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4.00 Credits
A study of the development of civilization in ancient Italy from prehistorical beginnings until the establishment of the Roman Empire by Augustus. Special emphasis will be given to the foundation legends of the city, and the civil disorders of the final century of the Republic to Empire. The nature, extent, and interpretation of ancient evidence for historical research will receive careful attention.
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4.00 Credits
Course will examine the geography and the origins of Byzantium and explore the evolution of Byzantine history from the dedication of Constantinople in 330 to its fall in 1453. The course starts with a geographical and historical background that illustrates questions of historical continuity and processes of transformation. We will then proceed chronologically, focusing on the crucial historical junctions that influenced and shaped the region today. Students will become familiar with the sources of Byzantine history and understand the historical place allocated for Byzantium within World civilizations. This course will also give insights into Byzantine art architecture, literature, and theology.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the ideology of slavery in ancient Greece, with a specific focus upon Athenian evidence. It also considers how the Greeks perceived non-Greeks (barbarians), the most common victims of Greek slavery. Evidence examined will include representations of slaves and barbarians in Greek literature, epigraphy, and art.
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4.00 Credits
The legacy of late-medieval feudal, and social disorder, the emergence of a sovereign state, the Reformation, the religious and constitutional settlements, the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution, are studied in the context of social and economic change.
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4.00 Credits
The rise and decline of the Roman Empire from the age of Augustus to the end of the fifth century, including the development of Roman government, culture and society. Examines the growth of Christianity and the interaction of the later Empire with the "barbarian" nations, and their effects on the transformation of the western Empire into the late antique world and the early Middle Ages.
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4.00 Credits
Study of the political, social, economic, and intellectual life of Europe from the Fall of Rome to A.D. 1000, with emphasis on the Germanic invasions, the rise of Christianity, feudal society, and manorialism.
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4.00 Credits
European society and culture from 1000 to 1450, including patterns of thought, the founding of the universities, and the rise of cities and the feudal monarchies.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the changes created by the introduction and spread of the Bubonic Plague in a large population. Begins with examination of how diseases are socially, culturally, and historically constructed, and then charts the impact of the plague in the first three centuries of its spread. Course analyzes social history of the period and how responses to disease intersected with other European wide developments.
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4.00 Credits
Study of the cultural life of western Europe from the 14th through the 16th centuries in its historical setting, with emphasis on Petrarch, Machiavelli, Galileo, and Erasmus through a study of their works; and a special concentration on Italy.
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4.00 Credits
Examines lay piety and institutions of the Catholic Church during the late Middle Ages, the rise of Protestant doctrines and faiths in 16th- and 17th-century Europe; analyzes impact among various social groups, cultural manifestations of religious upheaval, religious and political ambitions, and current movements of Christian humanism and Catholic and Counter-Reformations. Covers late 15th-century until 1648.
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