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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.

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What's New?

  • Peter Weller presents the last Voces Nostrates Lecture for this academic year on May 14. His topic is “Alberti in Exile: Padua, Leon Battista, and De pictura.”
  • “Some Reflections on the Landscapes by Nicolas Poussin” is Efraín Kristal's CMRS Roundtable topic on May 15.
  • The conference “From Earthly Pleasures to Princely Glories in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds” is May 17 and 18 in Royce 314.
  • Distinguished Visiting Scholar Yves Hersant speaks on May 21 about “Mirrors, Specularity, and Speculation in the Renaissance.”
  • On May 22, Hermann Haller introduces his edition of A Worlde of Wordes, the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary, published in England in 1598.
  • Distinguished Visiting Scholar Yves Hersant reflects on the topic “Allegory in the Renaissance” on May 23.
  • Scottish ethnologist and musicolgist James Porter discusses George Buchanan’s Poetic Psalm Paraphrases & Their Music Settings on May 24 at noon.
  • “The Monstrous and Marvelous in Myth” is the symposium presented in conjunction with Professor Joseph Nagy's CMRS Seminar on June 1.
  • The Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA) will have their conference on June 7.
  • The CMRS Annual Brochure for 2012-13 is now online as a PDF.

French 16th c. Book of Hours from the Rouse manuscript Collection.
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

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