The Crusades

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: 6 credits from HIST at the 2000 level; HIST 2001 recommended; or permission of the Department This course treats the European crusading movement from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, examining not only familiar expeditions to Palestine but also the use of crusades to sanction conquest and colonization along mediaeval European frontiers in Spain and northeastern Europe and to combat religious and political challenges to papal authority. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours)