HST 330 - Medieval History

three credits C,G
Prerequisites:
Traces the history of Europe from the waning days of the Roman Empire through the dawn of a new era in the early 16th century. The focus will be on the slow evolution of political and religious power - lordship and monarchy, empire and church - and the experience of medieval Europeans as subjects of this power. Students study the complex interplay between official and popular religion, the changing understandings of nobility, the relationship between Christians and non-Christians, and the place of minorities - heretics, religious minorities, lepers, vagabonds - in a hostile world.