Department of History

HIS1020H-F Cultural Theory/Cultural History

P. RUTHERFORD

In the past two decades analyses of the practices, texts and institutions that shape everyday life have become an increasingly important dimension of historical studies. The purpose of the colloquium is to introduce graduate students to aspects of this 'new' cultural history, notably the theories of Bakhtin, Habermas, and Foucault, as these have been applied to the history of Western Europe and North America.

HIS1026H-S Modernity and Its Others: History & Postcolonial Critique

R. BIRLA

This seminar presents a postcolonial approach to the history of ideas and to the idea of history. It tracks three major themes in the history of the idea of modernity from the late 18th through the 20th centuries: political freedom, citizenship and the nation-state; capitalism and its critique; and the relationship of history, memory, and identity. The course will at once engage in close analysis of canonical primary texts on these themes and introduce students to practices of critical questioning that have emerged from postcolonial historiography. Drawing largely but not exclusively from South Asian historiography, as well as from the fields of colonial/postcolonial cultural studies, the seminar addresses influential historiographical problems, such as the question of "alternative" modernities; the question of the derivative nature of anti-colonial nationalism; and the problem of writing the history of regions which have been deemed static and without history.

HIS1101H-S Race and Gender in the Northern Colonies of North America

J. NOEL

A comparative examination of race and gender in colonial New England, New France and the British North American colonies. Initial sessions discuss theories of gender and race 1600-1850. The course proceeds to case studies of groups such as the Salem “witches.” It examines debates on women in New France and literature on masculinity in the fur trade. The course then turns to the Loyalists at the time of the American Revolution, with particular attention to Iroquois and black minorities among the exiles. Occupational groups such as midwives and seamen are analysed. The course closes with examination of two mid-nineteenth century racialized groups, the blacks of Upper Canada and the mixed-bloods of Red River.

HIS1106H-S Topics in Canadian Social History

I. RADFORTH

This course examines selected topics in Canadian social history from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century. Students will have an opportunity to study various significant topics where there is a strong secondary literature. The topics are organized chronologically, and an effort will be made to appreciate the significance of social transformations over time. We will focus on the changing approaches and methodologies of historians during the past 30 years. Ultimately, students should gain a better understanding of both Canada's social history and the writing of social history by Canadianists. Likely topics include: the rise of institutions, aboriginal peoples and acculturation in the prairie west; industrialization and the family; working-class cultures; spectacles and the new cultural history; gender and the reform movements; the rise of the welfare state; immigration; consumerism.

HIS1109H-F Readings in Canadian History

S. PENFOLD

This seminar will introduce some of the key topics and classic readings in Canadian history. It is mainly intended to allow PhD students to begin preparation for the Canadian field exam, but it will also provide a general view of work in Canadian history for graduate students. A key aim of the course is to draw students out of their area of thematic or temporal specialization within Canadian history.

Readings for the seminar lean heavily on books that often appear on comprehensive reading lists in Canadian history.

HIS1114H-F Indigenous Histories in North America

H. BOHAKER

This seminar provides a broad regional survey of seminal readings in North American Indigenous histories. It has been designed to support students who plan on preparing for a minor comprehensive exam in this field. Readings for the seminar will feature histories written by or in collaboration with Indigenous scholars and Indigenous communities, with the aim of drawing students into discussion of comparative historiographies and the role of worldview in historical writing. Topics will also include theoretical and methodological approaches to the field. Students will be asked to think critically about “contact” as a historiographic divide between the disciplines of history and archaeology, as well as other issues related to chronology and periodization.

HIS1142Y(J) Canadian Foreign Relations, 1940-2006
(Joint undergraduate/graduate course - HIS 405Y/1142Y)

R. BOTHWELL

In the first term the course takes an in-depth look at topics in Canadian foreign policy, after 1945, including the Korean War, the Suez Crisis, Vietnam, Afghanistan and the Iraq War. In the second term the examination of Canadian foreign policy will continue, but the topics will depend on the subjects students choose to write about for their major research essays.

HIS1201H-F The Materials of Medieval History

J. GOERING

Required course for MA students of the medieval area in the Department of History but open to others. The course is concerned with the discovery and critical use of the materials of medieval history. It includes exercises in the use of published source collections and bibliographical aids.

