In this course we will strive to inculcate Unity, Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Our study of the medieval world will especially manifest the depths of culture and community under the direction of the Gospel. We will see how the Church “took gold from Egypt,” absorbing and Christianizing truth and goodness from Roman, Greek, and Germanic traditions. It advanced the cause of human dignity, curbed warfare, elevated women, protected the weak, and abolished slavery for the first time in human history. Students will develop in themselves something of this great “medieval synthesis” as well as something of the patience of the Church that knows that lasting and meaningful change is only achieved slowly.