European History

Perhaps no other relic of the European Middle Ages captures our imagination more than illuminated medieval manuscripts, or those documents decorated with images and colored pigments. Serving as windows unto a lost world of kings, ladies, faith, war, and culture, they communicate complex visual and textual narratives of Europe’s [...]

Gain insights into the major events and people that shaped Europe’s first modern colonial empires. Learn about European empires and Europe’s history of expansion. It’s the encounters that occurred beyond European borders that shaped Europe itself.