Introduction to the Medieval World

Harvard FAS

Join us for a journey through the cultures, peoples, objects, and ideas of the millennium commonly described as "medieval", extending from the reorganization of the Eurasian world in the fourth century to its transformation in the fifteenth. With primary documents in translation and medieval books and objects in Harvard's collections as your guides, you will travel virtually through a series of medieval spaces and places—Jewish, Christian, and Islamic houses of worship, homes, palaces,…