Committee for Renaissance Studies

Chair

Nigel Smith

Executive Committee

Leonard Barkan, Comparative Literature

Patricia Fortini Brown, Art and Archaeology

Marina S. Brownlee, Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures

Pietro Frassica, French and Italian

Anthony T. Grafton, History

Wendy Heller, Music

Eileen A. Reeves, Comparative Literature

François P. Rigolot, French and Italian

Gideon A. Rosen, Philosophy, ex officio

Nigel Smith, English

 

The Committee for Renaissance Studies, under the general direction of the Council of the Humanities, fosters interdisciplinary discussion and cooperation among members of the Princeton University community engaged in the study of Renaissance culture in Europe, the Mediterranean area, and Latin America. The committee includes specialists in fields such as the arts, Continental literatures, English, and history. There is also a wider representation from other fields among those related to Renaissance studies in order to provide a forum for discussion of research in progress by faculty members, graduate students, members of the Institute for Advanced Study, and visiting scholars. In addition to a program of public lectures, designed in collaboration with other departments and programs, the committee gives logistic support to the Renaissance and Early Modern Colloquium, an informal discussion group organized by faculty and graduate students across disciplines at Princeton. Interested graduate students are invited to consult members of the committee, who will assist them in obtaining further information. Generally in the spring, often in collaboration with the Program in Medieval Studies, the committee also sponsors a one-to-two-day symposium on a topic of common interest. For information about enrollment in graduate courses, students should consult the individual instructors.

Inquiries may be addressed to: Renaissance Studies, 207 Scheide Caldwell House, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-5264; (609) 258-4959; e-mail: mjreilly@princeton.edu. Or students can find us on the Web at www.princeton.edu/~renaiss.

Pertinent Courses in Allied Departments

Art and Archaeology

501 Introduction to Historiography

540 Art and Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

541 Problems in Renaissance Devotional Art

542 Art and Society in Renaissance Italy

544 Seminar in the Northern Renaissance

545 The Geography of Art

547 Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture

552 Northern Baroque Art

553 Seminar in Central European Art

554 Seminar in 17th- and 18th-Century Art

560 Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Comparative Literature

533 Literary Criticism: Classicism and Neoclassicism

542 The Classical Tradition: Modernity—Homer and the Modern

547 The Renaissance

551 The 17th Century in Europe

English

521 Spenser

522 The Renaissance in England

523 Renaissance Drama

524 Special Studies in Renaissance Drama

525, 526 Shakespeare I, II

531 Milton

532 The Early 17th Century

French and Italian

511 Humanism and the French Renaissance

512 Lyric Poetry of the French Renaissance

515 The Classical Tradition

516 Seminar in 17th-Century French Literature

517 Forms of Neoclassicism

581 Introduction to Romance Linguistics and Cultures

German

511 German Literature in the 17th Century

History

545 Readings in Renaissance and Reformation History

547 Readings in 17th-Century European History

552 Seminar in 16th-Century France

568 The Coming of the English Revolution, 1529–1641

591 The Scientific Revolution

594 Introductory Colloquium in the History of Science I

Music

517 Topics in the History of Musical Theory to 1725

525, 526 Topics in Music from 1400 to 1600

Near Eastern Studies

505 Readings in Ottoman Turkish

506 Ottoman Diplomatics: Paleography and Diplomatic Documents

553 Studies in Islamic Religion and Thought

571 Problems in Early Ottoman History

Philosophy

511 Pre-Kantian Rationalism

515, 516 Special Topics in the History of Philosophy

Politics

513 Modern Political Theory

Religion

Interested students are encouraged to consult the department for the specific content of graduate courses.

Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures

535 Golden-Age Prose

536 Golden-Age Poetry

537 Golden-Age Drama

538 Seminar in Golden-Age Literature

549 Prose and Poetry of Early Colonial Spanish America

Note: On a term-by-term basis, special-topics seminars in the above departments may cover material relevant to Renaissance studies. Students should consult with the individual department.