HIS 295-03 - Special Topic: Sex, Gender, and Family in Europe 1300-1700

4 credits (Spring)

What did it mean to be a child, woman, or man in medieval and early modern Europe? This course explores the experiences and perspectives of conventional, exemplary, and deviant sorts including nuns, soldiers, courtesans, convicted sodomites, runaways, peasants, witches, slaves, and conquistadors. It uses gender, social, cultural, and micro-history to examine the construction and of identity and sexual and familial relationships in a period of dramatic economic, political, and religious change and increasing entanglement with non-Christian cultures.

Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Pollnitz