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  • (approximately 1600 BCE) to the Middle Ages (around 500 CE).  The reasons for this are historical.  In the early centuries CE, global climate change drove many new peoples into the Eastern and then Western Roman empires.  This influx eventually brought enough instability that the Western Empire – Europe – shattered into many small, unstable kingdoms.  They never forgot the grandeur of the Roman Empire, even as they lost the skill to build grandiose monuments, to write hair-raising literature, and to enforce

  • June 13, 2011 Student musicians wow European audiences By Steve Hansen For the past two weeks, PLU’s Choir of the West and KammerMusikere Orchestra have been touring Germany and France, with great success. The two groups – sometimes playing together, other times apart – performed numerous concerts at beautiful locations like Chartes Cathedral and Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. Choir of the West and KammerMusikere Orchestra toured France and Germany this summer. In addition, the Choir of the West

  • the worst winters in Europe. Harry’s mother, along with tens of thousands of other prisoners were forced to march for 35 miles in the snow and bitter cold, with little or no food, water, or rest. Those who could not keep up were shot. About one in four died on the way. Georgette survived. From left to right: Paul Heller, Jayme Heller, Alyson Heller, Natalie Gagnon, Julie Iacobucci and Jessica Aleman and John and Georgette Heller. Harry’s father, John, is also a story of survival.  He was only 13

  • the worst winters in Europe. Harry’s mother, along with tens of thousands of other prisoners were forced to march for 35 miles in the snow and bitter cold, with little or no food, water, or rest. Those who could not keep up were shot. About one in four died on the way. Georgette survived. From left to right: Paul Heller, Jayme Heller, Alyson Heller, Natalie Gagnon, Julie Iacobucci and Jessica Aleman and John and Georgette Heller. Harry’s father, John, is also a story of survival.  He was only 13

  • the worst winters in Europe. Harry’s mother, along with tens of thousands of other prisoners were forced to march for 35 miles in the snow and bitter cold, with little or no food, water, or rest. Those who could not keep up were shot. About one in four died on the way. Georgette survived. From left to right: Paul Heller, Jayme Heller, Alyson Heller, Natalie Gagnon, Julie Iacobucci and Jessica Aleman and John and Georgette Heller. Harry’s father, John, is also a story of survival.  He was only 13

  • the worst winters in Europe. Harry’s mother, along with tens of thousands of other prisoners were forced to march for 35 miles in the snow and bitter cold, with little or no food, water, or rest. Those who could not keep up were shot. About one in four died on the way. Georgette survived. From left to right: Paul Heller, Jayme Heller, Alyson Heller, Natalie Gagnon, Julie Iacobucci and Jessica Aleman and John and Georgette Heller. Harry’s father, John, is also a story of survival.  He was only 13

  • the worst winters in Europe. Harry’s mother, along with tens of thousands of other prisoners were forced to march for 35 miles in the snow and bitter cold, with little or no food, water, or rest. Those who could not keep up were shot. About one in four died on the way. Georgette survived. From left to right: Paul Heller, Jayme Heller, Alyson Heller, Natalie Gagnon, Julie Iacobucci and Jessica Aleman and John and Georgette Heller. Harry’s father, John, is also a story of survival.  He was only 13

  • the worst winters in Europe. Harry’s mother, along with tens of thousands of other prisoners were forced to march for 35 miles in the snow and bitter cold, with little or no food, water, or rest. Those who could not keep up were shot. About one in four died on the way. Georgette survived. From left to right: Paul Heller, Jayme Heller, Alyson Heller, Natalie Gagnon, Julie Iacobucci and Jessica Aleman and John and Georgette Heller. Harry’s father, John, is also a story of survival.  He was only 13

  • the worst winters in Europe. Harry’s mother, along with tens of thousands of other prisoners were forced to march for 35 miles in the snow and bitter cold, with little or no food, water, or rest. Those who could not keep up were shot. About one in four died on the way. Georgette survived. From left to right: Paul Heller, Jayme Heller, Alyson Heller, Natalie Gagnon, Julie Iacobucci and Jessica Aleman and John and Georgette Heller. Harry’s father, John, is also a story of survival.  He was only 13

  • -enacted the works of Europe’s first woman playwright, performed love poems of Germany’s troubadours, read the correspondence of nuns choosing to or forced to leave their convents because of the Reformation, and learned hands-on the techniques used in woodcuts and engravings by the first artists of the early modern print age. German major Alexandra Dreher articulated her appreciation for the knowledge she gained from this interdisciplinary, humanities-based approach as follows: “Learning about the