Committee for Renaissance Studies
Chair
Marina S. Brownlee
Executive Committee
Leonard Barkan, Comparative Literature
Patricia Fortini Brown, Art and Archaeology
Marina S. Brownlee, Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature
Pietro Frassica, French and Italian
Anthony T. Grafton, History
Wendy Heller, Music
Christopher Heuer, Art and Archaeology
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, seeks to foster interdisciplinary discussion and cooperation among members of the University engaged in the study of Renaissance culture in Western Europe, the Mediterranean area, and Latin America. The committee includes specialists in fields such as history, English and continental literatures, and the arts. 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, 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 faculty and students are invited to consult members of the committee, who will assist them in obtaining further information. Each spring the committee also sponsors a symposium on a topic of general interest. Interested faculty and students are invited to consult members of the committee, who will assist them in obtaining further information. For information about enrollment in courses, students should consult individual instructors. (See also Program in Medieval Studies.)
Courses in Renaissance Studies
Architecture (see Art and Archaeology)
Art and Archaeology
209 Between Renaissance and Revolution: Baroque Art in Europe
210 Italian Renaissance Painting and Sculpture
219 Northern Renaissance Art
221 Art of Hispania
319 Italian Trecento Art
332 The Landscape of Allusion: Garden and Landscape Architecture, 1450–1750
333 Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
336 The Age of Rembrandt
337 Court, Cloister, and City: Art and Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe
354 The Art of the Print
405 The Materials and Techniques of Painting
440 Seminar. Renaissance Art
442 Seminar. Old Master Drawings
446 Seminar. Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
448 Seminar. 17th- and 18th-Century Art
Classics
335 Studies in the Classical Tradition
Comparative Literature
314 The Renaissance
400 Seminar. Literary Imagination and the Image of History (Renaissance topics on occasion)
English
131 Shakespeare
205 Introduction to English Literature: From the 14th to the 18th Century
310, 311 Shakespeare I and II
312 Spenser and the Epic Romance
313 The 16th Century
314 The 17th Century
315 Milton
316 The English Drama to 1700
317, 318 Topics in the Renaissance
French and Italian
French
331 French Renaissance Literature and Culture
332 Topics in the French Middle Ages and Renaissance
341 French Classicism
352 Topics in 17th- and/or 18th-Century French Literature
Italian
221 Introduction to Italian Literature, Language, and Society: From the Beginnings to 1700
222 Introduction to Italian Literature, Language, and Society: From 1700 to the Present
303 Dante’s Inferno
306 The Italian Renaissance: Literature and Society
German
306 German Intellectual History
History
211 Europe from Antiquity to 1700
291 The Scientific Revolution and European Order, 1500–1750
303 Colonial Latin America to 1810
345 Europe at the Dawn of Modernity
347 The Origins of the Modern State
367 English Constitutional History
368 England from the Mid-15th Century to the Mid-17th Century
Music
221 Choral Music
232 Music in the Renaissance
270 Medieval and Renaissance Music from Original Notation
Near Eastern Studies
201 Introduction to the Middle East
Philosophy
303 Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz
332 Early Modern Philosophy
Politics
301 Ancient and Medieval Political Theory
303 Modern Political Theory
Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
Spanish
221 Introduction to Spanish Literature and Civilization from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
222 Introduction to Latin American Cultures
301 Topics in Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
305 Topics in Spanish Civilization of the Golden Age
306 Cervantes and His Age