A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways ...

Students can get either a major or a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MEDREN). Duke is one of a handful of universities in the U.S. to offer an undergraduate major in Medieval and ...

This class explores conflicting and competing ideas about nature in Shakespeare's plays. We examine creatureliness, human and non-human, in relation to ideas of the natural and the supernatural.

The book captures a moment when the competing ambitions of the Mughal Empire and the English East India Company brought them into armed conflict. The central document is a previously unpublished diary ...

Topics may focus on fine arts, history, language and literature, or philosophy and religion. Open to seniors and graduate students; other students may need consent of instructor.

Michael Cornett (MA, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is the Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Duke's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and he is ...

MEDREN 201S Music History I: Antiquity Through Renaissance CCI, ALP, CZ MUSIC 255S MEDREN 202S Music History II: 1600 through Mozart CCI, R, ALP, CZ MUSIC 256S MEDREN 215 Gothic Cathedrals CCI, R, ALP ...

MEDREN 304 The Problem of Love in Western Literature CCI, R, ALP, CZ ITALIAN 225 ...

Exploration of ancient Germanic fantasy worlds with their gods, giants, dwarves, dragon-slayers, werewolves, shapeshifters, and witches. Readings of short texts and excerpts from myths, epics, legends ...

The Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies promotes the interdisciplinary study of the twelve-hundred-year period from 500 to 1700 that definitively shaped the civilizations of Western Europe, ...

How has thinking with premodern cultures shaped criticism? Seminar explores aspects of medieval Euro-Mediterranean cultures as perennial objects of thought, investigating the ways the surviving ...

Examination of twelve plays by Shakespeare written before 1600. Satisfies Area I requirement for English majors.