How do we model thinking, and in what sense does our thought have objects? I review two models of thinking from the medieval Scholastic tradition, which I call the "gaze + sign" model (in Augustine ...

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 340B Trent Hall Campus Box 90656 Durham, NC 27708 (919) 681-8883 jmems@duke.edu ...

Dr. Astrid Giugni (English and Information Science + Studies) leads the Bass Connections project “Ethical Consumption before Capitalism,” which brings undergraduate STEM and Humanities students ...

A graduation dinner and celebration was held in May for the 2025 Medieval and Renaissance Studies graduates with their parents and favorite professors in a private dining room at Café Parizade in ...

The following departments and programs are closely affiliated with Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Faculty teaching MEDREN courses come from these departments, and we offer a Focus program every ...

The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is organized entirely by graduate students to promote graduate student work. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members are more than welcome to ...

Robert Pasnau, Duke Philosophy's Mahoney Visiting Scholar, will be giving a Seminar entitled "Medieval Voluntarism and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale".

Robert Pasnau, Duke's Visiting Mahoney Scholar will be giving a talk entitled: "How to Control Your Will and Succeed in Life" Abstract. Controlling our wills, by common consent, is one of the keys to ...

In premodern philosophy, simple contemplative acts such as "thinking about horseness" are often the main focus when discussing the metaphysics of thinking. But what should we make of other ...

The course explores the critical analysis of the creative products of the human intellect in mystical experiences including the symbolic stories of Avicenna, al-Gazali, Ibn Tufail, Suhrawardi & Mulla ...

In a classical moral theory like that of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), which centers on the moral status of discrete actions performed by individual persons, it can seem hard to find room for the… read ...

How to do Microhistory: Using Carlos Ginzburg's "The Cheese and the Worms" as a guide. Tom Robisheaux is Professor of History in the Duke History Dept. He is an historian of early modern Europe with ...