Katherine Werwie has been hired as the new Associate Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art. She is a medieval art scholar who will conceptualize and implement curatorial programming. She will start on ...

A graduation dinner and celebration was held in May for the 2025 Medieval and Renaissance Studies graduates with their parents and favorite professors in a private dining room at Café Parizade in ...

Lecture and discussion centered on the second edition of the Cromwell biography by Ian Gentles. Dr. Gentles has taught at York University's Glendon College and is Distinguished Professor of History at ...

Dr. Thomas Robisheaux is Professor of History at Duke University. In this interview, he discusses what he describes as the “most exciting and rewarding” teaching experience he has had in his career at ...

Dr. Astrid Giugni (English and Information Science + Studies) leads the Bass Connections project “Ethical Consumption before Capitalism,” which brings undergraduate STEM and Humanities students ...

Robert Pasnau, Duke Philosophy's Mahoney Visiting Scholar, will be giving a Seminar entitled "Medieval Voluntarism and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale".

Please come support these CMRS-affiliated graduate students who have just defended their dissertations and hear them speak to a nonspecialist, cross-disciplinary audience about their research topics, ...

A graduation luncheon and celebration was held in May for the 2022 Medieval and Renaissance Studies graduates with their parents and favorite professors at Café Parizade in Durham. The 2022 class ...

An educational project looking for up to 6 students to teach how to use digital mapping to understand 17th century London. The project is designed and led by Dr. Astrid Giugni, Lecturing Fellow of ...

At this time of collective stasis, when most of us are homebound and getting fidgety, a discussion about medieval pilgrimage might move our imaginations, and possibly even our bodies! On the newest ...

How to do Microhistory: Using Carlos Ginzburg's "The Cheese and the Worms" as a guide. Tom Robisheaux is Professor of History in the Duke History Dept. He is an historian of early modern Europe with ...

Speaker(s): Astrid Giugni (English and Computational Science) and Sarah Konrad (Duke Focus student) Sarah Konrad (Med/Ren Focus, Fall 2021) and Astrid Giugni (Lecturing Fellow, English Department) ...