HIST 327 - Outcasts And Otherness in Late Medieval Europe, 1300- 1600

Institution:

Widener University-Main Campus

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Description:

This course looks at ways in which late medieval Christian Europe attempted to enforce dominant social, religious, and sexual norms by defining standards of normalcy and punishing those who deviated from those standards. Students read and discuss historical monographs on witches, demons, heretics, sodomites, peasant visionaries, and portentous monstrosities, among other outcasts. Students also write papers that investigate historical and contemporary manifestations of otherness. 3 semester hours

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.widener.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 499-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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