Timetable
The seminar groups will meet at the following times and places:
Seminar Group #1: Fri 12-1 H3.47 (JC)
Seminar Group #2: Fri 3-4 H3.47 (DG)
Seminar Group #3: Tue 1-2pm H1.04 (AD)
Seminar Group #4: Tue 2-3pm H3.58 (AD)
Seminar Group #5: Thu 11-12pm H3.55 (AD)
Seminar Group #6: Th 12-1pm H3.45 (AD)
Lectures: Thursday 15.00 -16.00 L5 (First Term) H0.52 (Second Term)
Module Convenor: Dr Aysu Dincer (AD) Office Hours: Tuesday 3.30-4.30pm; Thursday 1.30-2.30pm (H0.09)
Seminar tutors: Dr Aysu Dincer (AD) Dr Daniel Gerrard (DG) and Mr Joe Chick (JC)
Term | Week | Lectures: |
Seminar Topic |
Autumn Term | 1 | No lecture | No seminar |
2 | The Middle Ages: an overview | Latin Christendom and its neighbours | |
3 | Medieval government and the concept of 'feudalism' | Government and communities | |
4 | The countryside | ||
5 | Medieval towns and trade | Urban society |
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6 | ~ Reading Week ~ | ||
7 | Religious life and the Church | The Medieval Church | |
8 | The Black Death | Economy and Society after the Black Death | |
9 | Popular protest | Popular protest | |
10 | Heretics and Saints | Heresy: threat or fiction? | |
Spring Term |
1 |
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance |
Intellectual and cultural life |
2 | The Rise of the Universities | Learning and Society | |
3 | Gender, Marriage and Family Life | The medieval family | |
4 | The Crusades | European contact with others: the Crusades | |
5 |
The Avignon Papacy, Great Schism and Councils |
The Schism | |
6 | ~ Reading Week ~ | ||
7 | The Hundred Years War | Government and Warfare | |
8 | England and France in the Fifteenth Century | Late Medieval Monarchies | |
9 |
Lollards and Hussites |
Heresy in the Later Middle Ages | |
10 |
The Italian Renaissance |
The Renaissance | |
Summer Term | 1 | The Rise of the Ottomans | The Rise of the Ottomans |
2 | Latin Christendom and Asia 1200 - 1400 | Latin Christendom's contact with Asia | |
3 | The Age of Discoveries | Expansion and Exploration |