Timetable

Term	Week	Lectures:	Seminar Topic
Autumn Term	2	Defining the Middle Ages: An Overview	Social Norms
	3	Freedom and Unfreedom: Serfdom and Slavery	Rural Society
	4	Towns, Trade and Wealth: Debt, Credit and Profit	Urban Society
	5	Religious life and the Church	The Medieval Church
	6	Reading week
	7	Religious Norms and Heresy	Heresy
	8	The Black Death	Economy and Society after the Black Death
	9	Popular protest	Popular Protest
	10	Marriage and Family Life	The Medieval Family
Spring Term	1	Transgressing Gender Roles	Cross-dressing and Prostitution
	2	The Rise of the Universities	Learning and Society
	3	The Supernatural	Revenants, Witches and Demons
	4	Female Power and Queenship	Elite power and Queenship
	5	The Italian Renaissance	The Renaissance
		Reading week
	7	Heresy in the Later Middle Ages	Lollards and Hussites
	8	The Hundred Years War	Government and Warfare
	9	England and France in the Fifteenth Century	Late Medieval Monarchies
	10	The Crusades	European contact with others: the Crusades
Summer Term	1
	2	The Rise of the Ottomans	The Early Ottoman Empire
	3	East and West, 1200-1400 (asynchronous)	Take-home exam preparation