Course aims:

This course aims to introduce Archeology students to the main topics describing the World Medieval History since the demise of the Roman Empire to the sixteenth century.
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Course Entry Requirements:

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Course contents:

The origins of the medieval world. The formation of Barbarian kingdoms in the West (fourt-fifth centuries). The first and the second waves of migrations in the West. The genesis of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine heritage. The Carolingian Empire. The Carolingian Society. Economic, social and cultural characteristics. Europe in the tenth-eleventh centuries. The final stage in the ethnogenesis processes. The collapse of the Carolingian Empire. The new invasions and their consequences. The formation of the medieval state system in Europe. The Holy German Empire. The Western state system. Central and Eastern Europe. Europe and Islam. Political realities in the Islamic world. The Islam. The Arabs. The Selgiuk Turks. The Mongols. The recovery and expansion of Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The first crusades. Europe in the thirteenth and mid-fourteenth centuries. Europe from the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century. Catastrophes and crisis in Western Europe. Famine, Black Death and Wars. Europe from mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century. Political unrest and the formation of national states in the fifteenth century. Europe and the Ottoman World. The genesis of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Porte between 1453-1566. Europe at the end of the Middle-Ages. Society and economy in the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries. The Renaissance. The development of monetary economy system. The great geographical discoveries and the end of the Middle Ages.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Learning outcomes:

retrieval of written sources on the historical past; establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these; oral and written presentation in English of the specific discipline knowledge; concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Oral exam – 50 %; Research paper – 25%; Seminar activities – 25%.

Recommended reading:

The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. I-VII, edited by David Luscombe and Jonathan Riley-Smith, Cambridge, 1995-2006.
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