Rome to Renaissance

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Rome to Renaissance provides an introduction to European history during the Middle Ages, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century to the Renaissance of the later fourteenth and fifteenth century. The Middle Ages, once dismissed as a time of stagnation and superstition, is now regarded as an exciting period of ferment, innovation and creativity. The social, political and cultural foundations of modern Europe were established in the Middle Ages, and the modern era cannot be understood without an awareness of this formative millennium. But equally, the study of the Middle Ages often means encountering the strange and unfamiliar, and this too is an essential part of being a historian.