Exclusion: HIS1997H

HIS1214H-F The Merovingians

A. MURRAY

Narrative and institutional history of Gaul in late antiquity and the early middle ages, culminating in the Frankish kingdom of the Merovingians.

HIS1221H-F Early Modern Europe: Topics in Social History

N. TERPSTRA

In this semester we will examine issues related to how Europeans built, protected, and idealized community through the late fifteenth and into the seventeenth century. Their pursuit of ‘pure communities’ shaped their efforts to reform, expand, and discipline charity. It also shaped their views of and relations to others through the religious upheavals of the Reformation, leading to unprecedented expulsions and to the phenomenon of the religious refugee appearing across different religious communities. Some of those who were religiously different were sent into exile while others left their homes voluntarily, creating new networks of diasporic communities on Europe’s margins. The conjunction of purity and religious migration also profoundly coloured Europe’s encounters with and reactions to Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

HIS1231H-F Topics in French History: France and the Sea

S. MARZAGALLI

Whereas early modern France is generally considered as a major continental power, this course explores the various dimensions of its maritime history and tries to asses the importance of the sea both for the French State and for Frenchmen. Fisheries and maritime trade marked the life of French coastal cities and villages. By the 18th century, the riches from the Atlantic trade introduced a consistent difference between coastal areas and the interior parts of France. French colonial policy and maritime rivalry shaped the French State, and initiated economic and social dynamics which considerably marked 18th century life in the French-speaking world. French maritime history, and the history of the French Atlantic, has been the object of intense recent historiographical interest from a variety of perspectives – political, social, economic and cultural. This course will examine the principle themes, problems and scholarship on French maritime history.

This is a 4-week course from October to November, 2009

HIS1237H-F France: 1870-1968

E. JENNINGS

This graduate course explores themes and episodes in French history since the Paris Commune. Students will be introduced to the historiography of the Commune, the Dreyfus Affair, French colonialism, immigration, the two world wars, the Vichy regime, decolonization, and May 1968. Memory, identity, immigration and empire are some of the recurring themes in this seminar. Readings will include a range of cultural, political, gender, and social approaches. In some cases we will read classics (like Marx on the Commune), and in others we will consider very recent studies (Kristin Ross on May 1968, for example). In several sessions, we will confront “classics” and recent interpretations.

HIS1269H-F(J) The Social History of Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries
(Joint undergraduate/graduate course – HIS 423H/1269H)

E. SHORTER

The seminar, designed to inform students about developments in this new scholarly field, will include topics such as the evolution of the doctor-patient relationship, the impact of medical care upon health, the evolution of such medical specialties as internal medicine, neurology and psychiatry, the relationship between culture and the presentation of illness, and the history of medical therapeutics.

HIS1270H-F(J) History of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Illness
(Joint undergraduate/graduate course HIS 489H/1270H)

E. SHORTER

This course introduces students to some of the main issues in the history of psychiatry. Classroom discussion will cover such topics as changes in the nature of psychotic illness, the psychoneuroses, disorders of the mind/body relationship, psychiatric diagnosis and the "presentation" of illness.

HIS1271H-S MODERN POLITICAL TRIALS

M. MARRUS

What are political trials? According to one recent definition, these are trials in which the outcome "depends on an evaluation of the defendant's political attitudes and activities." Among other things, this seminar course will test that definition, and begins with the hypothesis that there can be other sorts of political trials, in which courtroom arguments speak to issues of political importance in different societies. Many different circumstances, it should become clear, contribute to making trials political. To examine these propositions, we will look at European and North American trials in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The approach will be interdisciplinary, and will draw upon legal, political, cultural, historical and social analyses of the various trials selected for the course. Note that this seminar is delivered in conjunction with the Faculty of Law, from which half of the students in the course will come.

HIS1278H-F Topics in Twentieth-Century German History

D. BERGEN

This course is designed to prepare students for examination fields in twentieth-century German history. It will introduce students to the significant texts and questions in the field as well as investigating the field's central problematic: the question of Germany’s twentieth-century modernity. The country's "special path" to modernity (Sonderweg) has been seen as a determining factor in the rise of National Socialism. This master narrative of German exceptionalism, which has provided a template for understanding the course of German history, has been subjected to extensive criticism. Yet, what characterized modern society in Germany, and the political consequences of this modernity, continues to provide one of the central questions in the field. The course will explore the histories of modernity, society and political culture in Germany in the twentieth century from the Wilhelmine Empire through to the Berlin Republic through reading and discussing classic older works, recent monographs and interdisciplinary article literature. Particular attention will be paid to recent scholarship on culture, gender and the histories of everyday life.

