HI 314 - The High Middle Ages

This course covers the cultural flowering of medieval civilization, the development of the national monarchies and legal institutions, the conflict between church and state, the Black Death, Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War. We will read about the experiences of knights and their ladies, saints and heretics, townsmen and peasants, Muslim and Jews in medieval Christian society. While main focus of the course is on Western Europe we will also discuss important events in the Byzantine Empire.

Four credits.