Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MRST)
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Pre-1800 content.
Description: Historical context of changes in religion, literature, philosophy, and the arts, 400-1450.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Pre-1800 content.
Description: The cultural and intellectual developments of the German Reformation against its social background. The religious and political events of the first half of the sixteenth century. Transition from medieval to modern Christianity. The transmission and revolutionary nature of evangelical doctrines. The gradual institutionalization of the new churches.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Life and thought of significant figures and schools of thought in the Reformation period
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Pre-1800 content.
Description: Individuals from late medieval/early modern Europe, such as Joan of Arc, Henry V, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Examines how history can be used to serve social, cultural, and political needs, and the difficulties of determining historic truth about a person or event.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Pre-1800 content.
Description: History of English society, politics, and culture from the time of Henry VIII through that of Elizabth I, Shakespeare, Donne, Charles I, Cromwell, and Milton.
MRST 896 is for graduate students studying a particular MRST topic in consultation with at least one faculty member and completing the MRST minor. Courses must be approved by the MRST Director to qualify for the minor.
Description: Engage in original research and produce an article-length paper--or equivalent substantial work as agreed upon by student and professor--to complete the course.