The Evolution of Christianity, 300-1500

This course surveys the contested and contingent development and subsequent rupture of the traditions, thought, and institutions that came to define pre-modern European Christianity from 300 to 1500. Chronological units include Imperial Christianity, Early Medieval Institutionalization, High Medieval Christendom, and late Medieval Crisis and Reform, while addressing themes such as war, women and gender, devotional practice, race and religion, and processes of institutionalization.