HIS1279H-F(J) World War II in East Central Europe
(Joint undergraduate/graduate course HIS 451H1/HIS 1297)

P. WRÓBEL

World War II was much more destructive in East Central Europe than in Western Europe. The difference was caused by many reasons, among which the Nazi and Soviet plans and policies were the most important. Yet, there were also numerous East Central European phenomena that contributed to the cruelty of World War II in the East. This seminar will explore the external and internal factors that defined the war in this region. Students will analyze the military, political, economic, and cultural activities of Germany, the Soviet Union, and their allies and enemies. Following sessions will concentrate on the fall of the Versailles system, diplomatic and military activities throughout the war, on occupational policies of the invaders, economic exploitation of the invaded, on collaboration, accommodation, resistance, genocide, the "liberation" and sovietization of East Central Europe after 1944. All the secondary and primary sources used in class are in English.

HIS1282H-F Comparative Totalitarian Culture

T. LAHUSEN

The purpose of the course is to historicize the concept of totalitarian culture by examining the relation between propaganda, entertainment, and mass culture, in the context of how both Germany and Soviet Russia related to Hollywood. Primary materials to be considered are German and Soviet films of the1930s and 1940s.

HIS1283H-F(J) Crusades, Conversion and Colonialization in the Medieval Baltic
(Joint undergraduate/graduate course – HIS 412Y/1283H)

J. KIVIMÄE

This seminar is concentrated on reading Balthasar Russow’s “Chronicle of the Province of Livonia” (1584), using it as a gateway to the explanation of Danish, Swedish, German, Polish and Russian aspirations for hegemony in the Baltic Sea region. Beginning with the frames of political and military history of the Livonian Wars (1558-1583), it goes on to examine the everyday life history of the Baltic people in a multicultural and multinational context of Early Modern Eastern and Northern Europe.

Recommended Preparation: one course in Early Modern European History and one course in Russian History.

HIS1287H-S(J) Polish Jews Since the Partition of Poland
(Joint undergraduate/graduate course HIS 433H/1287H)

P. WRÓBEL

The history of the Polish Jews and of Polish-Jewish relations are among the most interesting and controversial subjects in the history of Poland. The Jewish experience in Poland can contribute to an understanding of the Holocaust and of the non-Jewish minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. The course will explore the history of Polish Jews from the Partitions of Poland to the present time, concentrating on the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries: the situation of Polish Jews in Galicia, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, and Prussian-occupied Poland before 1914; during World War I; in the first years of reborn Poland; in the 1930s; during WW II; and in post-war Poland. The course will examine the state policies of Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Poland towards Jews; the rise of Jewish political movements; the life of Jewish shtetls in Christian neighbourhoods; changes in the economic position and cultural development of Jewish communities in Poland, and the impact of communism on Jewish life. Materials for the course are in English. Sessions will focus on an analysis of primary sources, translated from Polish, German, Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew, as well as on secondary sources, representing diverse interpretations and points of views.

HIS1289H-F The Cold War Through its Archives

R. JOHNSON

Reviews the history of the Cold War in light of formerly-secret archival documents. Examples include the US White House Tapes and Venona decrypts; massive declassification of records in the ex-Soviet bloc; and parallel developments in China, Cuba, and other Communist states. Archival discoveries have cast new light, not just on individual episodes (e.g., Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979) but on the origins, strategies, and driving forces of this 45-year conflict. The focus will be mainly on the superpowers and their alliance systems.

HIS1295H-F Seminar in Soviet History

L. VIOLA

This course is a seminar on the history of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1953. The course offers an overview of the western historiography and a sampling of some of the newer postsoviet Russian historical literature. Graduate student assignments include 2-3 short book reviews and a historiographical essay. Russian is not required. This course is adequate preparation for a minor field in 20th Century Russian history.

