Postgraduate Course: Governance in Scotland, 1424-1625 (PGHC11174)
Course Outline
School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | This supervised reading course is about how Scotland was governed in the late medieval period, with discussion of kings and their magnates, the church, and local government. There is particular emphasis on continuities into, and contrasts with, the period of more rapid governmental change in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. |
Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
The principal objective of the course is to provide students with specialist knowledge and understanding of how late medieval Scotland was governed. The main modes of recent scholarly analysis of Scottish kingship are analysed, together with the primary evidence which has been used to support analytical frameworks. Students will emerge from the course having developed a sufficient degree of expertise in the subject to undertake a Masters dissertation.
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Additional Information
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Special Arrangements |
Session 2009/10 - Please note that this course will run at mutually convenient times agreed by course members and the organiser. |
Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Julian Goodare
Tel: (0131 6)50 4021
Email: J.Goodare@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk |
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