The collaborative master’s in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MDR) has two goals: To offer at the graduate level a multi-disciplinary education in Medieval and Renaissance Studies;
To teach students the theoretical approaches and methods of research specific to the study of the period.
Since the 16th century, study of the middle ages implies studying a ‘middle’, or intermediary period, seen as standing between two great civilizations: Roman antiquity and the modern western world. This definition has had a major impact on scholarship, crystallizing a periodization that has now become traditional in most of the humanities.
中世界和文艺复兴研究联合硕士专业有以下两个办学目标：提供中世纪和文艺复兴研究领域的多学科硕士课程；教授有关该时期的具体理论和研究方法。
自16世纪起，中世纪研究就意味着研究一个过渡时期，即古罗马和现代西方这两个伟大文明之间的中间时期。这一定义有着重大学术意义，在绝大多数人文学科研究中已经成为传统的时期划分方式。