History of the Middle-Ages
Course code
AIG6011.HT
old course code
AIG6011
Course title in Estonian
Keskaeg
Course title in English
History of the Middle-Ages
ECTS credits
4.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
Overview of the history of the Middle-Ages. Main trends in historiography. Key-problems and events.
Brief description of the course
History of Western Europe from the Roman Empire demise until the end of the 16th century. Political history. Spread of Christianity, educational development and the institution of the Catholic Church. Medieval societal structure of Germanic people. Feudal relations. Formation of centralised monarchies. European expansion (crusades and discoveries of new lands). Intellectual trends in the late Middle Ages. Reformation. Renaissance.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
The student will have the basic knowledge on the research problems, historiography and key events of the western middle-ages. Student will know the periodisation of the middle-ages and weight up the quality of argumentation from historiographic point of view. Knows the basic analytical categories. Has acquired the main features of regional differences of the medieval society and can nominate the main reasons for developmental differences. Is able to compare the ways of preception of the world of the medieval christian with that of the ancient world.
The student will have the basic knowledge on the research problems, historiography and key events of the western middle-ages. Student will know the periodisation of the middle-ages and weight up the quality of argumentation from historiographic point of view. Knows the basic analytical categories. Has acquired the main features of regional differences of the medieval society and can nominate the main reasons for developmental differences. Is able to compare the ways of preception of the world of the medieval christian with that of the ancient world.
Teacher
Priit Raudkivi, PhD
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