3.00 Credits
Description: This seminar examines life in the medieval city as it has been documented, studied, and imagined over time. Streets, daily life, guilds, governance, trade fairs, Gothic cathedrals, sculpture, painting, processions, hospitals, plagues, cemeteries, and revolts will be among the topics surveyed. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the impact that historical, social, political, and economic processes and events had on shaping the fabric of medieval cities and the experience of the urban environment. Prerequisite: ARTH 175 or ARTH 342 or MDST 300 or permission of instructor. Notes: Offered periodically.