Module Details

Module Code: HIST H8007
Full Title: Tolerance and Intolerance in Reformation Europe
Valid From:: Semester 1 - 2019/20 ( June 2019 )
Language of Instruction:English
Duration: 1 Semester
Credits:: 5
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Departments: Unknown
Module Description: no description provided
 
Module Learning Outcome
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Module Learning Outcome Description
MLO1 Investigate the main ideas of the advocates of tolerance and intolerance.
MLO2 Appraise the main ideas shaping religious war and religious peace in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe.
MLO3 Explain how religious toleration became embedded in European value systems.
MLO4 Debate the so-called "Witch Craze" as a historical phenomenon.
MLO5 Evaluate tolerance and intolerance as an historical problem in Early Modern Europe.
Pre-requisite learning
Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named DkIT module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
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Module Indicative Content
Module summary
The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation showed Christianity to be one of the most intolerant beliefs in world history. In pursuit of religious conformity both reformers and the Catholic Church showed a terrible appetite for persecution. Popular culture and the enthusiasm for witch-hunting also showed a willingness to indulge in deadly intolerance. This module explores the manifestations and the roots of intolerance and also describes how the value of tolerance was first advanced, then propagated and finally embedded in Enlightenment values.
Module content will include
• Tolerance and persecution in the pre-Reformation church • Jews, Heretics, Muslims, Pagans. • Lutheranism and religious difference • Calvinism and religious difference. • The Counter-Reformation and religious difference. • The Inquisition. • The English Reformation. • Radical Protestant sects. • The Witch-Craze. • Church, Rulers and religious difference. • The argument for Toleration. • Tolerance or indifference?
Module Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Course Work100.00%
Module Special Regulation
 

Assessments

Full-time

Course Work
Assessment Type Continuous Assessment % of Total Mark 40
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 4
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Students will research and write an analysis of an aspect of the "Witch Craze" based on the text Kramer and Sprenger’s Malleus Maleficarum, including a research bibliography; approx 2000 words
Assessment Type Essay % of Total Mark 60
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 1,2,3,5
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Based on the texts supplied and considered in tutorial and class students will research and write an historical essay analyzing tolerance and intolerance as theory and as practice in the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation; approx 2500 words
No Project
No Practical
No Final Examination

Part-time

Course Work
Assessment Type Continuous Assessment % of Total Mark 40
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 4
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Students will research and write an analysis of an aspect of the "Witch Craze" based on the text Kramer and Sprenger’s Malleus Maleficarum, including a research bibliography; approx 2000 words
Assessment Type Essay % of Total Mark 60
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 1,2,3,5
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Based on the texts supplied and considered in tutorial and class students will research and write an historical essay analyzing tolerance and intolerance as theory and as practice in the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation; approx 2500 words
No Project
No Practical
No Final Examination
Reassessment Requirement
No repeat examination
Reassessment of this module will be offered solely on the basis of coursework and a repeat examination will not be offered.

DKIT reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full-time
Workload Type Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact No Description Every Week 2.00 2
Tutorial Contact No Description Every Week 1.00 1
Directed Reading Non Contact No Description Every Week 2.00 2
Independent Study Non Contact No Description Every Week 4.00 4
Total Weekly Learner Workload 9.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 3.00
Workload: Part-time
Workload Type Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact No Description Every Week 2.00 2
Directed Reading Non Contact No Description Every Week 4.00 4
Independent Study Non Contact No Description Every Week 3.00 3
Total Weekly Learner Workload 9.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 2.00
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Kaplan, Benjamin. (2007), Divided by Faith: religious conflict and the practice of toleration in early modern Europe.
  • Zagorin, Perez. (2003), How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.
  • Pettegree, Andrew (ed). (2002), The Reformation World.
This module does not have any article/paper resources
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