Medieval and Early Modern Studies Courses

Courses relevant to the minor are numerous at the University of Rochester. Below is a list of courses taught and being taught.

Art and Art History (Humanities)

AHST 101: Introduction to Art and Visual Culture
AHST 120: Northern Renaissance
AHST 226: IN AREZZO – Monuments of Ancient Italy: History, Structure, Form
AHST 236: Art and Culture of Eastern Christianity
AHST 240: British Art of the Middle Ages
AHST 242: Barbarian Europe
AHST 244: Renaissance Art and Social Change in Tuscany
AHST 245: Architecture in the High Middle Ages
AHST 282: Renaissance Art: Space, Narrative, Form

English (Humanities)

ENGL 105: Arthurian Cinema
ENGL 105: Middle Welsh Language
ENGL 111: Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 112: Classical and Scriptural Backgrounds
ENGL 113: British Literature I
ENGL 114: British Literature II
ENGL 200: History of the English Language
ENGL 201: Old English Literature and Language
ENGL 202: Beowulf
ENGL 202: The Rewritable Beowulf
ENGL 203: Medieval Drama
ENGL 203: Middle English Romance
ENGL 204: Chaucer
ENGL 206: Carnal Speaking: Body and Discourse in Middle English Literature
ENGL 206: Medieval Celtic Literature in Translation
ENGL 207: English Renaissance Literature
ENGL 207: Middle English Literature
ENGL 208: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
ENGL 208: Renaissance Drama
ENGL 210: Shakespeare
ENGL 211: Milton's Poetry
ENGL 213: English Renaissance
ENGL 213: English Renaissance Lyric
ENGL 213: Milton
ENGL 244: Myth and Fairy Tale
ENGL 254: Arthurian Traditions
ENGL 380: Brain Science and Cognition in Langland, Chaucer and Gower
ENGL 380: Renaissance Utopia
ENGL 380: Robin Hood: All-American Hero
ENGL 380: Utopias
ENGL 391: Reading Course in Medieval Literature

History (Social Sciences)

HIST 102: The West and the World to 1500
HIST 123: Early Modern Europe
HIST 131: History of Russia to 1692
HIST 228: British History to 1485
HIST 230: History from Myth: King Arthur and Robin Hood
HIST 309W: Mediterranean World, 1400-1800
HIST 331W: Europe in 1215

Modern Languages and Cultures (Humanities)

ITAL 195Q: Dante's Divine Comedy I
ITAL 196Q: Dante's Divine Comedy II
ITAL 220: Courtly Culture of the Italian Renaissance
ITAL 222: Boccaccio's Decameron
ITAL 223/AHST 226: IN AREZZO – Monuments of Ancient Italy: History, Structure, Form
ITAL 224A: Create a Documentary, Recreate the Medieval World
ITAL 244: Fifteenth-Century Italian Art
ITAL 244: Tuscan Renaissance Painting
ITAL 245: Dante: A Multimedia Lab
SPAN 203: Early Hispanic Texts
SPAN 215: Don Quixote: The Book, The Myth, The Image
SPAN 249E: Reading Fables, Telling Tales in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
JPNS 283: The Culture of Zen

Religion and Classics (Humanities)

RELC 101: Introduction to the Old Testament
RELC 102: Introduction to the New Testament
RELC 104: History of Christianity
RELC 107: History of Islam
RELC/CLST 140: Classical and Scriptural Backgrounds
RELC 148: Arabian Nights
RELC 208: Medicine, Magic and Miracle
RELC 211: Jews, Pagans and Christians
RELC 227: Ancient Christianity
RELC 230: Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas
RELC 231: Christian History I
RELC 232: Christian History II
RELC 240: Muhammed and the Qur'an
RELC 243: Islamic Mysticism
RELC 244: Islamic Mystical Poetry

Music (Humanities)

MUSC 141B: Shakespeare and Music
MUSC 221: History of Western Music to 1600

Eastman School of Music (Humanities)

AHST 281: Art History: Ancient to Medieval
AHST 281: Art of the Renaissance
ENGL 142: Lyric Poetry
ENGL 209: The Elizabethan Shakespeare
ENGL 210: The Jacobean Shakespeare
ENGL 281/282: Shakespeare’s History Plays
ENGL 282: Readings in Medieval English Literature
HUM 282: Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio
MHS 121: Music and Society: 800 – 1750
MHS 421: Music in the Middle Ages
MHS 422: Music in the Renaissance

Course Schedules and descriptions for the above courses can be found in the CDCS.