Module Information
Module Identifier
HYM8230
Module Title
THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR 1337-1453
Academic Year
2010/2011
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 2
Co-Requisite
Other Staff
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Brief description
This course will examine the Anglo-French war and its effects through late medieval politics, military history, and elite culture during the period 1337-1453, utilizing both literary and iconographic evidence. It will encourage students to review a range of relevant primary and secondary material in order to gain a developed sense of the period and issues pertaining to war and warfare in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The Hundred Years War was one of the most prolonged and consequential conflicts of the Middle Ages. In socio-political terms it witnessed the territorial emergence of modern day France, the complete loss of England’s continental possessions (except Calais), and an increased nationalism in both England and France, exhibited through the flourishing of vernacular literature. In military terms the war produced destruction on a grand scale, but also saw new methods in recruitment, financing, and military technology: most notably the use of gunpowder weapons. Such crucial developments will sit at the heart of the analysis in this module and will allow students to engage with an exciting range of primary and secondary material.
The Hundred Years War was one of the most prolonged and consequential conflicts of the Middle Ages. In socio-political terms it witnessed the territorial emergence of modern day France, the complete loss of England’s continental possessions (except Calais), and an increased nationalism in both England and France, exhibited through the flourishing of vernacular literature. In military terms the war produced destruction on a grand scale, but also saw new methods in recruitment, financing, and military technology: most notably the use of gunpowder weapons. Such crucial developments will sit at the heart of the analysis in this module and will allow students to engage with an exciting range of primary and secondary material.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | n/a |
| Communication | Through seminar discussion and essay writing. Only the latter is formally assessed. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | By guided reflection during seminars and feedback sessions following submission of written work. |
| Information Technology | |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Through furthering understanding of the discipline of history and the opportunities for research that it offers. |
| Problem solving | By understanding how historians employ a variety of different methodological approaches towards understanding problems within their field. |
| Research skills | By learning how to identify appropriate primary and secondary sources and utilising that material in their work. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Develop a knowledge of how historians have used chronicles and other medieval literary and iconographic sources to construct an understanding of late medieval politics, warfare, and elite culture. |
| Team work | Such skills will be developed through seminar work. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7