HIST 201 - Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 325-1198

FDR: HU
Credits: 3

Examines, through lectures and discussions, the culture and society of late Roman antiquity; the rise of Christianity and the formation of the Western church; Europe’s relations with Byzantium and Islam, Germanic culture, monasticism, Charlemagne’s empire; the Vikings, feudalism, manorialism, agriculture and the rise of commerce; gender roles and family structures; warfare and the Crusades; the growth of the papacy and feudal monarchies, the conflict between church and state; the revival of legal studies and theology; and the development of chivalric and romantic ideals in the cultural renewal of the 11th and 12th centuries. Peterson. Planned Offering: Fall