Coordinator: Karen Robertson (English and Women's Studies);
Steering Committee: Nicholas Adams, Peter Huenink (Art), J. Bertrand
Lott (Classics), Mark Amodio, Leslie Dunn, Don Foster, Katherine Little
(English), Nancy Bisaha, Mita Choudhury (History), Christine Reno (French),
John Ahern (Italian), Marc Epstein (Religion); Participating Faculty.
Susan D. Kuretsky, Jacqueline Musacchio (Art); Robert D. Brown (Classics);
Robert DeMaria, Eamon Grennan, Ann Imbrie, James P. Saeger (English);
Patricia Kenworthy (Hispanic Studies); Eugenio Giusti (Italian); Brian
Mann (Music); Mitchell Miller (Philosophy); Betsy H. Amaru, Lynn R.
LiDonnici (Religion).
The interdepartmental program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies is
designed to provide the student with a coherent course of study in the
arts, history, literature, and thought of European civilization from
the fall of Rome to the seventeenth century.
Requirements for concentration: 12 units, including Medieval/Renaissance
Culture 220, and the senior thesis. Three units, one of which is the
senior thesis, must be at the 300–level. Distribution and language
requirements, listed below, must also be satisfied.
Distribution Requirement: In addition to Medieval/Renaissance
Culture 220 and the thesis, students should take 10 units from the approved
list. Three courses must be chosen from each of three groups of disciplines:
Art and Music; History, Philosophy, Religion; Language and Literature.
300–level work is required in at least two departments.
Language Requirement: The major requires demonstration of competence
in Latin or in at least one vernacular language besides Middle English.
Competency is demonstrated by completion of 200–level work in a
language. Languages may include French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin,
Old English, and Spanish.
Recommendations: Since Latin is a core skill for medieval studies,
all students are strongly urged to take at least one year of Latin.
Students expecting to concentrate on the Renaissance should also study
Italian.
In order to gain an understanding of the political, philosophical,
and religious developments of the period, students should take some
of the following courses: History 116, History 123, History 215, History
225, Philosophy 101, Political Science 170, Religion 150.
Correlate Sequence in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: 6 graded
units from the list of approved courses are required, including Medieval
and Renaissance Studies 220 or History 215 or History 225; Art 220 or
the equivalent; and English 220 or English 230–231 or the equivalent
in a foreign language. These courses should be taken early in a student's
career. 100–level work cannot be included in the sequence and at
least 1 unit must be at the 300–level. The courses selected for
the sequence must form a unified course of study and a written proposal
articulating the focus of the sequence must be submitted to the correlate
sequence adviser for approval prior to declaration.
Course Offerings
[220b. Medieval/Renaissance Culture] (1)
Not offered in 2001/02.l
300. Senior Thesis (1)
Approved Courses
Art and Music
Art 220a. Romanesque and Gothic Architecture
(1)
[Art 221b. The Sacred Arts of the Middle Ages]
(1) Not offered in 2001/02.
Art 230a. Northern Renaissance Painting (1)
Art 235a. Renaissance Painting, Sculpture and
Decorative Arts in Italy (1)
Art 236b. Sixteenth Century Painting, Sculpture
and Decorative Arts in Italy (1)
Art 270a. Renaissance Architecture (1)
Art 271b. Early Modern Architecture (1)
[Art 320b. Seminar in Medieval Art] (1) Not offered
in 2001/02.
Art 331a. Seminar in Northern Art (1)
Art 332b. Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art
(1) Topic for 2001/02: Domestic Art and Ritual in Renaissance Italy
[Music 232a. Studies in Music of the Medieval/Renaissance
Period] (1)
Not offered in 2001/02.
History, Philosophy, Religion
Classics 218b. Republican Rome: From the Foundation
through the Age of Augustus (1)
Classics 219b. The Roman Empire: From the Julio–Claudian
Era Through the Fall (1)
History 215b. The High Middle Ages c. 950–1300
(1)
[History 225a. Renaissance Europe c.1300c.1525]
(1) Not offered in 2001/02.
[History 315b. Crusades] (1) Not offered in 2001/02.
[History 331a. Women and Gender in Early Modern
Europe] (1) Not offered in 2001/02.
Religion 220a. Text and Tradition (1)
Religion 225. The Hebrew Bible (1)
Religion 227. The New Testament and Early Christianity
(1)
Religion 243. Islamic Traditions (1)
Religion 320. Studies in Sacred Texts (1) Topic
for 2001/02: Gnostic Literature
Religion 346. Studies in Jewish Thought and History
(1)
Language and Literature
Africana Studies 203a. The Origins and Development
of Islamic Literature (1)
Classics 300a. Seminar in Classical Civilization
(1) Topic for 2001/02: Ancient Money: Greek and Roman Coins in the
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
English 220–221. British Literature through
the Eighteenth Century (1)
English 235. Old English (1)
English 236. Beowulf (1)
English 237. Chaucer (1)
English 238. Middle English Literature (1)
English 239. Renaissance Drama (1)
English 240. Shakespeare (1)
English 241–42. Shakespeare (1)
English 340. Studies in Medieval Literature (1)
Topic for 2001/02: Medieval Drama: Signs, Ritual, Performance
English 341. Studies in Renaissance Literature
(1) Topic for 2001/02: Performance of Power
English 342. Women in the Renaissance (1)
English 345. Milton (1)
English 380. Oral Theory: From the Spoken Word
to the Written Text (1)
French 230. Medieval and Early Modern Times
(1)
[French 332. Literature and Society in Pre–Revolutionary
France] (1) Not offered in 2001/02.
Hispanic Studies 226a. Medieval and Early Modern
Spain (1) Topic for 2001/02: Desire and Despair in Early Modern Spain
Italian 175a. The Italian Renaissance in English
Translation (1)
Italian 220b. Italian Civilization: Interpreting
the Texts (1)
Italian 237b., 238a. Dante's Divine Comedy
in Translation (1)
Italian 242. Boccaccio's Decameron in
Translation: The Novella" as Microcosm (1)
Italian 330b. The Italian Renaissance: Epic,
Fiction, Letterss, Memoirs
[Italian 331a. The Italian Renaissance: Poetry,
Theatre, Politics, and Ideology] (1) Not offered in 2001/02.
Italian 337b, 338a. Dante's Divine Comedy
(1)
Latin 105a–106b. Elementary Latin (1)
Latin 215a. Republican Literature (1)
Latin 220b. Literature of the Empire (1)
Latin 301b. Topics in Latin Literature (1)
Latin 302a. Vergil (1)
Latin 303a. Tacitus (1)
Latin 304a. Roman Lyric and Elegy (1)