General description

Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Learning outcomes

To understand the dynamics between the long continua and critical periods in history, and to understand the problematic nature of time period divisions and of the changes taking place in the historical concepts referring to and related to a certain time period.

Contents

Thematic examination of the shaping and changing of the Classical world, and of the birth and historical development of Europe in the Middle Ages, reaching all the way to the beginning of the Renaissance.

Teaching language

Finnish

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

The lectures and practical work can be substituted with the following literature: Braudel Fernand, The Mediterranean in the Ancient World (2001) and Bartlett Robert, The Making of Europe. Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Changes 950 1350 (1994) AND either Goodman M., The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180, London 1997, pages 3-189 and 289-329 or Le Goff Jacques The Birth of Europe (2005).

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