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God Wills It: Crusade, Jihad, and Holy Violence in the Medieval Mediterranean
This course explores, in depth, the development, theory, and practice of crusade and jihad in the Medieval Mediterranean World (c. 1075-1225). It combines seminar-style teaching with dynamic role-playing simulations and investigates the ways in which participants in the Medieval World’s most transformative movements lived, thought, and felt about the campaigns against religious Others.
Enrollment
- Enrollment through your home campus; contact your OSLEP campus coordinator for information
- OSLEP provides all required reading materials at no additional cost-NO books to buy!
- Housing and meals provided
- In-person residential seminar
Scholar
Kyle C. Lincoln, Ph.D
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Kyle C. Lincoln is Assistant Professor of Pre-Modern European History and Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Office of Study Abroad at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. He received his PhD in Medieval History from Saint Louis University in 2016 under the direction of Damian J. Smith. His most recent book is A Constellation of Authority: Castilian Bishops and the Secular Church during the Reign of Alfonso VIII with Penn State University Press. He co-authored, with John J. Giebfried, Remaking the Medieval World: 1204, the Fourth Crusade, an award-winning textbook in the Reacting to the Past curricular movement, published by the University of North Carolina Press.
He is revising several volumes for publication, including three textbooks and completing work on a subsequent monograph on the Castilian church.
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