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Birth of Europe

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The Institute will present a thirty-week course, "The Birth of Europe," taught by William H. Fredlund, Ph.D. on Monday nights. The Birth of Europe studies the period from the Fall of Rome around 500 AD to the Renaissance, which begins to develop in the late 1300s; from Justinian (c. 500) to Chaucer (1400). We see the first new kingdoms appear in Northern Europe, the great new libraries, the monasteries, the cathedrals. And in the 1300s new international connections appear: the Silk Road, Marco Polo, and travelers all over Europe as recorded in the great Canterbury Tales.

All classes begin at 7:00 PM

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