MEDIEVAL LAW AND SOCIETY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the central historical developments related to law and European social transformations in the years between 500 and 1500. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe how medieval conditions of thought and forms of social organization made the period's laws intelligible to those that practiced them, those that enforced them, and those that lived under them. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze how legal practices and frameworks of power from the medieval period form the foundation for aspects of our own world. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess significant interdisciplinary scholarship on medieval law. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the central historical developments related to law and European social transformations in the years between 500 and 1500. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe how medieval conditions of thought and forms of social organization made the period's laws intelligible to those that practiced them, those that enforced them, and those that lived under them. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze how legal practices and frameworks of power from the medieval period form the foundation for aspects of our own world. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess significant interdisciplinary scholarship on medieval law. Audience: Graduate