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

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2011

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.