Module HIST52130: COURT HISTORY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE, I

Department: History

HIST52130: COURT HISTORY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE, I

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• Introduction to the advanced study of early modern European court history.

Content

• The module will offer students the opportunity to examine selected topics of European court history from c.1500 - c.1800 reflecting current debate on the subject, and the particular interests of those students. Among the topics covered will be the organisation of courts through particular examples, the relationships between sovereign dynasties and the elites who served and surrounded them, and the cultural activities of those courts, including the visual arts.

Learning Outcomes

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Objectives are to be met through a programme of intensive directed reading, regular discussion of issues arising from the reading, and the production of an extensive piece of writing on an agreed subject.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Discussion of work in progress.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University