Minor in 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)
AH 101: Introduction to Art and Visual Culture
AH 120: Northern Renaissance
AH 226: IN AREZZO – Monuments of Ancient Italy: History, Structure, Form
AH 236: Art and Culture of Eastern Christianity
AH 240: British Art of the Middle Ages
AH 242: Barbarian Europe
AH 244: Renaissance Art and Social Change in Tuscany
AH 245: Architecture in the High Middle Ages
AH 282: Renaissance Art: Space, Narrative, Form
English (Humanities)
ENG 105: Arthurian Cinema
ENG 105: Middle Welsh Language
ENG 111: Introduction to Shakespeare
ENG 112: Classical and Scriptural Backgrounds
ENG 113: British Literature I
ENG 114: British Literature II
ENG 200: History of the English Language
ENG 201: Old English Literature and Language
ENG 202: Beowulf
ENG 202: The Rewritable Beowulf
ENG 203: Medieval Drama
ENG 203: Middle English Romance
ENG 204: Chaucer
ENG 206: Carnal Speaking: Body and Discourse in Middle English Literature
ENG 206: Medieval Celtic Literature in Translation
ENG 207: English Renaissance Literature
ENG 207: Middle English Literature
ENG 208: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
ENG 208: Renaissance Drama
ENG 210: Shakespeare
ENG 211: Milton's Poetry
ENG 213: English Renaissance
ENG 213: English Renaissance Lyric
ENG 213: Milton
ENG 244: Myth and Fairy Tale
ENG 254: Arthurian Traditions
ENG 380: Brain Science and Cognition in Langland, Chaucer and Gower
ENG 380: Renaissance Utopia
ENG 380: Robin Hood: All-American Hero
ENG 380: Utopias
ENG 391: Reading Course in Medieval Literature
History (Social Sciences)
HIS 102: Early Europe
HIS 155: History of Russia to 1692
HIS 211: History from Myth: King Arthur and Robin Hood
HIS 231: British History to 1485
HIS 350W: Topics in Medieval History
HIS 352W: Europe in 1215
TBA: Foundations of Medieval France
TBA: Normans and the Twelfth Century Renaissance
Modern Languages and Cultures (Humanities)
IT 195Q: Dante's Divine Comedy I
IT 196Q: Dante's Divine Comedy II
IT 220: Courtly Culture of the Italian Renaissance
IT 222: Boccaccio's Decameron
IT 223/AH 226: IN AREZZO – Monuments of Ancient Italy: History, Structure, Form
IT 244: Fifteenth-Century Italian Art
IT 244: Tuscan Renaissance Painting
SP 203: Early Hispanic Texts
SP 215: Don Quixote: The Book, The Myth, The Image
SP 249E: Reading Fables, Telling Tales in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
JPN 283: The Culture of Zen
Religion and Classics (Humanities)
REL 104: History of Christianity
REL 107: History of Islam
REL/CLA 140: Classical and Scriptural Backgrounds
REL 148: Arabian Nights
REL 208: Medicine, Magic and Miracle
REL 211: Jews, Pagans and Christians
REL 227: Ancient Christianity
REL 230: Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas
REL 231: Christian History I
REL 232: Christian History II
REL 240: Muhammed and the Qur'an
REL 243: Islamic Mysticism
REL 244: Islamic Mystical Poetry
Music (Humanities)
MUR 141B: Shakespeare and Music
MUR 221: History of Western Music to 1600
Eastman School of Music (Humanities)
AH 281: Art History: Ancient to Medieval
AH 281: Art of the Renaissance
ENG 142: Lyric Poetry
ENG 209: The Elizabethan Shakespeare
ENG 210: The Jacobean Shakespeare
ENG 281/282: Shakespeare’s History Plays
ENG 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
