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Academic Year 2005/2006
Medieval Europe
HIST 201 FA
This course provides an introduction to the European Middle Ages, and is recommended prior to more advanced work. It covers Western Europe from the end of the Roman republic and the rise of Christianity to the eve of the
Protestant Reformation (so to circa 1500). A central theme will be the place and function of religions in Rome, then in the political formations that followed it. Every fourth class will be devoted to a discussion of the
primary sources.
MAJOR READINGS
C. W. Hollister, MEDIEVAL EUROPE (McGraw Hill) -- optional
Thomas Aquinas, ON LAW, MORALITY, AND POLITICS (Hackett)
Virgil, THE AENEID, tr. Robert Fitzgerald (Vintage)
Anonymous, BEOWULF, tr. Michael Alexander
(Penguin)
Brian Tierney, THE
CONFLICT OF CHURCH AND STATE (Toronto)
Anonymous, THE SONG OF ROLAND, tr. Glyn Burgess (Penguin)
Machiavelli, THE PRINCE (Norton edition)
Chrétien, ARTHURIAN ROMANCES, tr. W. W. Kibler (Penguin)
A reader
of primary sources
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
1 mid-term exam; 1 final; 2 papers.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Shaw,Gary
- Times: .M.W.F. 09:00AM-09:50AM; Location: PAC001;
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 50)
- SR. major: 3 Jr. major: 4
- SR. non-major: 6 Jr. non-major: 7 SO: 10 FR: 20
Special Attributes:
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Last Updated on MAR-30-2006
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