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| Unit name |
The Early Reformation (Level I Lecture Response) |
| Unit code |
HIST25009 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
I/5
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
|
| Unit director |
Dr. Austin |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None
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| School/department |
Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
This Lecture Response Unit will look at the Reformation in Europe between 1517 and c.1555. The Reformation was an event of seismic importance: its impact resounded across Europe and it resulted in the unity of the Roman Catholic Church, which had existed for more than a thousand years, being shattered. The consequences of this schism are still apparent today. The unit will use a number of different approaches, sometimes seeking to draw out broad themes, and at other times focusing on the experiences of individual countries. In particular, the lectures will seek to emphasise the diversity of the Reformation in Europe. While due consideration will be paid to the theological ideas that underpinned the Reformation, greater attention will be given to the transmission and reception of these ideas, and how they related to the political, social, economic and cultural environments in which they were accepted, modified or rejected.
Aims:
- To provide a broad grounding in the history of the Reformation in Europe between 1517 and c.1555.
- To provide particular perspectives on that history to which students can react critically and build their own individual views and interpretations.
Intended Learning Outcomes
- wider historical knowledge of the history of the Reformation in Europe between 1517 and c.1555
- deeper awareness of how to approach a long term historical analysis
- ability to set individual issues within their longer term historical context
- the ability to analyse and generalise about issues of continuity and change
- ability to select pertinent evidence/data in order to illustrate/demonstrate more general historical points
- ability to derive benefit from and contribute effectively to large group discussion
- ability to identify a particular academic interpretation, evaluate it critically and form an individual viewpoint
Teaching Information
- Weekly 2-hour interactive lectures
- Tutorial feedback on essay
- Access to tutorial consultation with unit tutor in office hours
Assessment Information
1 x 3000 word essay (50%) and 1 x 2 hour exam (50%)
Reading and References
- Patrick Collinson, The Reformation (2005)
- R. Po-Chia Hsia (Ed.), A Companion to the Reformation World (2004)
- Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation. Europes House Divided, 1490-1700 (2003)
- Andrew Pettegree (Ed.), The Early Reformation in Europe (1992)
- Andrew Pettegree (Ed.), The Reformation World (2000)
- James D. Tracy, Europes Reformations 1450-1650 (2000)
