HIST 304 - The Dark Ages, Summer 2008, UMass Boston OpenCourseWare

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University of Massachusetts,
Boston, MA 02125,

Course Description,
Beginning with the decline of the Roman Empire, this course discusses German, Muslim, Viking and Magyar invasions, the development of Catholicism in Western Europe and of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Byzantine Empire, the Arabic contribution to mathematics, science, and philosophy and the institutions of feudalism and manorialism. The course concludes with the economic, demographic and urban revival which began around 1000 AD.