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George Bent, the Sidney Gause Childress Professor of the Arts, delivers the opening presentation of the 2025 Alumni College program, "Discover the Middle Ages: A Week of Exploration, Connection, and Insight."
Step into a world of political intrigue, cultural transformation, and intellectual innovation in our immersive program on the Middle Ages. From ca. 500 CE to the dawn of the early modern world a thousand years later, this period was one of profound change that reshaped the global landscape. Across Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, empires rose and fell, religious movements emerged, collided, and coexisted, and a network of trade routes connected distant regions in ways that would forever alter history.
George Bent, the Sidney Gause Childress Professor of the Arts, delivers the opening presentation of the 2025 Alumni College program, "Discover the Middle Ages: A Week of Exploration, Connection, and Insight."
Step into a world of political intrigue, cultural transformation, and intellectual innovation in our immersive program on the Middle Ages. From ca. 500 CE to the dawn of the early modern world a thousand years later, this period was one of profound change that reshaped the global landscape. Across Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, empires rose and fell, religious movements emerged, collided, and coexisted, and a network of trade routes connected distant regions in ways that would forever alter history.
