Spring 2020 Graduate Courses
Courses accepted for credit toward the MA degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Course listings change often, please check departmental websites, as well as this page, to confirm courses.
Departments
The department of Art History and Archaeology requires students to apply for registration in certain courses please see the the department website for more information.
Medieval Art II: From Pope Gregory to the Eve of the Reformation
G. Bryda
AHIS GU 4023
Gothic Nature
G. Bryda
AHIS GU 4520
The Early Mosque: Shaping Sacred Space
A. Shalem
AHIS GU4585
Painting in Sixteenth-Century Japan
Matthew P McKelway
AHAR GR8643 Call 12937
Painting and Society in the Fifteenth Century Netherlands
David A Freedberg
AHAR GR8310 Call 13604
Canterbury Tales
Eleanor Johnson
ENGL GU4729
Renaissance Literature and (the History of) Sexuality
Julie Crawford
ENGL GU 4104
Medieval Romance
Christopher Baswell
CLEN GU6045 Call 11424
Literature and Science in Early Modern England
Alan Stewart
ENGL GU4248
Renaissance Drama: Early Modern Race Studies
Jean E Howard and Kim F Hall
ENGL GR6135
French Literature of the 17th Century
Pierre Force
FREN GU4301
Jews, Magic, and Science in Premodern Europe
Gail
GU4522
Medieval Franciscans and their World
N. Senocak
GU4699
Science and Art in Early Modern Europe
Gjikola
GU4935
Medieval & Renaissance Philology
Adam Kosto
MRST GR6021
Directed Individual Readings
Adam Kosto
MRST GR6990
MA Thesis I
Adam Kosto
MRST 6998
MA Thesis II
Adam Kosto
MRST6999
Sufism, Shari’a, and Poli
Hallaq
Middle East GR6231
Music, Musicians and Mobility in the Early Modern Period
MUS GU4109
David J. Burn, Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor at Columbia University, and Professor & Head of Research in Early Music, University of Leuvenn (Belgium)
No Musical Expertise Required.
Topics in Early Modern Philosophy
Christina Mercer
PHIl GU4950
Topic: Ultimate Knowledge and How to Get It
Main questions of focus: what is the object of ultimate knowledge (UK) and what sort of subject can have it? If we think of the subject of UK (i.e., the seeker of UK) as the self, what is the self like such that it seeks UK? What motivates it to do so? What must the self do to achieve such knowledge? In the movement to UK, does the self change? If so, why and how? What motivates the self to change? To what extent is the self transformed in its path to UK? What does the self lose and what gain? To what extent is the self transformed by UK? Is the path to UK an individual one or does it involve a community? Given that life is full of change and even suffering, what role do they play in the path to UK? What faculties are most important? What role do experience reason, love, sympathy and other capacities play in achieving UK? Finally, what’s the point of seeking UK?
Course texts will include Plato, Plotinus, (possibly) Augustine, and Teresa of Avila before turning to the philosophy of Anne Conway
Canon Law & Medieval Christianity
Robert E. Somerville
REL GU4171
Japanese Religion
Bernard Faure
RELI GU9335