'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 ...

The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is organized entirely by graduate students to promote graduate student work. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members are more than welcome to ...

Julian of Norwich wrote the several versions of A Revelation of Love during the decades of the Great Schism (1378-1415), a period of acknowledged religious crisis across western Europe, including ...

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 340B Trent Hall Campus Box 90656 Durham, NC 27708 (919) 681-8883 [email protected] ...

A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past. This book traces the history of botanical ...