COURSE SYLLABUS

HISTORY AND HISTORIANS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

1	Course Title:	HISTORY AND HISTORIANS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
2	Course Code:	TRH2075
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	2
6	Semester:	3
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	6
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Doç. Dr. ÖZNUR ÖZDEMİR
16	Course Lecturers:	Prof. Hasan Basri ÖCALAN
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Öznur Özdemir oznurozdemir@uludag.edu.tr Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Tarih Bölümü 16059 Nilüfer/BURSA
18	Website:	https://uludag.edu.tr/tr/tarih
19	Objective of the Course:	The aim is to learn about historiography in the Middle Ages and the first historians who pioneered it, to conduct a comparative analysis of historiography along the Western and Eastern axes, and to gain knowledge about how the profession of historiography evolved through the stages during the Middle Ages.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	In this course, the understanding of history in the Middle Ages will be analyzed firstly through the question "What is history?" Following this basic approach, the works produced in this period will be investigated week by week. Historiography and the mission of historians will be discussed and criticized with current discussion topics.

Learning Outcomes:

1	The student can develop an opinion within the framework of the questions: “Why was historiography necessary in the Middle Ages? what kind of purpose had historians?”;
2	The student can compare the works written in Europe and Islamic states in terms of historiography;
3	The student can gain knowledge about the names and books of medieval historians;
4	The student can evaluate the factors affecting historians in historiography and develop an opinion on these factors;
5	The student can learn the debates on medieval historiography and the theories of modern historians;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	What is history? How did historiography develop in the Middle Ages?
2	Powers and their history in the Middle Ages
3	Islamic Historians I: Ibn Ishaq, Al-Waqidi, Masudi
4	Islamic Historians II: Baladhuri, Tabari, Yaqubi
5	Sources of medieval Turkish history
6	Ibn Khaldun and his understanding of history
7	Ibn Battuta and his contribution to history
8	Understanding of history in Europe
9	Historiography in Europe
10	Church and history
11	Marco Polo and his contribution to history
12	Notker the Stammerer and the history of the kings of Europe
13	Gesta Francorum and Crusader history
14	Geoffrey of Monmouth and the history of the kings of England

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	- Carr, Edward Hallett, çev. Misket Gizem Gürtürk. Tarih nedir?. İletişim yayınları, 1996. - Christian, R. U. B. Y. "Tarih Nedir?." BELLETEN 55.213: 579-588. - Arnold, John H. What is medieval history?. John Wiley & Sons, 2020. - El-Belazuri, Ahmed B. Yahya, and Mustafa Fayda. Fütuhu'l-büldan. Siyer Yayınları, 2013. - Öz, Şaban. İlk siyer kaynakları ve müellifleri. Islâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültürünü Araştırma Vakfı, 2008. - Haldun, İbn. Mukaddime,çev. Süleyman Uludağ. Dergâh Yayınları, 1982. - Batuta, İbn, and A. Sait Aykut. İbn Battuta Seyahatnamesi. Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık, 2004. - Davis, Ralph Henry Carless. Ortaçağ Avrupa Tarihi, çev. Rümeysa Şişman. Dergah Yayınları 2020. - Pirenne, Henri, Ortaçağ Avrupası'nın Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi, çev. Uygur Kocabaşoğlu, İletişim Yayınları, 2009. - Polo, Marco, Seyahatname, çev. Leyla Tonguç Basmacı, Alfa Yayınları 2019. - Eco, Umberto, Ortaçağ-barbarlar, Hristiyanlar, Müslümanlar, Alfa Basım Yayın, 2014. - Einhard and Notker the Stammerer, Two Lives of Charlemagne, trans. L. Thorpe, Penguin Classics,1969. - Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, trans. L.Thorpe, Penguin Classics,1966. - Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum, The Deeds of the Franks and the Other Pilgrims to Jerusalem, ed. and trans. R. M. T. Hill, 1962.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Written Examination
Information	Written examination

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High