'Mindful meditation' is all the rage right now, but few people realize that a similar form of introspection was also extremely popular in the later Middle Ages. In fact, beginning in the thirteenth ...

The following departments and programs are closely affiliated with Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Faculty teaching MEDREN courses come from these departments, and we offer a Focus program every ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies was established in 1968. Today Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke is a vibrant, cross-disciplinary humanities program that draws together faculty ...

Alyssa is a Postdoctoral Associate, teaching courses on medieval Italian literature and gender studies. Her research interests include Dante, Boccaccio, feminist thought, and women writers. She is ...

Qualified students must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.5 in the major. An honors project application, approved by the thesis advisor, should be submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies during ...

Students double-majoring in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and another department or program may elect to work on an honors project and receive honors in both areas. The following additional ...

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

Robert Pasnau, Duke's Visiting Mahoney Scholar will be giving a talk entitled: "How to Control Your Will and Succeed in Life" Abstract. Controlling our wills, by common consent, is one of the keys to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Qur'an is the Islamic scripture. This course explores the history of revelation or words of God in Islam; formation of the Qur'an as a book; its interpretation from medieval to modern time; its ...

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 The central document is a previously unpublished diary ...