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131-424 Scholars, Religion and Politics

Year 4 History.

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Dr B Collett.

Contact: A 2-hour seminar per week.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should have gained an understanding of the complex interaction between politics, religion and the intellectual work of universities in Europe of the sixteenth century. Students are to acquire their own specialised knowledge of the period, and to develop skills in defining problems, formulating explanations testing them against theoretical models and regularly expounding their arguments within the seminars

Content:

A theory based study of pre-Reformation and Reformation England in its European context (1480-1540), especially the intermingling of politics and religion with intellectual developments in universities. Theoretical approaches - especially Marxist, post modernist and feminist - are considered in the context of this specific period, its recent historical debates, and students' own specialised research based upon available primary sources.

Assessment:

Written work amounting to no more than 6,000 words.

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Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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