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CLAS 122 The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory: From the Beginning to the Classical Age 6 credits
“Never say that prehistory is not history.” The late Fernand Braudel had it right. Over 99 percent of human history predates the written word, and this course examines one of the world’s most diverse, yet unifying environments–the Mediterranean Sea–from the earliest populations around its shores to the emergence of the Classical world of the Greeks and Romans. Neanderthals and modern humans, the first artists and farmers, multiculturalism among Greeks, Phoenicians, Etruscans, and others… These are some of the topics to be covered as we study the precursors and roots of what would become “Western” civilization.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry
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CLAS 122.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CLAS 122.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
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CLAS 220 From the Horn to Melqart’s Pillars: African Perspectives in the Ancient Mediterranean 6 credits
Histories of the classical world often focus on the cultures of Greece and Rome, situated on the northern shores of the Mediterranean. But what can we discover if we ‘flip’ our map of the Mediterranean, putting African perspectives on top? In this class, we will engage with the artistic, literary, and archaeological evidence left to us by the Mediterranean societies of classical Africa, as well as the ways in which these societies are depicted by Greek and Roman sources. Topics covered include ancient Egypt, the colonial “middle ground” of North Africa, and other African cultures on the Mediterranean periphery.
- Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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CLAS 220.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 203 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CLAS 227 Greek History: The Greek Polis 6 credits
The Classical Greek world, with its system of independent city-states, saw the development of unprecedented political structures and a flowering of art, literature, and philosophy, all in the midst of almost constant military conflict. The Greeks are credited with inventing tragedy, democracy, science, and rhetoric (among other things), but their history is both complex and contested. This course examines the period from 750 to 399 B.C.E. and addresses fundamental questions about the development of Greek political, military, and social systems; the conflict between common Greek and local identities; and how we can use limited sources to reconstruct the past.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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CLAS 227.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CLAS 227.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CLAS 227.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CLAS 227.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CLAS 229 Warlords and the Collapse of the Roman Republic 6 credits
The class will investigate the factors that led a Republican government that had lasted for 700 years to fall apart, leading to twenty years of civil war that only ended with the rise of a totalitarian dictatorship. We will look at the economic, social, military, and religious factors that played key roles in this dynamic political period. We will also trace the rise and influence of Roman warlords, politicians, and personalities and how they changed Roman politics and society. We will study many of the greatest characters in Roman history, as well as the lives of everyday Romans in this turbulent time.
- Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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CLAS 229.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CLAS 229.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 133 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CLAS 229.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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? Students who previously took Classics 228 cannot take Classics 240.
- Fall 2018, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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CLAS 240.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CLAS 240.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- M, WBoliou 104 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FBoliou 104 3:10pm-4:10pm
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CLAS 240.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2021
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 100.03 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 100.05 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 100.05 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 131 Saints, Sinners, and Philosophers in Late Antiquity 6 credits
In Late Antiquity, Christians and pagans asked with particular intensity: How should I live? What should be my relationship to wealth, family, power, and the world? How are mind and body related in the good life and how can this relationship be controlled and directed? What place had education in the pursuit of the good life? Was the best life to be achieved through material renunciation, psychological transformation, or both? We will ask these and many other questions of a wide array of primary sources written originally in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Armenian while employing the insights of modern scholarship.
Extra time
- Winter 2017, Winter 2021, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 131.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
- FLeighton 301 2:20pm-3:20pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 131.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 131.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 136 The Global Middle Ages 6 credits
Encounter, interaction, and communication across space and between cultures are fundamental parts of the human story yet are often marginalized when we use national, regional, or religious frameworks to shape our study. In this course, we will center our investigation of the medieval time period (roughly 500-1500CE) on interactions among cultures and peoples across Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas. We will think comparatively about how peoples around the globe approached similar questions and problems and ask how a global approach helps improve our understanding of this dynamic and creative period. Extra time required for one field trip.
Extra time for one field trip
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HIST 137 Early Medieval Worlds 6 credits
Through the intensive exploration of a variety of distinct “worlds” in the early Middle Ages, this course offers an introduction to formative political, social, religious, and cultural developments in Europe between c.300 and c.1050. We will pay special attention to the structures, ideologies, practices, and social dynamics that shaped and energized communities large and small. We will also focus on developing the ability to observe and interpret various kinds of textual, visual, and material primary sources.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 137.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤 · Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 137.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 236 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 236 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 201 Rome Program: Community and Communication in Medieval Italy, CE 300-1250 6 credits
Through site visits, on-site projects, and readings, this course explores the ways in which people in Italy from late antiquity through the thirteenth century sought to communicate political, religious, and civic messages through combinations of words, images, objects, and structures. What are the “arts of power and piety” and when and why are they used? How do people use spaces and images to educate, to challenge, to honor, to remember, or to forget? How can materials create and transmit meaning and order? How do people combine creativity and tradition to maintain and enrich the worlds they inhabit?
OCS Rome Program
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance to Carleton Rome Program
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HIST 206 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. We 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 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Enrollment in OCS program
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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 during 6a which we will schedule at the beginning of term.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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HIST 231.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 231.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
- M, WLeighton 303 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 303 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 233 Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 843-1453 6 credits
Heir to the Roman Empire, Byzantium is one of the most enduring and fascinating polities of the medieval world. Through a wide variety of written and visual evidence, we will examine key features of Byzantine history and culture such as the nature of imperial rule; piety and religious controversy; Byzantium’s evolving relations with the Latin West, Armenia, the Slavic North, and the Dar al-Islam (the Abbasids and Seljuk and Ottoman Turks); economic life; and Byzantine social relations. Extra time may be required for group projects.
