Catalogue · Faculty of History
HIST 210
The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000
Paul Freedman traces the transformation of the Roman world into medieval Europe — the empire’s crisis, the rise of Christianity and Islam, and the Carolingian experiment — across twenty-two Yale lectures. The centuries everything else in the European story quietly assumes.
Syllabus
- the fall of Rome
- the rise of Christianity and Islam
- the Carolingians
- the making of medieval Europe
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