War, State and Society: The Hundred Years War (1337-1453), Part 1

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The origins, events and effects of the Hundred Years War in the fourteenth century
• The wider European contexts of these events and developments
• A range of primary sources and evidence, pertaining to topics of study, that indicate different viewpoints and subjects of controversy in this period
• The ways historians have approached the study of Hundred Years War in the fourteenth century

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify and utilise relevant textual, visual, oral history sources in the library and on-line
• work independently to identify and solve problems
• refine your skills in time-management

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• marshal the arguments and evidence you find in your research into well-organised essays
• understand and contextualise primary source material and apply this in assessed exercises
• analyse critically a variety of textual, visual and oral history evidence from the period
• Engage with seminal and recent historiographical texts on that subject

Topics to be covered in the first semester of the course may include:

• The Feudal Issue: Angevin Empire and English Gascony
• The Dynastic Issue: Anglo-French relations 1307-40 and the French succession
• Edward III's casus belli, 1337-1340
• A final peace? The treaty of Brétigny-Calais (1360)
• War by proxy: Scotland and Castile
• The creation of the principality of Aquitaine (1362-1367)
• Kings and Kingship: Edward III and Charles V
• Why men fought? Or Military recruitment in the fourteenth century
• The ways of war: chevauchées and battles (from Crécy to Poitiers, 1346-1356)
• The ravages of war: England and France, a comparative approach

Teaching methods include:

• presentations by students on secondary reading and primary sources
• small and large group discussions
• structured in-depth reading and analysis of the module texts
• field trip (where possible depending on national guidelines applicable at the time)

Learning activities include:

• preparatory reading, individual research and study prior to each class
• preparing and delivering short presentations relating to aspects of the module, as directed by the tutor
• close study of textual, visual and oral history primary sources
• participation in small and large group discussion

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.