Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Duke University
Box 90656
351 Trent Hall
Durham, NC 27708

Phone: (919) 681-8883
Fax: (919) 681-9298
Email: CMRS@duke.edu

Duke University has been a major center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies for over fifty years. Duke University collaborates on many projects with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University in the Joint Program for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Throughout this history, Duke University has established itself as an important international center for interdisciplinary medieval and Renaissance studies. The University has over forty distinguished faculty in ten different departments. All faculty participate in the University Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, which is the academic unit of the Center. The program itself offers an undergraduate major and minor within Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, and a certificate of graduate study within the Graduate School. The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies also sponsors or supports the following activities:

• Conferences, symposia, and lecture series on current topics of interdisciplinary interest, such as the two recent lecture series, "Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern" and "Renaissance Materialities."
• The triennial meeting of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (FNI), an interdisciplinary conference on early modern German studies held at Duke, most recently in 1998.
• The Renaissance Workshop held monthly at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, a major journal in the field published for 31 years by Duke University Press, named by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals its 1998 winner of the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement.

A variety of library and archival sources support Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke. The University libraries contain over 5,000,000 volumes, ranking among the top private university library systems in the United States. In addition to large holdings in art history, British history, English literature, musicology, medieval Church history, and Reformation and post- Reformation materials, the various campus libraries contain several distinguished special collections of medieval and early modern materials.

• The Greek manuscript collection in Perkins Library is one of the most outstanding of its kind in the country.
• The Duke Museum of Art has the Brummer Collection of medieval and Renaissance sculpture and decorative arts, and a collection of Renaissance Masters.
• The Music Department has an excellent collection of both early music and early music instruments.
• The Harold Jantz Collection in Perkins Library is the most outstanding collection of German Baroque literature in the country.
• The History of Medicine Collection in the Medical School library contains a rich collection of early printed books.
• Perkins Library holds Early English Books, the most important microfilm collection (over 4,500 reels) of books in English and books in any language printed in Britain 1475-1700.
• With nearby access to the libraries and special collections of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the reference and research holdings in the Durham-Chapel Hill area are exceptional. And with Duke and UNC's reciprocal registration arrangement, Duke graduate students may take courses with UNC faculty (over 40 working in Medieval and Renaissance Studies).

In addition to these resources, Duke offers its Medieval and Renaissance students special opportunities to work in adjacent and complementary areas of study that bring historical and theoretical issues together in productive ways. A particular strength is the study of religion, literature, and culture, supported by the Divinity School and philosophical traditions at Duke.

For further information, contact Michael Cornett at the Center's address above.