The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) promotes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of the period from Late Antiquity to the middle of the seventeenth century. CMRS sponsors and co-sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences, and hosts visiting professors, post-doctoral scholars, and other visiting researchers. The journal Viator is edited and published annually by CMRS, as is the graduate-student journal, Comitatus. A range of books and monographs have also been published under the Center's aegis. CMRS assists scholars, students, and the larger community to acquire a deeper understanding of issues rooted in the past that continue to resonate in our contemporary world.
“Perspective and Space: Developments in Art and Science in the Early Modern Era” is the title for the talk on May 10th by the CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Thomas Leinkauf.
On May 14, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Costantino Esposito discusses “Why Metaphysics Must be Baroque: the Catholic Ontology of Francisco Suárez, S.J.”
"UCLA is uniquely rich in scholars who work in Renaissance Latin," says Shane Butler who has just been awarded a $700,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will make UCLA a preeminent center in the country for the teaching and translation of Renaissance Latin. CMRS will administer the funding.
A shout out to Mia and all the 5th graders in Mrs. McVey's class! We're glad to hear about your good work and that our website has been a help for your studies of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Keep up the search for new reference sources!
The Center is very pleased to announce that the special issue of Viator honoring Richard and Mary Rouse, Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users, is available for order from Brepols Publishers. Richard and Mary Rouse are members of the UCLA CMRS whose teaching, scholarship, and manuscript donations have significantly furthered the research of medieval and Renaissance studies at UCLA.
A leaf from a fifteenth-century Parisian Book of Hours, with miniatures added in the lower margins by a French illuminator of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
From the manuscripts collection of Richard and Mary Rouse, UCLA Charles E. Young Library Department of Special Collections. R.H. & M.A. Rouse MS 82