HIS1425H-F British Cinema and Social Realism

R. KING

How and why have debates about social realism contributed to the distinctiveness of British filmmaking as a national cinema? What are the changing forms of British cinema’s relation to realism, and how do those changes relate to broader social and political contexts? This course examines the various permutations of the British realist tradition from the 1930s to the present – from John Grierson to Ken Loach, from the “kitchen sink” cycle of the early 1960s to the 1990s gangster film - tracing the different ways in which realism has been mobilized to construct a supposedly “authentic” British culture. It also considers how this notion of “authenticity” has been problematized by the displacing of class politics in the post-Thatcher era, and it investigates these shifts in terms of recent, postmodern appropriations of social realism as pastiche (as in, e.g., the cycle of Guy Ritchie-inspired films, the music of the Arctic Monkeys, etc.).

HIS1440H-F(J) Irish Nationalism in Canada and the United States
(Joint with SMC416H)

D.A. WILSON

A transnational and crossnational analysis of Irish nationalism in the Atlantic World from the 1790s to the 1860s. Special attention is paid to the United Irishmen in the United States, the Young Ireland exiles of 1848, and the Fenian movement in Canada and the United States.

HIS1519H-F Thinking of Diversity: Historical Perspectives on American and Canadian Pluralisms

R. KAZAL

This one-semester seminar explores the historical evolution of American and Canadian thinking about diversity -- ethnic, religious, and regional -- from early modern defenses of religious toleration and the “two nations” concept to early twentieth-century “cultural pluralism” and today’s multiculturalism. Participants will consider the development of pluralist ideologies as articulated by intellectuals and in more everyday, vernacular forms, such as political campaigns, historical commemorations, and other cultural productions. They will examine pluralist thought in the context of competing ideologies, such as nativism. And they will explore the problems and promise of comparing pluralist ideologies and other responses to diversity in Canada and the United States. The seminar combines intensive reading in primary and secondary sources -- including an emerging literature by Americanists and Canadianists on the early roots of multiculturalism -- with discussion, in-class presentations, three short response papers, and the preparation of a detailed prospectus (25 pages) for a research project in this developing field.

HIS1538H-S Readings in U.S. History

E. BROWN

This seminar will survey some of the important topics and readings in U.S. history after 1877. Given the extensive scope of the historiography in the U.S. field, this particular section of HIS1538H will focus on the post-1945 period. The goals of the course are to map current debates about the period under question, and to provide snapshots of the historiography for each subfield. Topics include: the Cold War; social movement history in a global frame (including civil rights, black power, women?s movement, gay liberation, student and anti-war protest); liberalism and neoliberalism; immigration; urbanization and suburbanization, especially in the sunbelt; the rise of modern conservativism; immigration; mass and consumer culture; U.S. empire and colonialism, post-45. We will cover a range of methodological approaches and subfields, including gender history, political history, cultural history, labour history, foreign relations history, etc. The course is designed for students preparing for comprehensive fields or others seeking a basic background in 20th century US history. Course work will include book reviews; class presentation; historiographic essays. Students wishing to see a list of books/ draft syllabus are encouraged to email the instructor no earlier than August 1, 2009 at Elspeth.brown@utoronto.ca.

HIS1543H-F Topics in Material Culture

A. HOOD

Material evidence such as clothing, consumer and household goods, art, built form, and landscape can provide unique and exciting insights into past and present culture(s) unavailable through textual sources alone. Because of historians’ reliance on documents, we have overlooked material sources, in the process failing to develop a methodological framework for their study found in such object-centered disciplines as archaeology, anthropology, art history, and folklore. This is a historical methods/theory course where students produce a research proposal on a topic of their choice that centers on material culture. The goal is to demonstrate the importance of objects for understanding the past by exploring current interdisciplinary trends in theory and methodology. We examine how artifacts can inform historical inquiry and conversely how historical research can shape what we know about the material worlds of the past. Although much of the theoretical and applied writing in material culture is North American, we will also look at the somewhat different approaches to the subject developed in Canada and Europe. The course will give participants a better understanding of the practice of history in general and innovative ways to approach it.

