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HIST 449 Medieval Mediterranean History Units: 3.00
Thematic topics in the history of the societies and religious cultures of the Mediterranean region during the medieval era. These can include comparative and cross-cultural studies of enslavement, piracy, war, persecution of minorities, state formation, imperial rule, and cultural exchange across the Latin West, Byzantium, and Islamic World.
Learning Hours: 144 (36 Seminar, 108 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Specialization, Major, or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum grade of C+ in 6.0 units from HIST 300-330.
Course Equivalencies: HIST 449, HIST 449B
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify, appraise, and critique historiographical arguments and scholarly debates on the subjects of the treatment of ethnic and religious minorities, identity and difference, patterns of trade, enslavement, piracy and war in the Mediterranean world in written and oral form.
- Interpret translated primary source documents and materials as evidence and distinguish analysis of them from secondary scholarship and historiography from Islamicate, Latin, and Byzantine societies in short writing, oral presentations, and seminar discussion.
- Find and evaluate primary sources, historical scholarship in bibliographic form in independent research on a topic the student develops in an aspect of medieval Mediterranean history.
- Construct historical arguments using available evidence from chronicles, religious treatises, correspondence, treaties, hagiographies, visual and material cultural products and other forms of pre-modern source evidence and integrate arguments into scholarly, historiographical debates.
- Formulate, support, and develop a historical thesis and inquiry in an independent research paper.