MRST 117 - High Middle Ages, 950-1300

Semester Offered: Spring
1.0 unit(s)

(Same as HIST 117) This course examines medieval Europe at both its cultural and political height. Topics of study include: the first universities; government from feudal lordships to national monarchies; courtly and popular culture; manorial life and town life; the rise of papal monarchy; new religious orders and spirituality among the laity. Relations with religious outsiders are explored in topics on European Jewry, heretics, and the Crusades. Nancy Bisaha.

Two 75-minute periods.