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Ancient and Medieval History

Six 100-level credit units fulfill your history program requirements, while an additional 100-level 3 credit units may be used as a junior elective in meeting your degree requirements. Only 9 credit units may be taken for credit at the introductory (100-) level).

INTRODUCTORY COURSES (100-LEVEL)

The department offers 100-level survey courses dealing with major historical periods and developments. In addition to the study of basic information, students examine conflicting interpretations and historiographical debates on controversial issues, and the diverse scholarly methods used by historians in their study and interpretation of the past. Six credit units earned in any of these courses fulfil the prerequisite for the study of history in any 200-level course.

Instruction normally consists of three hours of lectures a week, and one hour of tutorial instruction in which documents are examined, historical and historiographic issues are discussed, and advice is given on the preparation of essays. Tutorials are designed to help students sharpen their analytical skills and improve their oral expression. The preparation of essays is designed to help students define and demonstrate an understanding of important themes, to develop their research skills, and to improve their command of written English.

HIST 110.3
Landmarks of Ancient History
1/2(3L-1T)

Themes of Near Eastern history; Greek and Hellenistic experiments in politics and thought; Rome from city-state to world-state; Christianity in a pagan world.

Note: Students with credit for HIST 114 may not take this course for credit.

HIST 111.3
Landmarks of Medieval History
1/2(3L-1T)

The heirs of Rome; Charlemagne; Vikings, Magyars and the rise of feudalism; peasant life; Islam and the Crusades; the rise of France; the twelfth century renaissance; the Holy Roman Empire; the age of Pope Innocent III; medieval women; castles and cathedrals; the late middle ages.

Note: Students with credit for HIST 114 may not take this course for credit.

HIST 114.6
The Ancient and Medieval World
1&2(3L-1T)

Landmarks of Near Eastern history; Greek and Hellenistic experiments in politics, empire and thought; Rome from city-state to world state; Christianity in a pagan world; heirs of Rome; Charlemagne; Vikings, Magyars and the rise of feudalism; peasant life; Islam and the Crusades; the Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy; medieval women; chivalry, castles and cathedrals.

SENIOR LECTURE COURSES (200-LEVEL)

Lecture and lecture-tutorial courses at the 200-level are designed to provide more detailed examination of a subfield within one of the survey areas, and a more advanced and detailed discussion of conflicting interpretations and the historiographical debates on issues, themes and developments within that historical subfield.

The Department offers a judicious mix of subfields, which may be defined along national/political, chronological, or thematic lines. The subfields are fairly general, and the instruction is designed to offer greater depth of coverage and to develop a better sense of the varieties of history and of the context for the events studied than the instruction given in the first year courses.

Instruction normally consists of either three hours of lectures a week or two hours of lectures a week and one hour of tutorial instruction in which documents or assigned readings are examined, and historical and historiographical issues are discussed. The preparation of essays is an integral part of all these courses. In their essays students are expected to define and demonstrate an understanding of major historical themes, develop research skills, and improve their command of written English.

*HIST 200.6 (Formerly HIST 203)
The History of Greece
1&2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units in history at the 100-level or 6 credit units from the Department of Classics.

Minoans and Mycenaeans; the Dark Age; political and intellectual experiments of the Archaic Age; Persian Wars; the rise and fall of the Athenian empire; Athenian democracy; Greek thought, featuring historiography; the trials of city states and the rise of Macedon; Alexander and the Hellenistic world; Greece and Rome.

*Denotes courses with a terminal date of 1815 or earlier.

*HIST 201.6 (Formerly HIST 204)
History of Rome
1&2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units in history at the 100-level or 6 credit units from the Department of Classics.

Etruscan, Greek and Italian neighbours; society and politics in the Roman Republic; creation of an Italian federation and a Mediterranean empire; failure of the Republic; Augustus and the advent of monarchy; the Roman Empire, with emphasis on its constitutional, social, military and ideological fabric; paganism and Christianity; Rome's decline; historiography.

*Denotes courses with a terminal date of 1815 or earlier.

*HIST 202.3
The Formation of Europe 300-1000
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units in history at the 100-level.

A history of the West from the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the fourth century to the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire in the tenth century. Themes include: the survival of Romanitas, monasticism and the western Church, the barbarian kingdoms, the Carolingian Renaissance, and the rise of feudalism.

Note: Students with credit for HIST 212 may not take this course for credit.

*Denotes courses with a terminal date of 1815 or earlier.

*HIST 205.3
Europe and the World in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units in history at the 100-level.

Cluny and the Gregorian reform; the rise of feudal monarchy; Byzantium, Islam and the Crusades; twelfth century renaissance; universities and scholasticism; new forms of religious life; the peasantry; medieval women; the Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy; castles and cathedrals; feudal monarchies.

Note: Students with credit for HIST 212 may not take this course for credit.

*Denotes courses with a terminal date of 1815 or earlier.

*HIST 211.3
The Byzantine Empire, 330-1453
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units in history at the 100-level.

An introduction to the empire, centered on Constantinople, which dominated much of the Near East for a thousand years after Rome. Themes include religious and cultural developments; the relations between Byzantium and the Latin West; the Islamic world; the Crusades; Byzantium and the political and cultural development of eastern Europe.

*Denotes courses with a terminal date of 1815 or earlier.

*HIST 213.6 (Formerly HIST 251)
Medieval England, 1000-1460
1&2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units in history at the 100-level.

Studies elements in the political and constitutional history of medieval England and considers the relevance for the 20th century of documents such as Magna Carta, and emphasizes the cultural achievements of the period and examines the ways of life of the common people.

*Denotes courses with a terminal date of 1815 or earlier.

READING COURSES (300-LEVEL)

These are junior seminars featuring major historical and historiographical issues. They are primarily directed readings courses rather than lecture courses, though some courses combine seminar discussions with lectures. In all these courses students are required to do assigned reading and then come to class prepared to discuss critically various themes, issues, events and conflicting historical interpretations. The preparation of written work is an integral part of these courses. Permission of the department must be obtained before enrolling in these courses.

*HIST 300.3 (Formerly HIST 398)
The Roman Senate from Tiberius to Nero
1/2(3S)
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units in history or classics at the 200-level.

Ancient evidence and modern scholarship are used in a study of the Roman Senate and senatorial class from the death of Augustus to the fall of Nero (14-68).

*Denotes courses with a terminal date of 1815 or earlier.

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