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Term
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Week |
Lectures:
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Seminar Topic |
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Block 1: Defining the Middle Ages |
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| Autumn Term |
2 |
Defining the Middle Ages: An Overview (PR) |
Defining the Middle Ages |
| 3 |
'Feudalism': Debates and Approaches (AD) |
'Feudalism' |
| 4 |
Freedom and Unfreedom: Serfdom and Slavery (AD) |
Rural Society |
| 5 |
Towns and Trade (PR) |
Urban Society |
| 6 |
Reading week |
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Block 2: Crossing Religious Boundaries |
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7 |
Religious life and the Church (AD) |
The Medieval Church
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8 |
Religious Norms and Heresy (PR) |
Cathars and the Friars |
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9 |
The Later Medieval Church and Heresy (PR) |
Avignon Papacy, Lollards and Hussites |
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10 |
The Supernatural (PR)
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Revenants, Witches and Demons |
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Winter Break |
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Block 3: Destabilising the Social Order |
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| Spring Term |
1 |
The Black Death (AD) |
Economy and Society after the Black Death |
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2 |
Popular protest (AD) |
Popular Protest
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3 |
(De)Constructing Gender roles, Marriage and the Medieval Family (AD) |
The Medieval Family |
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4 |
Transgressing Gender Roles (PR) |
Cross-dressing and Prostitution |
| 5 |
The (Religious, Social and Political) 'Other' (PR) |
The (Religious, Social and Political) 'Other' |
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6 |
Reading week |
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Block 4: Crossing Geographical, Political and Religious Borders |
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7 |
The Crusades (AD) |
European contact with others: the Crusades |
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8 |
East and West, 1200-1400 (LM) |
East and West |
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9 |
The Early Ottomans (LM) |
The Early Ottoman Empire |
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10 |
Reconquista/Convivencia Spain (AD) |
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Block 5: Boundaries of Warfare/ Boundaries of Governance |
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| Summer Term |
1 |
The Hundred Years War and European Warfare (PR) |
Government and Warfare |
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2 |
Kingship and Queenship (AD)
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Elite power and Queenship |
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