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Apr 16, 2024
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2021-2022 Hill Book (Class of 2025) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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HIS 101/134 - Money and Power in Europe, 1000-1700 (Core/First-Year Seminar)Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
Examines the role of money, trade and banking in medieval and early modern European history. Topics include the Mediterranean trading networks of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, medieval entrepreneurship, the Hanseatic League, workers’ revolts after the Black Death, dynastic politics in the Italian Renaissance, the international banking networks of the Medici and the Fuggers, mercenaries and war financing, religious and ethical debates about banking and credit, and the Dutch tulip craze of the seventeenth century.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 134 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 101, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 134, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Note: Considered a European History.
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