HIS1664H-S Relgion and Society in Southeast Asia

N. TRAN

This course introduces students to the historical debates on religion and society in the eleven states that now constitute “Southeast Asia.” Readings will address how religious practices in the region—animism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism and Christianity—have served as forces for social and political change in the modern period. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role of “religion” in the region’s political transitions in the twentieth century, including the ways in which Southeast Asia’s approach toward “modernity” directly relies upon religious authority.

HIS1668H-F Topics in Early Modern Asian Hisotry

H. KWEE

This course examines the historiography of the Asian region from c. 1500-1800 A.D. It focuses on the works emerging in the recent two decades, particularly those that seek to move beyond political-economic concerns, European-Asian dichotomization, the confines of area studies like “East Asia”, “Southeast Asia” and “South Asia”; as well as the dissection of historical periods into “medieval”, “early modern” and “modern” eras. The topics and approaches include the exploration of “parallel histories” and “connected histories” across Asian regions and around the world, the use of historical anthropological methods in the studies of Asian localities, and the study of units of analysis of border-crossing potential such as those following the movements of commodities, people and networks.

HIS1673H-F Critical Historiography of Late Imperial and Modern China

L. CHEN

This course introduces students to a host of important topics concerning late imperial and modern Chinese history. It will cover issues including state-society relationship, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, print culture, foreign relations, translingual politics and empire, modernity, nationalism, and revolutionary ideology. Mindful of the traditional approaches, these topics will be discussed through comparative and global perspectives and through the lens of more recent historiographic theories. All the readings are carefully chosen to reflect both the cutting-edge scholarship on the topics and the important methodological questions at issue. Students will be asked to write reaction papers (3-4 pages long) every week (for eight out of twelve weeks). Alternatively, students can opt to write and present a substantive research paper (at least 25 pages) on a topic of Chinese history with instructor’s approval.

HIS1675H-F Imperial Circulation, Diasporic Flows

J. SHARMA

Over the last few years, the task of rethinking the British Empire has involved reconnecting issues of race, class, gender, national, and empire. This new imperial history is greatly strengthened by recent historical works which explore a range of issues including mixed-race liaisons, Asian lascar seamen, the English language, Christian conversions, family and chain migration. This history connects the local and the global. This course offers a thematic approach focused on modern South Asia and the British Empire. Through exemplary studies, it challenges conventional, uni-directional dichotomies of empire-periphery & homeland-diaspora. It discusses how multi-directional modes of imperial circulation and diasporic flows transform both our understanding of the British Empire, and of imperial and trans-national history writing.

HIS1677H-S Empire and Nation in Modern East Asia

T. LAM

This course studies the transition from empire to nation in East Asia from the 19th to the 20th centuries in the greater global context. In addition to examining the historiography associated with this transition, which include the collapse of the Chinese Qing empire, the arrival of Western imperial powers, the rise of the Japanese empire, the emergence of nationalisms in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, this reading seminar also draws on a broad range of theoretical literature associated with the questions of culture and civilization, historical narrative, sovereignty, governmentality, capitalist modernity, and globalization to analyze the ideologies and practices of empire and nation. As such, it seeks to use East Asian history as a case study to re-examine the complicated theoretical terrains of empire and nation.

HIS1707H-F Topics in African History

S. ROCKEL

An investigation of selected topics in social, economic and political history from the earliest times to the present. The emphasis will be on Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular attention to East, Central and Southern Africa. In any one year topics chosen will include some of the following: iron age cultures; precolonial states and economies; slavery and the slave trade; religious innovations; colonial conquest and resistance; migrant labour; changing identities; segregation and apartheid; nationalism and decolonization; armed struggle and civil wars; demography, health and environmental management. Students are welcome to suggest areas of personal interest. Course work includes a research or historiographical paper and class presentations.

HIS1709H-F(J) Conversion & Christianities in the Early Modern Spanish World
(Joint undergraduate/graduate course HIS 441H/1709H)

K. MILLS

The seminar investigates religious conversion and the ways in which human allegiances and identities emerge and change in colonial settings. Our readings and discussions will concentrate on the Spanish world between about the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Principal settings will include the late medieval Spanish kingdoms, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, and the Philippines archipelago. A few of our meetings will range even more broadly in he hope of awakening the student to the wider historical frames in which our theme and period rest, and in search of interdisciplinary thinking tools for students of religious and cultural change. Primary sources translated into English will inform discussions and secondary readings whenever possible, and visual images will also be considered.

