Faculty from several disciplines and fields with an interest in things medieval and renaissance work together at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, sharing research ideas and teaching innovations. What makes our Consortium unique among medieval and renaissance programs is that we are both interdisciplinary and multicultural in our approach to the medieval/renaissance period of history (broadly defined as 300 C.E.-1600 C.E.). We include faculty from the arts, humanities, and languages, studying Europe, Byzantium, Japan, China, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Consequently, we have a strong focus on world/comparative themes and on cultural studies.

Consortium Mailing list

Consortium Meetings

• The Consortium meets several times in the semester to share research or hear guest speakers.
• Fall 2000 Events: Millenium Day Seminar, Thursday, October 12, 2000.
• Past Events: In Fall 1998, we participated in Hildegard Day, celebrating this esteemed but oft-forgotten thinker and writer in a day-long series of talks.

Consortium Website

This site includes a list of participating faculty and the courses they offer. If you are a faculty member on a UH campus and would like your name and medieval or renaissance courses added, please email Karen Jolly (History).

Participating Faculty and Staff

• Tamara Albertini, Assoc. Prof., Philosophy (Islamic and Renaissance)
• Lewis B. Andrews, Assoc. Prof., Art (western art history)
• Frank Ardolino, Prof., English (Renaissance literature and drama, Shakespeare)
• David Baker, Assoc. Prof., English (early modern)
• Jerry Bentley, Prof., History (Renaissance and Reformation Europe, world history)
• Elton Daniel, Prof., History (Islam, Middle East)
• Ned Davis, Assoc. Prof., History (middle China)
• Kathleen C. Falvey, Assoc. Prof., English (medieval language and literature, early Italian religious drama)
• Reinhard Friedrich, Prof., English (Renaissance, German and comparative literature)
• Dale Hall, Assoc. Prof., Music (musicology)
• Mark Heberle, Assoc. Prof., English (Renaissance literature, Spenser)
• Karen Jolly, Assoc. Prof., History (medieval Europe)
• Judith Kellogg, Assoc. Prof., English (medieval English and French, medieval women writers)
• Kathryn Klingebiel, Assoc. Prof., European Languages and Literature (French, medieval Welsh)
• Thomas Klobe, Prof., Art (medieval European and Islamic)
• Carol Langner, Slide Curator, Art
• Peter Nicholson, Prof., English (medieval literature, English language, Chaucer)
• Joan Perkins, graduate asst, English
• Todd Sammons, Assoc. Prof., English (Renaissance and 17th century literature, Milton, science fiction)
• Paul Varley, Sen Chair Prof., History (traditional Japan)
• Valerie Wayne, Prof., English (Shakespeare, Early Modern Women, Renaissance Literature, Feminist Theory, Textual Editing)

Courses Offered (under construction)

Art 371 Medieval Art (Klobe)

Arts of Europe from early Christian era to Renaissance. Every other year.

Art 470B Early Renaissance in Italy (Andrews)

This covers the art of the 14th and 15th centuries in Italy, mostly Florence (from Giotto to Botticelli). It is usually offered once a year, in the fall.

Art 470C Renaissance Art: Northern Europe (Andrews)

This course deals with Renaissance art north of the Alps. The emphasis is on Netherlandish art in the 15th and 16th centuries (Van Eyck to Bosch), but the 16th century in Germany is also covered (Durer, Grunewald). The course usually ends with Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It is offered every few years.

Art 470D High Renissance and Mannerism in Italy (Andrews)

This covers the art of the 16th century in Florence, Rome and Venice, including such artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, Giorgione and Titian. It is usually offered once a year, in the spring.

Art 471 Baroque and Rococo Art (Andrews)

This covers the 17th and 18th centuries. It is usually offered once a year.

Art 493 The Art of Islam (Klobe)

Eng. 251: British Literature to 1800

Eng. 253: World Literature to 1600

Eng. 335 Background of Western Literature

covers Classical, Biblical, and medieval, esp. Arthurian romance

Eng. 391 The Legacy of King Arthur (Kellogg)

Honors seminar

English 421 English Drama to 1642 (Ardolino)

English 442 Chaucer (Kellogg)

English 445 and 446 Early and Late Shakespeare (Ardolino, Wayne)

English 451 Medieval English Literature (Kellogg)

English 496 Medieval Women Writers (Kellogg)

English 496 Renaissance Women Writers (Wayne)

English 660S Chaucer and His Backgrounds (Kellogg)

English 675N Arthurian Literature (Kellogg)

English 675X Jacobean Drama (Wayne)

English 735W Medieval Women Writers (Kellogg)

English 757 Seminar in Shakespeare (Wayne)

English 775C Re-Reading Chaucer (Kellogg)

English 775X Textual/Sexual Congress: Conversations among Early Modern Writers (Wayne)

European Languages 680D Topics in Literature: Middle Ages (Burgwinkle)

This one is in English and covers whatever the prof. wants to cover. It has not been offered in quite some time but will soon be, I hope. I intend to use it to offer a course on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrach and some others that fall into the pukas between our languages.

European Languages 682 Masterpieces of Medieval Welsh Literature (Klingebiel)

French 408 Masterpieces of Medieval Literature (Burgwinkle, Klingebiel)

This covers all genres, usually 12-13th century concentration. None of the works taught in this course overlap with the graduate seminar (FR 672).

FR 671 History of the French Language (Klingebiel)

Development from Latin, through the centuries, with great attention paid to the medieval developments.

French 672B, C, and D - Seminar in Medieval Literature (Burgwinkle)

The course is alpha to allow for separate courses on epic and romance, drama and prose, and lyric poetry. We cannot offer the course often enough to specialize like this and, instead, usually mix all genres in the seminar when it is offered every fourth semester. TAUGHT IN FRENCH.

History 335 European Early Middle Ages (Jolly)

History 336 European High Middle Ages (Jolly)

History 433 Medieval Cultures (various faculty and topics): The Crusades (Summer 1999), Warriors in Japan and Europe (Spring 2000)

History 434 Christianity in a World Context to 1500 (Jolly)

Spanish 660 Medieval Spanish Literature

Links to Medieval Sites on the Web

• Labyrinth (Central clearing house for medieval studies)
• ORB (Online Resource Book for medieval studies)
• Medieval Sourcebook
• NetSerf
• Online Medieval and Classical Literature (OMACL)
• Barony of the Western Seas (Society for Creative Anachronism, Hawaii Branch)
• Mediev-l History discussion list archives
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