HIS 4329 Heresy, Witchcraft, and Popular Violence
This course will explain the historic role and achievements of the Byzantine world from roughly 400 through the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Along the way, we will explore the coming of Seljuk Turks, who built the first Muslim civilization in Asia Minor (former Byzantine territory) in the 11th and 12th centuries and the destructive Mongol invasions. The final part of the course will examine the rise of the Ottoman Empire as heir to Byzantium and the Abbasid caliphate by the 15th and 16th centuries.