The Medieval and Renaissance program at Barnard College enables students to acquire a thorough knowledge of the most important aspects of Medieval or Renaissance civilizations and to gain an awareness of the interdependence of historical and cultural developments.

All images are drawn from manuscripts/books owned by Barnard College or Columbia University and made available by Columbia's Digital Scriptorium. Images used with permission. The image in the top-left is from Barnard College's MS 1, a fourteenth-century Italian manuscript. (For more details, click here.)

Romancing The Text: Renaissance Translation and the Question of Genre

06/04/09

On December 4th, Barnard College will be hosting a one day faculty workshop on the above topic, organized by Professors Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller and Phillip John Usher, with financial support from the Mellon Foundation’s grant on ‘Faculty Focus on Translation.’ Participants will include Professor Tom Conley (Harvard University), Professor Hope Glidden (Tulane University), Marian Rothstein (Carthage College), and others. A full program will be available shortly.