North American Neomedievalism: the U.S. East Coast and 16th-Century Spain

3 Credits

The fall of the Roman Empire certainly did not affect North America, but the European Middle Ages created several patterns of expansion that, with considerable transformations, are present in North America and all over the world. Through the study of Neomedievalism, students will be able to better understand today's national and international relations. We will read scholarship that helps us understand that it is not an accident that we have replicas of medieval villas and that we are increasingly interested in developing games and producing movies that replicate medieval life. We will also study why the failure and success of social and economic systems of the past have influenced modern civilizations and why the loaded concepts of "barbarian" and "foreign" have not disappeared. Taught in Spanish.