This course is an introductory survey of European history from the last years of the Roman Empire to the Black Death in the middle of the fourteenth century. It was during these centuries that a distinctly European civilisation began to be forged. To be sure, it is an age of faith in which the order of society was believed to be modelled on the celestial hierarchy. But it is also the age that saw the beginnings of national states, the first stirrings of constitutional government and the emergence of modern notions of jurisprudence. Though most people were illiterate, this is the period that sees the beginning of universities, with their distinctive style of scholarship, and the rise of popular literature. It is also an age of enormous technical, social and cultural innovation: mechanical clocks, banks, insurance, algebra, citizen armies, distilled liquor, law and medical schools, eyeglasses, women playwrights, polyphonic music, the modern calendar, navigational maps, golf and soccer all trace their origin to the Middle Ages.
Three hours a week.
Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor. 09-09-2021-07-12-2021 Seminar Tuesday, Thursday 04:00PM - 05:15PM, McDougall Hall, Room 243
Three hours a week.
Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor. 09-09-2021-07-12-2021 Seminar Tuesday, Thursday 04:00PM - 05:15PM, McDougall Hall, Room 243
- Teacher: Richard Raiswell