HIST 410 Seminar: Persecution and Tolerance in the Medieval Mediterranean
Were the Christian and Muslim societies of the medieval world tolerant or intolerant of religious minorities? This course tackles this difficult question to introduce history majors to the craft of writing history, or explaining and interpreting the past. Throughout the semester, we both study how established historians have understood our central question, and join that scholarly conversation ourselves by writing a deeply researched, original paper on the subject. This course is open to junior and second-semester sophomore history majors. Other students require departmental approval.