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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.

This Month at CMRS

What's New?

Mark your calendars! The 2008-2009 CMRS conference schedule is now posted.
Watch the Sawyer Seminar Disputation series online! Videotapes of past sessions are now streaming. New clips are still being added so check back regularly.
Our Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar series on “Disputation: Arguing In and Out of the University” continues on May 15th --no registration necessary but call 310-825-1880 or email CMRS for information on access to the reading materials.
Cursor Mundi, a publication series of inter- and multi-disciplinary studies of the medieval and early modern world, produced under the auspices of CMRS and published by Brepols Publishers, is pleased to announce its newly released and upcoming titles.

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