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070141 SE Research Seminar Global History - Globalization and Critique of Globalization (2021S)
in historical comparison
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 08.02.2021 09:00 to Mo 22.02.2021 14:00
- Registration is open from We 24.02.2021 09:00 to Fr 26.02.2021 14:00
- Deregistration possible until We 31.03.2021 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
The seminar will start on Wednesday, 10 March, as an online course. As soon as the situation allows, we will meet in person in a big plenary room at Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz (HS 10).
- Wednesday 10.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Digital
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Wednesday
17.03.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
24.03.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
14.04.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
21.04.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
28.04.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
05.05.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
12.05.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
19.05.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
26.05.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
02.06.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
09.06.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
16.06.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock -
Wednesday
23.06.
11:30 - 14:45
Hybride Lehre
Hörsaal 10 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
The medieval period is still heavily underrepresented in global history debates. Yet, the late medieval period was characterised by intense trans-regional trade networks reaching from the Iberian Peninsula to Southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Black Sea, and from Flanders to the British Islands, Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea area. Political, religious and intellectual contacts as well as military conflicts enabled long-distance knowledge sharing and the transfer of practices as well as a rapid spreading of deadline viruses. In the second half of the 14th century, the virus Yersinia pestis spread from Central Asia to the Middle East, the Mediterranean World and all parts of Europe, returned in several waves over many decades and killed larger parts of the world population. No wonder that contemporaries as well as historians have considered the so-called Black Death as a decisive factor in late medieval history. In contemporary sources as well as in historiography, the pandemic disease has played a central role both in identity discourses and political argumentation as well as in historiographical meta narratives to explain socio-economic and political or intellectual change.In the research seminar, we will study historical and historiographical explanations and interpretations of the Black Death and its consequences for economy, society and politics. We will analyse and compare medieval documents from different parts of the medieval world and discuss competing and at times contradictory narratives in historiography. Four aspects will be at the heart of our discussion: 1. The transmission of the virus. 2. Socio-economic consequences for the distribution of land. 3. Shifts in labour relations. 4. Processes of marginalisation and criminalisation.
Assessment and permitted materials
- Regular attendance and active participation (10%)
- Weekly readings and assignments (20%)
- Concept presentation for seminar paper (20%)
- Seminar paper (50%)
- Weekly readings and assignments (20%)
- Concept presentation for seminar paper (20%)
- Seminar paper (50%)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
For a positive valuation,
- no more than two missing hours
- no more than two missing assignments
- the concept presentation must be passed with 4.0 or better
- the seminar paper must be passed with 4.0 or better
- no more than two missing hours
- no more than two missing assignments
- the concept presentation must be passed with 4.0 or better
- the seminar paper must be passed with 4.0 or better
Examination topics
Reading list
- Barker, Hannah. “Laying the Corpses to Rest. Grain Embargoes and the Early Transmission of the Black Death in the Black Sea, 1346–1347.” In Speculum 96,1 (2021)
Association in the course directory
MA Globalgeschichte und Global Studies
MA Geschichte: Schwerpunkt Globalgeschichte
MA Geschichte: Schwerpunkt Globalgeschichte
Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:13