Robert Pasnau, Duke's Visiting Mahoney Scholar will be giving a talk entitled: "How to Control Your Will and Succeed in Life" Abstract. Controlling our wills, by common consent, is one of the keys to ...

Please join us for an open discussion of this book with Mark Cruse, Associate Professor of French, Arizona State University, and National Humanities Center Fellow this year. Mark's research turns ...

Speaker: Adam Sabra, Professor of History and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of ...

Lecture and discussion centered on the second edition of the Cromwell biography by Ian Gentles. Dr. Gentles has taught at York University's Glendon College and is Distinguished Professor of History at ...

Julian of Norwich wrote the several versions of A Revelation of Love during the decades of the Great Schism (1378-1415), a period of acknowledged religious crisis across western Europe, including ...

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 340B Trent Hall Campus Box 90656 Durham, NC 27708 (919) 681-8883 [email protected] ...

A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past. This book traces the history of botanical ...

This course examines the thought of three of the most influential political writers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Francesco Guicciardini, and Benvenuto Cellini. Their ideas shaped the formation of ...

Exploration of ancient Germanic fantasy worlds with their gods, giants, dwarves, dragon-slayers, werewolves, shapeshifters, and witches. Readings of short texts and excerpts from myths, epics, legends ...

What does looting reveal about the nature of human creativity, ideals, and values? Who owns the past? Or, better, who decides who owns the past? Finally, how does ownership of the past shape the ...

The course explores the critical analysis of the creative products of the human intellect in mystical experiences including the symbolic stories of Avicenna, al-Gazali, Ibn Tufail, Suhrawardi & Mulla ...