Extra Time
- Fall 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 233.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 233.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 235 Bringing the English Past to (Virtual) Life 6 credits
This course will explore the history of England from the time of the Tudors through the Industrial Revolution, with a particular focus on the history of poverty and social welfare. We will use new technologies to develop innovative ways to teach and learn about the past. Using a specially designed digital archive, students will construct life stories of paupers, politicians and intellectuals. One day per week, the class will work in a computer lab constructing 3-Dimensional, virtual institutions and designing computer game scenarios that utilize their research to recreate the lived experience of the poor.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 235.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤 · Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 138 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 138 12:00pm-1:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 235.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 236 The Worlds of Hildegard of Bingen 6 credits
Author, composer, artist, abbess, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) used words, images and sound to share unique mystical experiences with her community and the broader world. At the same time, developments in Christian-Jewish relations, church-state relations, and the arts made the Holy Roman Empire a dynamic environment for religious, cultural, and political innovation. Through close examination of Hildegard’s works (writings, images, and music) and her contemporaries informed by current scholarship, we will investigate this period of creativity, conflict, and possibility, especially for women. Extra time relates to a collaboration with the early music ensemble Sequentia and work with Carleton Special Collections.
Extra time relates to a collaboration with the early music ensemble Sequentia and work with Carleton Special Collections
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HIST 236.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 238 The Viking World 6 credits
In the popular imagination, Vikings are horn-helmeted, blood-thirsty pirates who raped and pillaged their way across medieval Europe. But the Norse did much more than loot, rape, and pillage; they cowed kings and fought for emperors, explored uncharted waters and settled the North Atlantic, and established new trade routes that revived European urban life. In this course, we will separate fact from fiction by critically examining primary source documents alongside archaeological, linguistic and place-name evidence. Students will share their insights with each other and the world through two major collaborative digital humanities projects over the course of the term.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WAnderson Hall 329 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 329 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 246 The Material World of the Anglo-Saxons 6 credits
This course explores the world of Anglo-Saxon England from Rome’s decline through the Norman Conquest (c.400-1066) through the lens of material culture. These six centuries witnessed dramatic transformations, including changing environmental conditions, ethnic migrations, the coming of Christianity, waning Roman influence, the rise of kingdoms, and the emergence of new agricultural and economic regimes. We will look beyond the kings and priests at the top of society by analyzing objects people made and used, buildings they built, and human remains they buried alongside primary and secondary written sources. Students will gain experience in how to write history from “things.”
- Spring 2018, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 246.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 235 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 246.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 289 Gender and Ethics in Late Medieval France 3 credits
Acknowledged by contemporaries as one of the leading intellects of her time, Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431) was an author of unusual literary range, resilience, and perceptiveness. In addition to composing romances, poetry, quasi-autobiographical works, royal biography, and political theory, she became one of the most articulate critics of the patriarchy and misogyny of her world and a critical voice in defense of female capability. Using Christine’s writings along with other contemporary documents as a foundation, we will explore perceptions of gender, the analysis and resistance to misogyny, the ethics love and personal relations, and the exercise of patriarchal power (and resistance to it) in domestic and public spheres in late medieval France.
- Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 289.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 332 Image Makers and Breakers in the Premodern World 6 credits
What roles do images play in premodern societies? What are these images thought to be and to do? Why, at particular moments, have certain groups attempted to do away with images either completely or in specific settings? How do images create and threaten communities and how is the management of the visual integrated with and shaped by other values, structures, and objectives? This course will examine these and related questions by looking in depth at image-making and veneration and their opponents in a range of case studies (from the medieval west, Byzantium, Muslim lands, and Protestant Europe) and by examining theoretical discussions of images, vision, and cognition from the fourth through sixteenth centuries. This course is discussion intensive and each student will develop a research project on a topic of their own design.
- Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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Previous history course or instructor consent
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HIST 332.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 334 Voyages of Understanding 6 credits
This seminar will examine the phenomenon of travel across historical periods and around the globe. We will look at motivations for travel; ideas about place, space, and geography; travel as site of encounter and conflict with peoples of different religions, ethnicities, and cultures; the effect of travel on individual and group identity; and representations of travel, cultural contact, and geography in texts, maps, and images. We will work on key research skills, and each student will carry out an original research project leading to a ca. 25-page research paper.
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HIST 334.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 344 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Applies to multiple history fields. Consult the instructor.
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LATN 235 The Bacchanalian Affair 6 credits
In 186 BC stories of wild and debauched secret religious rites being celebrated under cover of night sparked panic in Rome, which led to a brutal state suppression of the cult. Was this a crackdown on impious behavior or political oppression? Over the course of the term we will translate three sources of evidence to determine what actually happened: the Roman historian Livy’s scintillating and outrageous account of this conspiracy; works by the Roman comedic playwright Plautus that might have shaped Livy’s storytelling; and the Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus, a detailed inscription found in southern Italy discussing the new laws Rome passed to suppress the cult.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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LATN 235.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 305 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 305 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 235 Religion and Identity in the Medieval Middle East 6 credits
This course explores the emergence and formation of Islam as a faith in the medieval Middle East (sixth-eleventh centuries) and its impact on social relations and identities in the complex and evolving cultural and religious communities that populated this multifaceted region. Through close reading and discussion of primary sources (in translation) (Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Persian, Greek, and Latin) and scholarship, we will situate the development of Islam in the context of religious and social change in this period and to understand Islam’s role in the transformation of life in the region.
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RELG 235.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤 · William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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