MEDVL 2130

MEDVL 2130

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

It's bad enough to run up against a border: at least you know where you stand. The frontier, however -- that fuzzy, murky zone that envelops the border while making its precise contours invisible -- is far more ambiguous, dangerous ground to tread. People, ideas, and other contraband criss-cross it; men (and sometimes women) make their own law; cultures clash and conspire together. At the margins of Europe -- Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, Poland, Germany, the Low Countries, Spain, Sicily, the Levant -- medieval people discovered what every Trekkie knows: final frontiers, spaces of both oppression and opportunity. This course will explore some of the exchanges, friendly and otherwise, that took place at the edges of the medieval world, seeding many of the most radical developments which shaped the modern world.

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (CA-AS)

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2742

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16555 MEDVL 2130   LEC 001

  • 16556 MEDVL 2130   DIS 201

  • 16557 MEDVL 2130   DIS 202