Medieval Europe I: Late Antiquity to the First Crusade

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course will outline the main events, intellectual English Literature/History developments, and artistic achievements that shaped the history and culture of Europe and Byzantium from the IV-XI centuries. The course will focus on issues such as the Migration Period and the political restructuring of Europe, Constantinople, and Eastern Roman Empire; the Christianization of Europe; Feudalism; the rise of Islam and the Arabic Caliphate, its relations with Europe and Byzantium; medieval heresies; the Macedonian Renaissance in Byzantium; and movements for the reform of the Catholic Church, Gregorian Reformation.