Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Key primary sources for the study of the chivalry
- The social, political, technologic and economic changes in the late Middle Ages
- The multiple facets of chivalry, as an order of knights, an ethos, a status and a concept
- The aristocratic culture in the late Middle Ages
- Order and Hierarchy in Medieval Society
- Medieval legacy to western societies: A system of values based on honour
Cognitive Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Analyse critically these primary sources: extract relevant information from them and comment upon this information perceptively (using secondary sources)
- Use technical vocabulary relating to chivalry: chivalry, vassal, lord, nobility, feudalism, tournaments, jousts, indentures, brotherhood-in-arms, round tables, Arthurian romances, orders of chivalry, etc.
- Engage with historical debates.
- Structure your ideas and research findings into written assignments (essays and commentaries)
- Identify nature, aims and composition of contemporary sources both textual and iconographic
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Select and analyse critically relevant information for the study of a particular topic
- Select relevant information and provide a critical analysis of it
- Develop sound and well supported arguments
- Analyse a (historical) concept in all its complexity
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 45 |
Lecture | 11 |
Follow-up work | 45 |
External visits | 4 |
Revision | 18 |
Seminar | 11 |
Completion of assessment task | 16 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Saul, N. (2011). For Honour and Fame. Chivalry in England, 106-1500. London.
Kaeuper, R. W (1999). Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe. Oxford.
Coss, P (1998). The Lady in Medieval England, 1000-1500. Trowbridge.
Guard, T (2013). Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade: The English Experience in the fourteenth Century. Woodbridge.
Vale, M.G.A (1981). War and chivalry: warfare and aristocratic culture in England, France and Burgundy at the end of the Middle Ages. London.
Stevenson, K (2006). Chivalry and knighthood in Scotland, 1424-1513. Woodbridge.
Keen, M (1996). Nobles, knights, and men-at-arms in the Middle Ages. London.
Keen, M., (2002). Origins of the English gentleman: heraldry, chivalry and gentility in medieval England , c.1300-c.1500. Stroud.
Trim, D.J.B., ed (2003). The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism. Leiden.
Keen, M (1984). Chivalry. New Haven and London.
Loomis, R.S., ed (1959). Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Oxford.
Barber, R. and Barker, J.R.V (1989). Tournaments, jousts, chivalry and pageants in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Presentation
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Feedback on presentation will be given verbally in the seminars and there will also be the possibility to discuss them in tutorials
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Commentary | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assessed written tasks | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External