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HI401A: SPECIAL SUBJECT: PEACEMAKING AND BLOODFEUD IN SCOTLAND (2022-2023)

Last modified: 30 Aug 2022 14:30


Course Overview

The role of violent feuding among the nobility has been fundamental to scholarship on medieval and early modern Scotland. Focusing on 15th-century evidence, this course explores the exercise of lordship, changes in law and justice, and tools of conflict management – including the making of peace – which shaped the governance of the realm and structured society. Students will assess the strengths and limits of the existing framework of historical analysis of feuding in Scotland.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 4
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Jackson Armstrong

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Either Programme Level 4 or Programme Level 5
  • History (HI)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Debate over the extent and role of violent feuding among the nobility, and in this the role of the crown and the relationship between crown and landowners, has been fundamental to generations of scholarship on late medieval and early modern Scotland. Focusing especially on the fifteenth century, this course explores the nature and exercise of lordship, changes in and uses of law and the judicial system, and diverse mechanisms of conflict management, all of which shaped the governance of the realm. Evaluating evidence such as bonds of manrent, arbitration and marriage contracts, legal and parliamentary records, and chronicles, the course will examine the roles of law, violence and peacemaking in structuring society. Students will assess the strengths and limits of the existing framework of historical analysis of feuding in Scotland.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Gobbet Responses

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 20
Assessment Weeks 11 Feedback Weeks 13

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Feedback

Students will provide 2 x gobbet responses to sources available in a primary source pack.

Feedback will be provided online through MyAberdeen and through the standard departmental feedback form. Further group feedback will be delivered in class.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandDemonstrate advanced understanding of conflict, law and lordship in Scottish politics and society in the later middle ages.
ProceduralAnalyseArticulate convincing analysis of different types of evidence, understanding and applying different historical methodologies.
ProceduralEvaluateCritically appraise primary source materials and secondary scholarship.
ReflectionCreateFormulate viable research questions; Demonstrate improved verbal and written expression skills.

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 20
Assessment Weeks 14 Feedback Weeks 16

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Feedback

Students will produce a 1000-word essay relating to a topic chosen in consultation with course co-ordinator.

Feedback will be provided online through MyAberdeen and through the standard departmental feedback form. Further group feedback will be delivered in class.

Word Count 1000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandDemonstrate advanced understanding of conflict, law and lordship in Scottish politics and society in the later middle ages.
ProceduralAnalyseArticulate convincing analysis of different types of evidence, understanding and applying different historical methodologies.
ProceduralEvaluateCritically appraise primary source materials and secondary scholarship.
ReflectionCreateFormulate viable research questions; Demonstrate improved verbal and written expression skills.

Online Exam comprising of gobbet discussions and essay-style questions

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
Assessment Weeks 20 Feedback Weeks 24

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Feedback

In line with standard History special subject exam: students will answer a mixture of gobbet responses and examination questions regarding material from across the course.

Individual feedback will be provided on request.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandDemonstrate advanced understanding of conflict, law and lordship in Scottish politics and society in the later middle ages.
ProceduralAnalyseArticulate convincing analysis of different types of evidence, understanding and applying different historical methodologies.
ProceduralEvaluateCritically appraise primary source materials and secondary scholarship.
ReflectionCreateFormulate viable research questions; Demonstrate improved verbal and written expression skills.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Take Home Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionCreateFormulate viable research questions; Demonstrate improved verbal and written expression skills.
ProceduralEvaluateCritically appraise primary source materials and secondary scholarship.
ProceduralAnalyseArticulate convincing analysis of different types of evidence, understanding and applying different historical methodologies.
ConceptualUnderstandDemonstrate advanced understanding of conflict, law and lordship in Scottish politics and society in the later middle ages.

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