HIS 1711H-F; Animal and Human Rights in the Anglo-Atlantic World; Prof.

S. HAWKINS

The question of the animal was at the heart of Anglo-American justifications of slavery. At the same time, many abolitionists were also proponents of animal rights. From Thomas Tryon’s Friendly Advice to the Gentlemen-Planters of the East and West Indies (1684) to Thomas Taylor’s A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes (1792), animal and human rights were closely intertwined in British rights discourse. This seminar uses these and other primary texts to examine why this was so and to explore what implications these interconnections have for the meaning of the movement for the abolition of slavery, which is often seen as the most important realization of rights in the Anglo-Atlantic world. The seminar falls within multiple fields: Atlantic, British, and intellectual history; history of ethics; and postcolonial studies.

HIS1997H-F The Practice of History

L. LOEB

HIS1997H is the common exper ience of all History MA students. It provides the occasion for you to reflect on the discipline through an examination of theoretical and methodological writing, as well as some historical works exemplifying important currents of historiography. Emphasis in the course is on reading and discussion.

Exclusion: HIS1201H-F

COL5027H-S Memory, Trauma and History

T. LAHUSEN

This research seminar will explore methods of analyzing narratives of survival which emerged out of experiences of repression in different historical contexts such as the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, the Chinese system of "reeducation through labor" (laogai) and “thought reform” (sixiang gaizao), as well as slavery, the experience of the Indigenous People of the Americas, and domestic violence. Various theoretical and methodological approaches will be engaged to examine how personal and institutional responses to trauma (diaries, memoirs, literary works, etc.) confront past and present. Readings include Jacques Le Goff, History and Memory (1992), Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History (1992), Dominick LaCapra, Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma (1996), Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987), Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir (1970), Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (1995), Zhang Xianliang, Grass Soup (1995), Sidney Rittenberg and Amanda Bennet, The Man Who Stayed Behind (1993). During the seminar, students will also prepare and discuss their own topic of research, leading toward a final paper.

JHP1631H–S Intelligence and International Relations

W. WARK

This course seeks to expose students to the literature on the development of modern intelligence services and their impact on the conduct of international relations since the outbreak of World War II. The history of intelligence power in the period from 1939 to the present will be explored through a series of case studies, many involving the use of selected primary sources. The objective of the course is to further an understanding of the informational base on which decision-making in war and peace is conducted.

JHP223H-F/S The History and Philosophy of I.R. Thought

FALK/CHENNOUFI

The course is focused on the historical and philosophical evolution of international relations theory. The main objective is to engage students in the exegetical and critical examination of selected core texts. Readings will be drawn from the works of classical thinkers that have most influenced international relations theory and practice: Thucydides, Augustine, Aquinas, Bodin, Machiavelli, Grotius, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Clausewitz. Students will also be given secondary readings that relate to these texts. From these materials will emerge the concepts, assumptions, issues, and main lines of debate that continue to dominate thinking about global politics today.

Texts: The majority of the class readings will be on reserve in the Graham Library in the Munk Centre for International Studies. All materials are available through the U of T catalogue. It is recommended that students purchase a theoretical overview, either Political Theories of International Relations, by David Boucher or A History of international Relations Theory: An Introduction, by Torbjørn L. Knutsen. Requirements: One short paper (5-7 pages) due part way through the semester; one longer paper (12-15 pages) due the last day of class; seminar leadership; class participation.

(Preference given to MAIR collaborative program students, all others must ballot through the MAIR office)

MST3201H-S Medieval Social History

I. COCHELIN

This course is a survey of the historiography on medieval European society, covering some of the principal debates in Medieval History today. Among some of the topics treated are ethnicity, the Carolingian Renaissance, medieval spirituality, gender, the medieval family, medieval Christians and “others”, lordship and peasantry, marginal groups, and criminality.

MST3210H-F Medieval Spain

M. MEYERSON

This course will explore primarily the social history of Castile and Aragon-Catalonia in an era of conquest, settlement, and social and institutional formation. Among the topics to be treated are frontier society, the colonization process, the emergence and solidification of social groups in urban and rural areas, and Christian relations with Muslims and Jews. Students will read secondary and primary texts.

MST3223H-S Medieval and Early Modern Inquisitions