HIST 112 - Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages

Upper Division

Prerequisites
Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.

A study of the years A.D. 1000 to 1450, that period in which the seeds of medieval culture, sown during the 700 preceding years, come into full flower-the age of the Crusades and chivalry, Romanesque and Gothic architecture, St. Francis, St. Thomas and Dante. The course is divided into thematic sections treating the relationship between the Christian and Muslim worlds, papal-imperial politics, social and economic changes, the rise of the universities, and the waning of the Middle Ages.

Core Curriculum Designation(s)
SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding

Term Offered
Offered in alternate years.

Course credits: 1