Postgraduate Course: Medieval Men and Masculinities (PGHC11369)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course introduces students to the study of medieval men and masculinities. The course focuses on a series of primary sources from the tenth to the twelfth centuries including Scandinavian sagas; chivalric romances; monastic histories and medieval letter collections. |
| Course description |
The course examines constructions and representations of medieval masculinities. Over the last twenty years there has developed considerable academic interest in this subject and students will be expected to engage fully with this historiography. The course examines three major themes (designated 'Course Units') taught through a series of ten seminars. These themes are: constructions of masculinity and the medieval life course (mothers and sons; young men; fathers and fatherhood); medieval men at war (the rise of the chivalric ideal; courtliness and taming the warrior; courage and cowardice); medieval men and the Church (the Herrenfrage; monastic masculinities; holiness and masculinity).
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2022/23, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment [100%] is through ONE 4000 word essay. The essay title is to be devised by the student in consultation with the course organiser. Essay titles must be agreed with the course organiser.
Students are required to submit an essay proposal and discuss their topic with the course organiser, however the 4000 word essay constitutes 100% of the mark. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Show an in-depth knowledge of the important themes and issues relating to the construction and representations of medieval masculinities
- Have a familiarity with the theoretical approaches to the subject of medieval men and masculinities
- Identify and follow lines of research in the subject area of medieval men and masculinities
- Demonstrate their analytical and presentational competency in written assignments, group discussion and oral presentations
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Reading List
ARNOLD, John, and BRADY, Sean, What is Masculinity?: Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World (Basingstoke, 2011)
ADAMS, Rachel and SAVRAN, David, eds., The Masculinity Studies Reader (Oxford, 2002)
BENNETT, Judith, History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Manchester,2006)
BEATTIE. Cordelia, FENTON, Kirsten A., Eds., Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages, (Basingstoke, 2011)
COHEN, Jeffrey Jerome, and WHEELER, Bonnie, Eds., Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (New York, 1997; 2000)
CONNELL, R.W., Gender and Power (Cambridge, 1987)
CONNELL, R.W., Masculinities (Cambridge, 1995)
CONNELL, R.W.,The Men and the Boys (Cambridge, 2000)
HADLEY, Dawn, M., Masculinity in Medieval Europe (Harlow, 1999)
LEES, Clare, ed., Medieval Masculinities. Regarding Men in the Middle Ages (Minneapolis and London, 1994)
MURRAY, Jacqueline, ed., Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West (London, 1999)
WHITEHEAD, Stephen M., and BARRETT, Frank J., eds., The Masculinities Reader (Cambridge, 2001)
WHITEHEAD, Stephen M., Men and Masculinities (Cambridge, 2002) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | MedMen&Masc Medieval Masculinities |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr William Aird
Tel: (0131 6)50 9968
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Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: |
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