How do we model thinking, and in what sense does our thought have objects? I review two models of thinking from the medieval Scholastic tradition, which I call the "gaze + sign" model (in Augustine ...

Chandler Fry received his Ph.D. in English from Duke in May 2021. His dissertation, “Reasoning Rebellion and Reformation: Natural Law and the Ethics of Power and Resistance in Late Medieval English ...

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 ...

The Early Modern London project, led by Dr. Astrid Giugni (Lecturing Fellow in English and Information Science + Studies) ran during the 2022-23 school year with the generous support of the Center for ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Last summer you participated in a research project led by Professor Astrid Giugni (English and Information Science + Studies) called “Reconstructing Utopia in Restoration London.” What was this ...

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) ...

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 ...