clark
TTH 1:15 - 3:15

236A.01. Luther and the Reformation in Germany (Also Divinity School HISTTHEO 236, RELIGION 236)
Steinmetz
TH 2:30 - 5:00

245S.01. 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 in Medieval & Renaissance not cross-listed but which may count toward the major and minor.

ENGLISH 90AS.06. Getting Around in the Renaissance: Travel Writing and Cultural Fantasy
Eklund
TTH 4:25 - 5:40

ENGLISH 169AS.01. Special Topics in American Literature II: "Frontier Ecologies: Discovering and Writing 'Nature' in Early American Literature"
Eklund
TTH 1:15 - 2:30

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.