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The course provides a broad overview of changes which the Renaissance and Reformations introduced to European culture, politics, religion, society and people’s understanding of their role in the world. It traces these developments in a comparative way, from Europe’s Atlantic coast to East Central Europe and Russia. These changes include: a changing image of the world and its relationship to the spiritual during the Renaissance; a time of unrest triggered by European Reformations; European expansion; and the growth of monarchies and republics.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 1 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The course provides a broad overview of the changes which the Renaissance and Reformations introduced to European culture, politics, religion, society and people’s understanding of their role in the world. It traces these developments in a comparative way, from Europe’s Atlantic coast to East Central Europe and Russia, throughout a changing image of the world and its relationship to the spiritual, brought on by Renaissance, a time of unrest triggered by the European Reformations, the radical and the magisterial reformations, European expansion, the growth of monarchies and republics, and the wars of religion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It concludes with the onset of the early Enlightenment and an analysis of absolutist court culture. A chronological approach is combined with a thematic survey of major historical movements, concepts, ideas and developments, such as monarchy, nobility, secularisation, serfdom and feudalism, urbanisation, sexuality and everyday life, witchcraft and popular belief, court culture, mercantilism, and warfare.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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One-to-one essay return as soon as possible, with plenty of comments, advice in improvement and, if necessary, information about learning support courses at the university; office hours, class meetings, mixed tutor- and peer assessment by students and discussion thereof. |
Word Count | 2000 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 60 | |
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Timed online exam, adaptive release (2 hours with extra time for students with provisions), students chose their own start time across a 1-week window. |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Factual | Remember | ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide. |
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