Medieval & Early Modern Studies

Description of Major and Minor

Tulane’s Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) offers a flexible, multidisciplinary major and minor designed to foster knowledge of the medieval and early modern worlds from the fourth through seventeenth centuries. Crossing national, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries, MEMS gives students the analytic tools and historical understanding necessary for navigating our own interconnected, globalized world. The program draws on the expertise of faculty members from multiple departments within the School of Liberal Arts (Art History, Asian Studies, English, French and Italian, Germanic and Slavic Languages, History, Music, Political Science, Spanish and Portuguese) and encourages students to choose their course of study according to their own interests.

Requirements

The major consists of 30 credits (ten courses) to be distributed in the following manner:

1. Three courses each from two of three categories: medieval (300-1499), early modern (1500-1699), and crossover (spanning medieval and early modern).
2. Any four additional courses listed in the program.
3. Capstone: Students may fulfill the capstone requirement in their senior year by taking an appropriate capstone course in the department of their choice.

The student may take up to four courses in a single department. Of the ten courses, no more than three courses may be taken below the 300-level, and at least two must be completed at the 400-level or above.

The minor consists of 18 credits (six courses) to be distributed in the following manner:

1. Two courses each from two of three categories: medieval, early modern, and crossover.
   
2. Any two additional courses listed in the program.

The student may take up to three courses in a single department.  Three of the six courses must be taken at the 300-level and above.

Category I: Medieval

ARHS 320 Early Christian and Byzantine Art

ARHS 321 Romanesque and Gothic Art

ARHS 624 Women and Gender in Medieval Art

ARHS 625 Medieval Pilgrimages

ENLS 407 Old and Middle English

ENLS 412 Medieval Literature

FREN 422 Medieval French Literature

FREN 423 Late Medieval French Literature

FREN 424 Women in the Middle Ages

HISA 102 The Barbarian West

HISA 103 Medieval Europe, 1100-1450

HISA 303 Early Medieval and Byzantine Civilization from Constantine to the Crusades

HISA 313 The Crusades, 1095-1291

HISA 314 The Age of the Vikings

HISA 331 Medieval England

HISA 335 Society and Culture in Medieval Italy, 1000-1400

HISA 397, 398 Special Offerings in Ancient/Medieval History

HISA H401 Colloquium in Late Antiquity

HISA H410 Colloquium and Field Work in Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean Civilizations

HISA 418 Medieval Spain

HISA 609 Seminar in Select Topics in Byzantine History

HISA 623 Medieval Cities

HISA 625 Medieval Religious Culture

HISA 627 Women and Gender in the Middle Ages

HISA 639 The Early Development of the Anglo-American Common Law

HISA 697, 698 Special Offerings in Ancient/Medieval History

HISM 405 Medieval Northwest Africa

ITAL 401 Topics in Origins and Masterpieces of 13^th- and 14^th-Century Italian Literature

JWST 350 The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry I: Moslem Spain

JWST 352 The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry II: Christian Spain

JWST 353 Jewish Life and Thought in the High Middle Ages

JWST 411 Rabbinic Judaism

JWST 435 Rashi, Halevi, Maimonides: Rabbinic Luminaries of the Middle Ages

SPAN 442 Introduction to Multicultural Medieval Iberia

SPAN 681 Reading Medieval Iberia

 

Category II: Cross-Over

ARHS 331 Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy

ENLS 449 Early Major Authors

ENLS 511 Seminar in British Literature to 1800

FREN 434 Parchment, Print, and PC’s: A History of the Book and Its Forms

FREN 621 History of the French Language

GERM 355 Grimm Reckonings: The Development of the German Fairy Tale

GERM 351 Love, Death, and Sexuality from the Middle Ages to the Baroque

GERM 640 Reisen ins Fremde

HISA 402 Topics in Medieval and Renaissance History

HISE H121 Europe and the Wider World to 1789

HISE 121 Europe and the Wider World

HISE 324 Russian History from the 9^th to the Mid-19^th Centuries

HISE 341 Spain, 1369-1716

HISE 633 Imperial Spain, 1469-1716

HISM 320 History of Islam

HISM 414/616 Islam and the Western Mediterranean World, 1000-1900

MUSC 141 History of European Music to 1800

SPAN 404 Early Readings in Spanish

SPAN 651 History of the Spanish Language

Category III: Early Modern

ARHS 332 16^th-Century Italian Art

ARHS 333 Italian Renaissance Architecture

ARHS 342 Baroque Art

ARHS 343 Northern Baroque Art

ARHS 344 Italian Baroque Art

ENLS 323 Shakespeare Select Plays

ENLS 413 Renaissance Literature

ENLS 414 17^th-Century Literature

ENLS 415 Early Modern Drama

ENLS 445 Chaucer

ENLS 446, 447 Shakespeare I and II

ENLS 448 Milton

FREN 432 Renaissance Literature

FREN 441 17^th-Century French Literature

FREN 442 17^th-Century Drama

FREN 631 Renaissance Poetry and Drama

HISE 314 Household, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

HISE 332 Early Modern England

HISE 342 The Age of Reformation

HISE H420 Disease, Death, Destitution, and Despair in Early Modern Europe

HISE 605 The Italian Renaissance

HISE 610 Renaissance and Reformation, 1450-1660

HISE 636 English Civil War

HISE 637 Seminar in Early Modern England

HISE 639 The Early Development of Anglo-American Common Law

ITAL 402 Topics in Renaissance Literature

ITAL 403 Topics in 17^th- and 18^th-Century Italian Literature

JWST 354 Jewish Life & Thought from the Renaissance to the Age of Reason

SPAN 443 Literature of the Golden Age

SPAN 633 Spanish Prose of the Golden Age

SPAN 641 Don Quijote

SPAN 643 Drama of the Golden Age

SPAN 644 Poetry of the Golden Age