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Custom and Community in England, Ca.1300-1800 (ES0082)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-CCEng

This specialist course is organised on the basis of nine 1.5 hour lecture/seminar sessions. It is available to make up the second half of a two-term programme on the economic and social development of medieval and early modem Europe. The focus of the course is on England from the later middle ages through to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Its primary aim is to introduce students to the study of local societies and communities and to explore some of the sources through which this might be pursued. It examines the economic structures, social relationships and cultural forms, which contributed to a sense communal identity and analyses the extent of their change over time.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 30 minutes per week for 9 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course seeks to develop:
- An advanced knowledge of, and competency in, a specialist field of economic and social history.
- A thorough knowledge of the secondary literature on local and regional communities in late medieval and early modern England.
- A basic knowledge of the primary sources available to economic, social and cultural historians of local society in this period.
- An ability to produce a sustained piece of written work which utilises a particular primary source, or body of sources, in the study of a chosen local society in a given period.