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Rialto

Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Medieval and Renaissance Studies explores the birth of our own familiar world while introducing students to an often alien and mysterious past. Students will embark an intellectual adventure through coursework that focuses on the advent of science, the voyages of discovery, the birth of democracy, the writings of the great poets from Dante to Shakespeare, the monumental achievements of artists such as Michelangelo and Rembrandt, the birth of print culture and censorship, monastic life, the Reformation, the beginnings of capitalism and consumerism, as well as the power of city states.

Upcoming Events

2011-12 Ray Smith Symposium
"Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment," a yearlong program that questions modern conceptions of gender by historicizing sexual roles and practices in Europe between the 5th and 18th centuries.
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