{"id":26886,"date":"2025-05-27T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=26886"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:05:15","slug":"hist-3006-medieval-religious-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/hist-3006-medieval-religious-life\/","title":{"rendered":"HIST 3006 &#8211; Medieval Religious Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        HIST 3006 &#8211; Medieval Religious Life\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">HIST 3006A &#8211; Medieval Religious Life<br>Fall 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Instructor:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/hicham-boutaleb\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/hicham-boutaleb\/\">Hicham Boutaleb<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Course Description<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course explores religious, cultural, and intellectual life in Europe and the Mediterranean during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, emphasizing interactions among Western Christians (Franks\/ifranj), Muslims (Saracens), and Romans (called \u201cGreeks\u201d by medieval Westerners, \u201cByzantines\u201d by modern scholars). Iberia serves as a central site of cultural and intellectual exchange, demonstrating how knowledge, ideas, music, and artistic forms circulated across linguistic, religious, and geographic boundaries. Attention will be paid to ethnic-social acculturation, philosophy, and the arts as vehicles of cultural transfer\u2014including instruments such as the oud\/lute and other Mideast instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Learning Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of this course, students should be able to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Explain the broad political, religious, and social dynamics of Muslim-Christianinteraction in 11th- and 12th-century Europe and the Mediterranean. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Become familiar with the processes of cultural and intellectual exchange acrossreligious and geographic boundaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Analyze primary and secondary sources from the medieval Mediterranean,including texts, music, and visual media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Critically evaluate historiographical debates and interrogate academic, popular,and media representations of the players and periods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIST 3006A &#8211; Medieval Religious LifeFall 2025 Instructor: Hicham Boutaleb Course Description This course explores religious, cultural, and intellectual life in Europe and the Mediterranean during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, emphasizing interactions among Western Christians (Franks\/ifranj), Muslims (Saracens), and Romans (called \u201cGreeks\u201d by medieval Westerners, \u201cByzantines\u201d by modern scholars). Iberia serves as a central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[303],"class_list":["post-26886","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27492,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26886\/revisions\/27492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=26886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}