MO3040 From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c.1500 - c.1800)

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr J G Purdy

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Module Staff

Dr Jessica Purdy

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Module description

The sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries were a time of profound social, political, economic, religious, and legal change. This module explores life and death in early modern England. It considers a range of topics, including family and community, courtship and marriage, social relations, poverty and its relief, male and female, recreation and leisure, education, literacy and communication, the body and health, and death. It uses a range of primary source material and secondary reading to enable students to gain an insight into the long-lost material environment and mental world of this fascinating period, and to view it from the perspective of the common man and woman.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS AT LEAST 60 CREDITS FROM {MO1007, MO1008, MO2008, HI2001, MH2002}

Assessment pattern

2-hour Written Examination = 40%, Coursework = 60%

Re-assessment

4,000-word essay = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2-hour seminar, plus 1 office hour.

Scheduled learning hours

22

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

278

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.