Unit name | Conflict and Community |
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Unit code | HIST20118 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Smith |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will explore different types of community in the medieval world. It will consider how collective identities were created and sustained, and how individuals saw themselves, especially when they were members of more than one group. Particular attention will be paid to the processes by which communities came into being, to changing patterns of conflict and cooperation, and to the conceptual frameworks within which medieval people understood communal identities. The terms and models used by historians to understand communities and identities will also be assessed. Specific topics are likely to include: gendered identities; kingdoms and nations; frontier communities; aristocratic identities; urban communities; religious identities; monastic orders; rural communities; transnational networks; intellectuals.
Successful students will be able to:
Weekly:
1 x two-hour lecture
1 x one-hour seminar
1 x 10-minute presentation (25%) [ILOs 1, 6]
1 x 2-hour exam (75%) [ILOs 1-5]
Nancy Caciola, Discerning Spirits: Divine 'and' Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages (Ithaca, N.Y. 2003)
Barbara Harvey, Living 'and' 'Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience (Oxford, 1993)
Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson, eds., Languages of Love 'and' 'Hate: Conflict, Communication and' Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012)
David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 1996)
Susan Reynolds, Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300 (Oxford, second edition, 1997)
Phillipp R. Schofield, Peasant 'and' Community in Medieval England 1200-1500 (Basingstoke, 2003)