COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EAST AND WEST IN THE MIDDLE AGE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SEYHUN ŞAHIN

Offered to

History

Course Objective

Our main objective in the course where political, religious and social structures of Europe and Islamic World in the middle age will be studied from comparative point of view is to introduce main literary sources and argumentations about Eastern and Western civilisations, and to give ability of evaluating their socio-cultural and economic progress as well as their political history, explaining and analyzing their transformative and formative changes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   know literature about eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
2   define development of eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
3   learn main tittles of eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
4   interpret historical, social and economic development of eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
5   evaluate place and role of eastern and western civilizations in the world history

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Understanding East and West in the middle age Defining esatern and western civilizations
2 Political structures after the Roman Empire in Europe the Callops of the Western Roman Empire and the emerging states
3 Empires and Kingships in the medieval Europe I The Frankish empires established in medieval Europe
4 Empires and Kingships in the medieval Europe II Relations between England, France, the papacy and Byzantium in medieval Europe
5 States that marked in Islamic World I Prominent tates in the Islamic World I: Umayyads, Abbasids, Karahans, Gaznes
6 States that marked in Islamic World II Prominent between in the Islamic World II: selçukular, memuklar, Eyyubids
7 Feodal system in Europe: similarities and differences between eastern and western feodalities the Concept of feudalism: feudalism in the east and west
8 Mid-term exam
9 Causes, realization and results of the Crusades the History of crusades
10 Effects of the Crusades in Christian and Muslim Worlds influences of the crusades on the eastern and western world
11 Trade between East and West in the middle age
12 Science in eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
13 Cultural contacts and interactions between the eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
14 Prejudices dated from Middle Ages between the eastern and western civilizations in the middle age
15 General Evaluation
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Baltrusaitis, Jurgis, Düşsel Ortaçağ, Çev. M. A. Kılıçbay, Imge Kitabevi, Ank., 2001.
Bedirhan, Y., Ortaçağ Tarihi, Çizgi Yay.,Ist., 2004.
Bloch, M., Feodal Toplum, Çev. M. A. Kılıçbay, Opus Yay., 3.b., Ank., 1998.
Cahen, Claude, Islamiyet, çev. N. Erendor, Istanbul, 1990.
Çağatay, Neşet, Islam Tarihi, TTK, Ankara, 1993.
Çetin, Kenan, Selçuklu Medeniyeti Tarihi, Istanbul, 2011.
Daş, Mustafa, Bizans ın Düşüşü, Yeditepe Yay., Istanbul, 2006.
Duby, Georges, Ortaçağ Insanları ve Kültürü, Çev. M. A. Kılıçbay, Imge Kitabevi, 2.b., Ank., 1995.
Gimpel, J., Ortaçağda Endüstri Devrimi, TÜBITAK Yay., 1997.
Guryeviç, A., Ortaçağ Avrupası'nda Birey, Afa Yay., 1995.
Herrin, Judit, Bizans Bir Ortaçağ Imparatorluğunun Şaşırtıcı Yaşamı, Çev. U. Kocabaşoğlu, Iletişim Yay., Istanbul, 2010.
C. cahen, Doğu-Batı, Istanbul, 2013.
H. Inalcık, Rönesans Avrupası- Türkiye'nin Btaı Ile Özdeşleşme Süreci, Istanbul, 2012.

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Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

iterature study and discussions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

TBA

Assessment Criteria

1) LO 1-3 will be asked in mid-term exam
2) LO 1-5 will be asked in final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

%70 attandence is mandatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

seyhun.sahin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday: 15:00-16:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 16 3 48
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 160

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.134
LO.234
LO.3334
LO.433
LO.533

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