Includes reading either selected works by Cervantes (dramas, novellas, and part of Don Quixote) or the Quixote in its entirety. Attention to the Roman and/or Arab conquests of Spain, Spanish relations ...

Chandler Fry received his Ph.D. in English from Duke in May 2021. His dissertation, “Reasoning Rebellion and Reformation: Natural Law and the Ethics of Power and Resistance in Late Medieval English ...

Katherine Werwie has been hired as the new Associate Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art. She is a medieval art scholar who will conceptualize and implement curatorial programming. She will start on ...

Dr. Astrid Giugni (English and Information Science + Studies) leads the Bass Connections project “Ethical Consumption before Capitalism,” which brings undergraduate STEM and Humanities students ...

Last summer you participated in a research project led by Professor Astrid Giugni (English and Information Science + Studies) called “Reconstructing Utopia in Restoration London.” What was this ...

Robert Pasnau, Duke Philosophy's Mahoney Visiting Scholar, will be giving a Seminar entitled "Medieval Voluntarism and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale".

A graduation dinner and celebration was held in May for the 2025 Medieval and Renaissance Studies graduates with their parents and favorite professors in a private dining room at Café Parizade in ...

At this time of collective stasis, when most of us are homebound and getting fidgety, a discussion about medieval pilgrimage might move our imaginations, and possibly even our bodies! On the newest ...

A graduation luncheon and celebration was held in May for the 2022 Medieval and Renaissance Studies graduates with their parents and favorite professors at Café Parizade in Durham. The 2022 class ...

Dr. Thomas Robisheaux is Professor of History at Duke University. In this interview, he discusses what he describes as the “most exciting and rewarding” teaching experience he has had in his career at ...

How to do Microhistory: Using Carlos Ginzburg's "The Cheese and the Worms" as a guide. Tom Robisheaux is Professor of History in the Duke History Dept. He is an historian of early modern Europe with ...

Speaker(s): Astrid Giugni (English and Computational Science) and Sarah Konrad (Duke Focus student) Sarah Konrad (Med/Ren Focus, Fall 2021) and Astrid Giugni (Lecturing Fellow, English Department) ...