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
Modes of study
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).