HIS 232 - The Middle Ages of the Medieval World, Experimental

1. Discuss the cultural, religious, social, intellectual, political and military contributions of high and late medieval people.
2. Discuss the basic political and social history of the world of the high and late Middle Ages.
3. Evaluate the varying forms of government developed by medieval people and rulers.
4. Analyze the tensions between religious and secular authorities and discuss the positive and negative aspects of these tensions.
5. Discuss high and late medieval intellectual culture and trace both its antecedents and its subsequent development and influence on the Renaissance and Reformation.
6. Compare and contrast the ways in which the mature medieval European worldview both differed from, and was similar to, the modern worldview.
7. Analyze medieval art, architecture, literature and music and explain the ways in which these arts express the culture from which they sprang.

1. Rome, Christianity and the Early Middle Ages
2. Economic, social, military and technological Issues
3. The Crusades
4. Medieval religion: Friars; Innocent III and the imperial papacy
5. Medieval France: Political and Military History 987-1314
6. Medieval England: Political and Military History 1066-1307
7. Medieval universities, Literature, Music and Art
8. Medieval Europe Wars (i.e.: Hundred Year’s War, War of the Roses, Agincourt)
9. Social unrest: the “calamitous fourteenth century” and the Black Death; Great Schism
10. Medieval Spain and the Mediterranean world

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