HIST 7720 - Colloquium on Early Medieval Europe

The purpose of this course is to examine recent scholarship on themes which are currently central to studies in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (roughly 300-900). The class will meet every week to discuss common readings around a theme. The theme will include, but are not confined to ethnogenesis, urban studies, gender, power and violence, law, trade and economy, archaeology, eschatology and liturgy.