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| Professors Cerasano, Davies, Frank, Harsin, Martin, Maurer, Plata Parga, Staley Associate Professors Barrera, Coluzzi, Cooper (Director), Dauber, Guile, Riley, Worley Assistant Professors Brown, Clayton, Ramirez Velazquez, Stenberg Senior Lecturer T Tomlinson |
The Medieval and Renaissance studies (MARS) minor enables students to explore the richness and variety of civilizations from the late Roman and medieval eras tinto the early modern period. While focused on the cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean, it examines cross-cultural onnections both within and beyond this area. Broadly interdisciplinary, it spans the arts and humanities and social sciences, engaging history, art, literature, archaeology, architecture, music, philosophy, science, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. As such, the minor encompasses topics from the Fall of the Roman Empire, the development of early medieval culture, the birth of Islam, the Viking Age, the Commercial Revolution, the origins of vernacular literature, Romanesque and Gothic Architecture, Polyphony and the Baroque, the Black Death, the flourishing of medieval religiosity, the Reformation, the Renaissance, Europe's colonial and imperial expansion, the slave trade, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the beginning of the modern industrial world.
Through deep study of the distant past, students develop skills of interpretation and analysis of fragmentary and tantalizingly cryptic evidence. They develop an appreciation for the aesthetic wonders of vanished cultures as well as an understanding of how the past shapes and informs who we are today.
Award
Award for Excellence in Medieval and Renaissance Studies — awarded by the program for excellence in medieval and Renaissance studies.
Courses
Use the minor link below to find courses that count toward the MARS requirements.Â