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070308 VO History of the Middle Ages (2024S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Moodle

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Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 05.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 19.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 09.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 16.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 23.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 30.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 07.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 14.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 21.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 28.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 04.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 11.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8
  • Tuesday 18.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This lecture provides a basic overview of the Middle Ages (ca. 400 to ca. 1500). The focus is on Europe, but we will also discuss developments in the Islamic and Byzantine Mediterranean and the wider global Middle Ages. The lectures will introduce you to key political, economic, social, and cultural developments of the period.
Medieval kings and queens, clerics and knights, merchants and peasants, monks and nuns, cathedrals and universities live on in modern memory, for better and worse. Europe was for centuries Rome’s poorest heir, less economically complex, less connected to the wider world, and demographically thinner than its sibling cultures of Byzantium and Islam. But after 1000, things began to change. Europe’s populations expanded, its economy grew and specialized, and its inhabitants pressed aggressively into the lands of their neighbors. After a series of crises in the fourteenth century — climate change, war, plague — came a period of global expansion and cultural confidence. By the 1500s, as Europeans experimented with new ways of organizing religion, knowledge, politics, economics, and family life, they began spread across the wider world.
By the end of the course, you will possess a solid grasp of important events, developments, and individuals in this period of European history. You will be in a position to contextualize literature, art, music, material culture, and architecture from this setting, and you will be better situation to expand your knowledge about it.

Assessment and permitted materials

Examination at the end of semester

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination material is derived from the content of the lectures (PPT and spoken presentations).
Grading rubric:
1 (very good) = 100-90 Punkte
2 (good) = 89-81 Punkte
3 (satisfactory) = 80-71 Punkte
4 (sufficient) = 70-60 Punkte
5 (fail) = 59-0 Punkte

Examination topics

Examination material is derived from the content of lectures (PPT slides will be uploaded to the Moodle). Keywords (from which exam questions are likely to be derived) will be highlighted in lectures and on the Moodle. In addition, readings will be posted on the Moodle.

Reading list

All readings will be made available on the Moodle.

Association in the course directory

BA Geschichte (V2019): PM3 Epochen; VO Geschichte des MIttelalters (5 ECTS) / ZWM Weitere EAR 1 oder 2 (5 ECTS)
BEd UF Geschichte: VO Geschichte des Mittelalters (5 ECTS)
EC Geschichte (V2021) - M1a - VO Geschichte des Mittelalters (5 ECTS)

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