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Your search for courses · during 24FA, 25WI, 25SP · tagged with HIST Ancient & Medieval · returned 7 results

  • CLAS 240 Rome: From Village to Superpower 6 credits

    This class will investigate how Rome rose from a humble village of outcasts and refugees to become the preeminent power in the entire Mediterranean. We will trace Rome’s political evolution from kings to the Republic, alongside their gradual takeover of the Italian peninsula. We will study how Rome then swiftly overpowered what had been the most powerful kingdoms in the Mediterranean and established themselves as dominant. Who were these Romans and what were their political, military, religious, and social systems that enabled them to accomplish so much? What critical events shaped their development and ultimately led to total political control of the Mediterranean world?

    • Spring 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies CX, Cultural/Literature
    • CL: 200 level HIST Ancient & Medieval HIST Pre-Modern CLAS Historical Analysis
    • CLAS  240.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLanguage & Dining Center 104 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • HIST 100 Migration and Mobility in the Medieval North 6 credits

    Why did barbarians invade? Traders trade? Pilgrims travel? Vikings raid? Medieval Europe is sometimes caricatured as a world of small villages and strong traditions that saw little change between the cultural high-water marks of Rome and the Renaissance. In fact, this was a period of dynamic innovation, during which Europeans met many familiar challenges–environmental change, religious and cultural conflict, social and political competition–by traveling or migrating to seek new opportunities. This course will examine mobility and migration in northern Europe, and students will be introduced to diverse methodological approaches to their study by exploring historical and literary sources, archaeological evidence and scientific techniques involving DNA and isotopic analyses.

    Held for new first year students

    • Fall 2024
    • AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1 IS, International Studies
    • Student is a member of the First Year First Term class level cohort. Students are only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information.

    • ARCN Pertinent CL: 100 level HIST Ancient & Medieval HIST Pre-Modern MARS Supporting EUST Transnational Support
    • HIST  100.03 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • HIST 201 Rome Program: Building Power and Piety in Medieval Italy, C.E. 300-1150 6 credits

    Through site visits, on-site projects, and readings, this course explores the ways in which individuals and communities attempted to give physical and visual form to their religious beliefs and political ambitions through their use of materials, iconography, topography, and architecture. We will also examine how the material legacies of imperial Rome, Byzantium, and early Christianity served as both resources for and constraints on the political, cultural, and religious evolution of the Italian peninsula and especially Rome and its environs from late antiquity through the twelfth century. Among the principal themes will be the development of the cult of saints, the development of the papal power and authority, Christianization, reform, pilgrimage, and monasticism.

    Open only to participants in Carleton OCS Rome Program

    • Spring 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • Acceptance in the Carleton OCS History in Rome Program.

    • ARCN Pertinent CL: 200 level EUST Country Specific HIST Ancient & Medieval HIST Pre-Modern MARS Core Course MARS Supporting RELG Christian Traditions RELG Pertinent Course RELG XDept Pertinent
    • HIST  201.07 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
  • HIST 201F Rome Program: Building Power and Piety in Medieval Italy-Latin 2 credits

    This course will offer reading and discussion of historical materials related to HIST 201 in their original Latin.

    Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Rome Program.

    • Spring 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry
    • Acceptance in the Carleton OCS History in Rome Program AND student has completed the following course(s): LATN 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 205 on the Carleton Latin Placement exam.

    • HIST 201: Rome Program: Building Power and Piety in Medieval Italy, C.E. 300-1150
    • CL: 200 level HIST Ancient & Medieval Latin Minor Related Courses MARS Supporting
    • HIST  201F.07 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
  • HIST 206 Rome Program: The Eternal City in Time: Structure, Change, and Identity 6 credits

    This course will explore the lived experience of the city of Rome in the twelfth-sixteenth centuries. Students will study buildings, urban forms, surviving artifacts, and textual and other visual evidence to understand how politics, power, and religion (both Christianity and Judaism) mapped onto city spaces. How did urban challenges and opportunities shape daily life? How did the memory of the past influence the present? How did the rural world affect the city and vice versa? Students will work on projects closely tied to the urban fabric.

    OCS Rome Program

    • Spring 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • Acceptance in the Carleton OCS History in Rome Program.

    • CL: 200 level EUST Country Specific HIST Ancient & Medieval HIST Pre-Modern MARS Core Course MARS Supporting DGAH Cross Disciplinary Collaboration DGAH Humanistic Inquiry
    • HIST  206.07 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • Open only to students participating in History, Religion, and Urban Change in Medieval and Renaissance Rome Program

  • HIST 231 Mapping the World Before Mercator 6 credits

    This course will explore early maps primarily in medieval and early modern Europe. After an introduction to the rhetoric of maps and world cartography, we will examine the functions and forms of medieval European and Islamic maps and then look closely at the continuities and transformations in map-making during the period of European exploration. The focus of the course will be on understanding each map within its own cultural context and how maps can be used to answer historical questions. We will work closely with the maps in Gould Library Special Collections to expand campus awareness of the collection.

    Extra time is required for a one-time map show in the library which we will schedule at the beginning of term.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Applied CL: 200 level HIST Ancient & Medieval HIST Pre-Modern MARS Core Course MARS Supporting SDSC XDept Elective DGAH Cross Disciplinary Collaboration EUST Transnational Support HIST Early Modern/Modern Europe DGAH Humanistic Inquiry
    • HIST  231.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • HIST 233 The Byzantine World and Its Neighbors 750-ca. 1453 6 credits

    The Byzantine world (eighth-fifteenth centuries) was a zone of fascinating tensions, exchanges, and encounters. Through a wide variety of written and visual evidence, we will examine key features of its history and culture: the nature of government; piety and religious controversy; art and music; the evolving relations with the Latin West, Armenia, the Slavic North and West, and the Dar al-Islam (the Abbasids and Seljuk and Ottoman Turks); gender; economic life; and social relations.Extra Time for special events and a group project (ecumenical council).

    Extra Time for special events and a group project (ecumenical council).

    • Winter 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning WR2 Writing Requirement 2 CX, Cultural/Literature
    • ACE Theoretical ARCN Pertinent ARTH Pre-1800 CL: 200 level HIST Ancient & Medieval HIST Asia HIST Pre-Modern MARS Core Course MARS Supporting MEST Supporting Group 1 EUST Transnational Support
    • HIST  233.00 Winter 2025

    • Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
    • FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am

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