This course provides an introduction to the built environment of the Middle Ages from the fall of Rome to the Protestant Reformation. Students will integrate the study of architecture with the study of medieval culture, exploring for example the impact of the cult of saints, princely courts and civil authority, religious reform and radicalism and rising urbanism.

Estimated cost of materials: $0-50.

HISTART concentration distributions: 1. Ancient, 2. Medieval, D. Europe and the US

Course books:
Roger Stalley, Early Medieval Architecture. Oxford History of Art (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999)
Christopher Wilson, The Gothic Cathedral: The Architecture of the Great Church, 1130-1530 (London, Thames & Hudson, 1990)