HIST 243 - The Early Modern Mediterranean

FC SSCI CD

4 credits
In this course, we will enter a world of pirates and princesses, of captives and crusaders by studying the Mediterranean Sea as a space of intense cultural, political, and commercial exchange between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Course materials will particularly emphasize the relationship between the various polities of Europe and the Ottoman and Moroccan empires and help students learn to problematize the broader “East/West” binary. Students will also become familiar with the many ways that Christian and Islamic cultures were shaped by the other.