Portland-State-University 2015-2016 Bulletin

Hst 355 Late Medieval Europe, 1100-1450

An examination of the late Middle Ages through primary sources with an emphasis on cultural, social, political, and intellectual transformations. Subjects to be treated include the twelfth-century cultural "renaissance," the emergence of the European state and papal monarchy, the rise of religious dissent and anti-Semitism, the transformation of medieval spirituality, the Crusades, European expansion and external encounters, growth of cities and the university, the debate between faith and reason, the Black Death, and late medieval decline.

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