History 227 - COLQ:MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN HISTORY

Topics course. This course juxtaposes the medieval understanding of religious violence and war in the Western Christian and Islamic traditions with modern understandings of those same phenomena. It traces the intellectual development of these concepts during the Middle Ages, and how medieval conceptions of violence are reinterpreted and redeployed in the 19th through 21st centuries.

Topic: Crusade and Jihad: Religious Violence in the Islamo- Christian Tradition.