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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

AH 347 - Saints, Kings and Barbarians


This course will focus on images of power, piety, and belief in the European Middle Ages (c.200 - 1066), from the Late Antique world to Charlemagne and his successors. Rural landscapes, town planning, and the role of archeology in understanding medieval art and life will be explored, along with the evolution of including churches, mosques, monasteries, cathedrals, palaces and houses, and the objects and images that filled them.

Credits: 4

Prerequisites/Restrictions: Not open to First-Year students without Permission of Instructor

Core: Literature & The Arts AND Catholic Intellectual Traditions