HIS 3150 Rise of Christendom: Late Antique and Medieval Europe and Byzantium
Investigates the history of Europe and the Near East from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance. Students will study the political, economic, social, religious, artistic, and cultural development of the three successor civilizations to Greece and Rome: Byzantium, Islam, and Medieval Europe, with particular emphasis on the latter and the development of the era of Christendom and power of the medieval church and papacy.
Offered
Alternate years.