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.
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.
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
