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This course examines significant political, social, economic, religious and cultural developments of ancient Near East, ancient India, Greco-Roman civilizations, ancient and medieval China, ancient Japan, Islamic civilization, ancient African and American societies, and Medieval and Renaissance Europe. As beliefs and social- political concepts and practices of various civilizations formulated and developed during this period still heavily influence our modern world, this course provides a foundation to our understanding of the highly interdependent and interrelated contemporary world. This course fulfills the Historical Studies requirement in the core curriculum.
Origins of the middles ages: the late Roman Empire; Germanic migrations and settlements; the Frankish Dynasties of the Merovingians and Carolingians; Anglo-Saxon England; development of the early Medieval Papacy and Western Church. Recovery of Byzantine Empire; Islamic World under Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates.
B.A. Franciscan University M.A. Catholic University of America Doctoral Program, University of Toronto.
Ms. Brodeur specializes in medieval and early modern Europe, medieval Islamic religion and culture; European social history; cultural and religious exchange between Europe and Muslim regions.
