Europe During the Mediaeval Era

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course surveys the history of mediaeval civilization from c.300 to c.1300. By investigating the changing ways the peoples of western Eurasia organized their political, social, and economic relationships and pursued, and frequently contested, ideals of learning, sacredness, and beauty, it provides an introduction to the methods historians use to construe the past, giving particular attention to the close reading and interpretation of contemporary documents. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours) (Exclusion: HIST 2000; any version of HIST 2001 previously offered with a different title)