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 ...

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Study of the literary form and argument of Augustine's epoch-making City of God: a rhetorical tour de force of consummate artistry and stunning originality and scope; and a political, religious, and ...

Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several national literatures, or genres, medieval and early modern period. See synopsis for more details. Satisfies Area I requirement for ...

Seminar on the material bases (archival documents, legal records, court records, manuscripts, material artifacts, and the like) for the study of the Middle Ages. Topics addressed include origins and ...

Examines a particular aspect of Boccaccio's works, such as the Decameron. Issues may include Boccaccio's role in the construction of a vernacular literary community, his place in the history of ...

Ben Ames-McCrimmonben.ames-mccrimmon@duke.edu ...

The English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion: A Soldier’s Diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay, with Related Documents ...

You have all probably seen them: online reading lists created expressly for the bored souls forced to stay indoors because of the restrictions on movement imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 ...

Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studiessara.galletti@duke.edu ...

The history of Viking raiding, trading, exploration, and settlement, with attention to the socioeconomic structure, political organization, and naval technology of medieval Scandinavian societies.