Third Level Courses in the School of History

This pages list all third level modules taught within the School of History. The range of modules from which students can choose is determined by their degree programme.

The module code provides a link to the University Course Catalogue. Click on the module title to view more information about a particular module

ME3012

Heroic History: The age of Beowulf

ME3016

Ireland in the Later Middle Ages

ME3101

Britons and Saxons

ME3102

Gildas and the Ruin of Britain, c.367-570

ME3103

Mediaeval Rome c. 590 - c. 1300

ME3104

The Vikings: Invasion, Settlement and Conversion, c750-1050

ME3142

The Castle in Mediaeval Scotland

ME3162

The Mediaeval Castle

ME3206

Heretics and Social Outcasts in Western Europe

ME3222

Inca Civilisation and its Destruction

ME3223

Power and Politics in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe, c. 800 - 1000

ME3231

Mediaeval Apocalyptic Traditions c.400 - c.1200

ME3232

Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe

ME3233

The Gothic and Frankish Kingdoms 400-700

ME3234

Empires and Rebellions: The World of Adam of Bremen

ME3301

The End of the Middle Ages? Scotland and England in the Fifteenth Century

ME3303

Court, Culture and Commentators: The Renaissance in Late Mediaeval Scotland

ME3304

Age of Conquest: Edward I, Scotland and Wales (1239-1307)

ME3308

Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages

ME3309

Mediaeval St Andrews

ME3407

Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law and Lordship

ME3408

The Black Death and the Peasants' Revolt in England

ME3162

The Mediaeval Castle

ME3417

The Middle Ages and the Movies

ME3425

The Age of Revolt, 1250-1450

ME3426

Women and Gender in Later Mediaeval Europe

ME3602

The Crusades

ME3608

Eastern Approaches: Early Mediaeval Armenia c. 500 - 750

ME3609

The Mongols and the West

ME3610

The Ottoman Empire from Mediaeval Anatolia to Suleyman the Magnificent

ME3611

The Eastern Roman Empire in the reign of Justinian, 527-565

ME3612

Cataclysm and consolidation: The Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century

ME3613

The formation of Islamic Iran: from the Arab conquests tot he Seljuq Empire (600-1200)

 

MO3005

The Early Reformation in Europe, 1517-55

MO3008

The Habsburgs and Germany in the 16th Century: Maximilian I to Rudolf II, 1477-1612

MO3011

Society and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century France

MO3012

The Medici, Savonarola and Machiavelli: Florence 1434-1527

MO3015

Mental World in England, 1550-1800

MO3019

The Life of the Mind: Key Texts in European Thought, 1512-1697

MO3023

Disease and the Environment, c. 1500 - 2000

MO3025

Empire and Nation: The Development of Colonial British America, 1607 - 1770

MO3026

Art and Piety in Western Europe, 1400-1700

MO3027

Women and Men in Europe, 1500-1800

MO3029

The Northern Renaissance

MO3033

Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period

MO3034

Picturing Politics and Society in Early Modern England: Images of Power and Corruption from Van Dyck to Gillray, c.1630-c.1800

MO3035

The Decline of Spain, 1556-1700

MO3036

The Italian Renaissance

MO3037

Renaissance Information Technology

MO3038

War and the State in the Era of the “Military Revolution” (1550-1730)

MO3039

England’s Long Reformation: The Politics of Religion, c.1500-c.1700

MO3040

From Cradle to Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England, c. 1500 - 1800

MO3041

Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England, c.1500-1800

MO3042

News: before the daily (1400-1800)

MO3043

Early Modern Rome, 1300 – 1667

MO3044

Early Modern Venice

MO3045

The Politics of Monarchy in Tudor and Stuart England, 1500-1685

MO3063

Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History

MO3080

Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722)

MO3103

The Rise of Prussia, c. 1600-1786

MO3104

The Transformation of the European Nobility 1600-1800

MO3110

African Americans in Slavery and Freedom, 1620-1865

MO3111

The Restoration Worlds of Samuel Pepys

MO3163

Scotland and the Wider World, c. 1600-1750

MO3214

The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime, 1715-1789

MO3215

Persia in the 18th Century 1722-1834 (The Age of the Warlords)

MO3216

Science and Nation-Building in Europe, 1750 - 1900

MO3217

Travel Cultures in Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries

MO3218

The American Revolution

MO3219

Print Culture in Britain, 1750-1900

MO3260

Constructing Identities: Scottish Historians and the Past

MO3262

Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland, 1780-1914

MO3280

Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (The Age of the Warlords)

MO3302

Imperial Russia, 1815-1917

MO3308

Approaches to Historical Theory

MO3309

The Evolution of British Democracy, 1832-1918

MO3311

Britain and the Scramble for Africa, 1865-1904

MO3314

Environmental History: Nature and the Western World, 1800-2000

MO3317

A 'Struggle for Mastery in Europe'? German Foreign Policy from Bismarck to Hitler, 1871-1939

MO3318

Revolutions, Nationalism and Reaction: 1848-1849 in the German Lands

MO3319

'Power without Responsibility'? The Press and British Politics, 1850 - 1939

MO3320

Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947

MO3321

Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800-2000)

MO3323

Splendid Isolation or Continental Commitment? Britain and Europe, 1814-1914

MO3326

Jihad, Community and Identity: Islamic Political Thought Past and Present

MO3327

Modern Iran since 1834: reform and revolution

MO3328

Italy from Unification to Fascism

MO3329

The Kaiser. Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II, 1859-1941

MO3330

French Media since 1870

MO3331

The Victorians: Religion and Respectability

MO3332

From Commonwealth to Nations and Nation-States: Poland-Lithuania in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond

MO3333

Language and Nationalism in Central Europe

MO3360

The Weaker Sex? Women and Scottish Society, 1800-1970

MO3361

Scottish Social Problems, 1800-1990

MO3381

French Algeria, 1830-1962

MO3384

Jihad, Community and Identity: Islamic political thought past and present

MO3385

Modern Iran since 1834: Reform and Revolution

MO3402

The United States since 1896

MO3404

Britain in the Era of the Great War

MO3406

The Soviet Union

MO3410

The Third Reich: History and Historiography

MO3419

The French 'civil wars' of the 20th Century

MO3421

Making People’s Music: The Folk Music Revival and Society in the United States, 1900-1970

MO3422

The United States in Depression and War, 1929-1945

MO3423

Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinst Soviet Union.

MO3502

War and Welfare: Britain 1939-1951

MO3504

Central and Eastern Europe since 1945

MO3508

America and Vietnam

MO3513

Heavenly Decade: The 1960s

MO3514

The Life and Times of the Atom Bomb

MO3516

Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880-1960

MO3518

Intellectuals in Interwar Europe, 1918-1939

MO3520

Political Culture in Postwar European Democracies: History, Memory & Identity, 1945-2005

MO3712

An "Army with a Country"? The Military and Militarism in Prusso-German History, 1640-1945

MO3713

The American Metropolis

MO3714

Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911)

MO3780

Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911)

MO3901

Nazi Germany, 1933-1945