The 32 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 online. 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.

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100.01. Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: “Medieval Drama” (Also ENGLISH 173.01, THEATRST 129.01)
Beckwith
MW 11:40 – 12:55

100.02. Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: “Violence in the Middle Ages” (Also HISTORY 104.10, RELIGION 185.03)
Dubois
WF 11:40 – 12:55

100S.01. Seminar in Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Also CLST 196S.01)
Davis
TTH 10:05 – 11:20

100S.02. Seminar in Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: “Music in Renaissance England” (Also MUSIC 190S)
McCarthy
TTH 1:15 - 2:30

100S.02. Seminar in Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Medieval Communities (Also HISTORY 196S)
Morrow
TTH 1:15-2:30

100S.04. Re-Imagining the Early Modern Mediterranean: Love, War, Corsairs, and Empire (Also ROMST 150S)
Finucci
TTH 1:15-2:30

111B.01. Introduction to Spanish Literature I (Also SPANISH 111.01)
Lopez
TTH 2:50 – 4:05

114.01. Aspects of Medieval Culture: “The Living Middle Ages” (Also ENGLISH 123C.01, HISTORY 116.01, CLST 139.01, ARTHST 139.01)
Rasmussen and Neuschel
MW 1:15 – 2:30

115.01. Aspects of Renaissance Culture (Also ENGLISH 123E.01, ITALIAN 134.01, HISTORY 148A.01, ARTHIST 149A.01)
Finucci and Witt
TTH 2:50 – 4:05

117A.01. Ancient Myth in Literature (Also CLST 117.01)
Wolkow
MW 11:40 – 12:55

129C.01. Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances (Also ARTHIST 111.01)
Quilligan
MW 11:40 – 12:55

139AS.01. Special Topics in British Literature I: “Medieval Sex Education” (Also ENGLISH 139AS.01)
Irvin
WF 2:50 – 4:05

139BS.01. Special Topics in British Literature II: “Protestant Poetry in England” (Also ENGLISH 139BS.01)
Aers
TTH 11:40 – 12:55

139BS.02. Special Topics in British Literature II: “Milton’s Comus" (Also ENGLISH 139BS.02, THEATRST 129S.03)
Quilligan
WF 2:50 – 4:05

139BS.03. Special Topics in British Literature II: “Text, Translation, Transmediation” (Also ENGLISH 139BS.03)
Ross
TTH 11:40 – 12:55

141.01. Fifteenth-Century Italian Art (Also ARTHIST 141.01)
Lanzoni
TTH 11:40 – 12:55

144C.01. Crusades to the Holy Land (Also JEWISHST 148.01, HISTORY 144A.01)
Bell
MF 10:05 - 11:20

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

156A.01. Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (Also HISTORY 156A.01, RELIGION 158.01, ICS 181H.01)
Hillerbrand
TTH 8:30-9:45

157.01. French Art and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Period (Also ARTHIST 156.01, ICS 180A.01)
Van Miegroet
TTH 2:50-4:05

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

183.01. Shakespeare after 1600 (Also ENGLISH 144.01, THEATRST 110.01, AAAS 199.01)
Porter
TTH 11:40-12:55

198S.01. Utopias (Also CLST 151S.01)
Clay
WF 11:40 – 12:55

200.01. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: “Conversion and Confession: Augustine, Milton, Bunyan” (Also CHURHST 219, ENGLISH 271BS)
Aers
TH 1:15 – 3:45
(Prerequisites: MEDREN 202B or CHURHST 13)

200.02. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: “The First Seven Ecumenical Councils: The Growth of Norms for Church Life East and West, ca. 300–800 AD” (Also CHURHST 272.01)
Keefe
M 7:00 – 9:30
(Prerequisites: MEDREN 202B or CHURHST 13)

200.03. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: "Preaching the Creed, 0-800 AD" (Also CHURCHST 272.02)
Keefe
W 7:00 - 9:30
(Prerequisites: MEDREN 202B or CHURCHST 13)

200.04. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: “Virtue and Theology in Early Christian Ethics” (Also HISTTHEO 220.01)
Smith
TTH 2:30 - 3:45
(Prerequisites: MEDREN 202B or CHURHST 13 and XTIANTHE 32)

202C.01. Modern European Christianity (Also CHURHST 14)
Steinmetz
TTH 11:00 - 12:15

220S.01. Shakespeare Topics: “Shakespeare and Company” (Also ENGLISH 220S.01)
Porter
W 4:25 – 6:55

223B.01. Music in the Renaissance: “Music during the Lifetime of Josquin Desprez” (Also MUSIC 223)
Tom Brothers
M 4:25 - 6:55
Biddle 069

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

Other MEDREN content courses not cross-listed with MEDREN this term but that count toward the major and minor:

HISTORY 196S.11. Junior-Senior Seminar: "Medieval Outcasts: Jews, Heretics, and Mystics"
Bell
M 2:50 - 5:20

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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

Inter-Institutional Registration Agreement

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.