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With defeat in the War of the Two Kings (1688-91), the court of James II and VII moved into permanent exile. This course examines the political, cultural and social history of the Jacobite movement, which retained loyalty to the Stuart claimant through much of the eighteenth century. It examines key events, like the 1715 and 1745 Risings; it compares the reach and depth of the movement in the various nations of the British archipelago; it identifies the European and Atlantic networks that sustained the culture of Jacobitism; and, finally, it traces the cultural legacy from Walter Scott to Highlander.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course explores the reach, depth and scope of the Jacobite movement as it was found in both Britain and Ireland, and in its diasporic would in Europe and the Atlantic basin. It provides a strong narrative of the movement through the various risings and plots and through its successes and disappointments, while also examining its cultural repertoire and its literary output. The course enables students to think about questions of political activism, the persistence of cultural identity and the politics of reaction and revolution.
Topics will include the rising of 1715 and 1745; the conspirational politics that informed events like the Atterbury plot of 1719; the court-in-exile and its peregrinations through Europe; the religious politics of the various Stuart claimants and the literary output of Jacobite-inspired poets for Alexander Pope to the Irish-language poetry of Aoghán Ó Rathaille. Throughout, attention will be paid to the three kingdom context in which the Jacobite movement operated. Wider context will, also, be provided by examining how a Jacobite diaspora moved through the British Empire, by looking at cases in the American colonies and the Carribean.
Students will be assessed in two ways: through the deployment of debating points that will emerge from their reading and inform the seminars they will attend, and through two pieces of written work that will examine their ability to contextualise their work within an understanding of the broad secondary literature.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Part of this participation element involves the production of weekly debating points whereby each student will contribute to a discussion board with 3 thoughts, questions or ideas related to the weekly readings (or their wider reading) at least 24hrs ahead of the seminar. This contributes to their overall participation mark. Feedback will be in the form of email notification of marks with comments; and grades uploaded to MyAberdeen. Continuously assessed with feeback in the 13th week of the course |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Factual | Understand | Have a broad understanding of narrative line of the Jacobite movement, and the cultural legacy of Jacobitism in the centuries since. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 25 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
1,500 word assignment, primary source (Gobbet exercise) Written feedback and grade will be provided via the MyAberdeen marking system as well as the opportunity to get further feedback in in-person meetings. Indicative assessment week: week 4 of teaching of the course. Feedback in week 6. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Be able to analyse and interpret central themes in the Jacobite literature, such as the politics of nostalgia; the nature of kin loyalty and the question of political polarisation. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Develop an understanding of the main drivers of British state formation and resistance to it, including religious and national identity and the nature of eighteenth-century kingship. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 55 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Written feedback and grade will be provided via the MyAberdeen marking system as well as the opportunity to get further feedback in in-person meetings. Indicative assessment week: week 8 of teaching of the course. Feedback in week 10. |
Word Count | 3500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Be able to analyse and interpret central themes in the Jacobite literature, such as the politics of nostalgia; the nature of kin loyalty and the question of political polarisation. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Be able to evaluate the central interpretive lines which shapes the secondary literature on the Jacobite movement in its national, diasporic, and global dimensions. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
A new 5000 word essay. Feedback will be in the form of email notification of marks with comments and via the MyAberdeen marking system. |
Word Count | 5000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Factual | Understand | Have a broad understanding of narrative line of the Jacobite movement, and the cultural legacy of Jacobitism in the centuries since. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Develop an understanding of the main drivers of British state formation and resistance to it, including religious and national identity and the nature of eighteenth-century kingship. |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Be able to analyse and interpret central themes in the Jacobite literature, such as the politics of nostalgia; the nature of kin loyalty and the question of political polarisation. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Be able to evaluate the central interpretive lines which shapes the secondary literature on the Jacobite movement in its national, diasporic, and global dimensions. |
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