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, Classical Studies, English, French and Italian, Germanic and Slavic Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Spanish and Portuguese) and encourages students to choose their course of study according to their own interests. Students are also encouraged whenever possible to engage with primary source materials from Tulane's Rare Books Collection, online, or from other libraries.
The major consists of 30 credits (ten courses) to be distributed in the following manner:
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:
ARHS 1010 Art Survey I: Prehistory to Middle Ages
ARHS 3200 Early Christian and Byzantine Art
ARHS 3210 Art and Experience in the Middle Ages
ARHS 3220 Romanesque and Gothic Art
ARHS 6210 Medieval Pilgrimages: Saints, Bones, and Art
ARHS 6220 Women and Gender in Medieval Art
ARHS 6230 Art and Architecture of Medieval Italy
ASTA 3510 Premodern Japanese Culture
ENLS 4110 Middle English Literature
ENLS 4120 Medieval Literature
ENLS 4450 Chaucer
ENLS 6070 Introduction to Old English
ENLS 6120 Medieval Literature
ENLS 6450 Chaucer
FREN 4220 Medieval French Literature
FREN 6220 Medieval French Literature
HISA 1020 The Barbarian West
HISA 1030 Medieval Europe, 1100-1450
HISA 2030 Early Medieval and Byzantine Civilization from Constantine to the Crusades
HISA 2310 Medieval England
HISA 2350 Medieval Italy
HISA 3170 Medieval Spain
HISA 3910 Special Topics in Medieval and Ancient History
HISA 4140 The Crusades, 1095-1291
HISA 4150 The Age of the Vikings
HISA 4910 Special Topics in Medieval and Ancient History
HISA 6090 Seminar in Select Topics in Byzantine History
HISA 6230 Medieval Cities
HISA 6270 Women and Gender in the Middle Ages
HISM 2200 History of Islam to 1400
ITAL 4010 Topics in Origins and Masterpieces of 13th- and 14th-Century Italian Literature
JWST 3500 The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry I: Moslem Spain
JWST 3520 The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry II: Christian Spain
JWST 3530 Jewish Life and Thought in the High Middle Ages
JWST 4110 Rabbinic Judaism
JWST 4350 Rashi, Halevi, Maimonides: Rabbinic Luminaries of the Middle Ages
LATN 4070 Medieval Latin
PHIL 3240 Medieval Philosophy
SPAN 4420 Introduction to Multicultural Medieval Iberia
SPAN 6810 Reading Medieval Iberia
AHST 3300 Islamic Architecture
ARHS 3310 Art of the Early Renaissance in Italy
ARHS 6020P Art and Belief in the Western Tradition
ENLS 2010 Introduction to British Literature I
ENLS 4490 Early Major Authors
ENLS 5010 Seminar in British Literature to 1800
ENLS 6050 History of the English Language
ENLS 6490 Early Major Authors
FREN 4210 History of the French Language
FREN 6210 History of the French Language
GERM 3660 Love, Death, and Sexuality from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
GERM 3670 Grimm Reckonings: The Development of the German Fairy Tal
HISE 1210 Europe and the Wider World: From the Renaissance to 1789
HISE 2240 Russian History from the 9th to the Mid-19th Centuries
HISE 2410 Spain, 1369-1716
HISM 6140 Islam and the Western Mediterranean World, 1000-1900
MUSC 1410 History of European Music to 1750
RUSS 3030 Masterpieces of Russian Literature I
RUSS 3530 Survey of Russian Art
SPAN 4060 Pre-20th Century Readings in Spanish
SPAN 6510 History of the Spanish Language
ARHS 3230 Visual Culture of Golden Age Spain
ARHS 3320 16th-Century Italian Art
ARHS 3330 Italian Renaissance Architecture
ARHS 3360 Art and Desire at the Renaissance Courts
ARHS 3410 Theatres of the Baroque
ARHS 3420 Baroque Art
ARHS 3430 Rubens to Rembrandt
ARHS 3440 Italian Baroque Art
ARHS 3710 Colonial Art of Latin America
ENLS 3230 Shakespeare Select Plays
ENLS 3750 American Life in American Literature, 1620-1864
ENLS 4130 Renaissance Literature
ENLS 4140 17th-Century Literature
ENLS 4150 Early Modern Theater
ENLS 4170 18th-Century Novel
ENLS 4190 Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
ENLS 4310 American Literature to 1820
ENLS 4460, 4470Shakespeare I and II
ENLS 4480 Milton
ENLS 5310 Seminar in American Literature to 1820
ENLS 6130 Renaissance Literature
ENLS 6170 18th Century Literature
ENLS 6190 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
ENLS 6460, 6470 Shakespeare
ENLS 6480 Milton
FREN 4320 Renaissance Literature
FREN 4410 17th-Century French Literature
FREN 4420 17th-Century Drama
FREN 4520 18th-Century Literature
FREN 6320 Renaissance Prose
FREN 6410 17th-Century Literature
FREN 6520 18th-Century Literature
HISB 4250 The Atlantic Slave Trade
HISE 2160 Europe in the 18th Century
HISE 2320 Early Modern England
HISE 2420 The Age of Reformation
HISE 3300 Death, Disease, Destitution and Despair in Early Modern Europe
HISE 3140 Household, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
HISE 6050 The Italian Renaissance
HISE 6100 Renaissance and Reformation, 1450-1660
HISE 6330 Imperial Spain, 1469-1716
HISE 6350 Crime and Punishment in Hanoverian England
HISE 6360 English Civil War
HISE 6370 Seminar in Early Modern England
HISL 1710 Introduction to Latin American History
HISL 2760 Colonial Mexico
HISL 2810 Colonial Brazil
HISL 3710 Seminar: The Colonial Heritage of Latin America
HISU 2400 Women and Gender in U.S. History to 1830
HISU 2510 Atlantic World 1450-1800
HISU 2520 Early America to 1800
ITAL 4020 Topics in Renaissance Literature
ITAL 4030 Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century Italian Literature
JWST 3540 Jewish Life & Thought from the Renaissance to the Age of Reason
MUSC 6230 Keyboard Literature 1600-1750
PHIL 2020 History of Modern Philosophy
PHIL 2120 Classics of Ancient Political Philosophy II
SPAN 3450 Don Quijote in Translation
SPAN 4140 Introduction to Colonial Letters
SPAN 4230 Visual Culture of Golden Age Spain
SPAN 4430 Literature of the Golden Age
SPAN 6110 Foundations of Colonial Spanish American Literature (1492-1830)
SPAN 6330 Spanish Prose of the Golden Age
SPAN 6410 Don Quijote
SPAN 6430 Drama of the Golden Age
SPAN 6440 Poetry of the Golden Age