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At the end of this module students will have
- a knowledge and understanding of discourses around virtue ethics in the first millennium
- a knowledge and understanding of the experiences of a range of women in the first millennium in asserting civic, communal and religious virtue
- an appreciation of how to work with Late Antique and Early Medieval source materials
- an appreciation of scholarship on the subject
This module will address such topics as:
• Virtue and the mind in ancient and early medieval education (ex. Musonius Rufus and Dhuoda)
• Rhetoric and the construction of virtue on the public stage (ex. Conquestio Sulpiciae and Passio Perpetuae et Felicitiae)
• Crafting the physicality of virtue in the mateiral world (ex. Queen Gerberga’s so-called Kriegsfahne)
• The performance of virtue (ex. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s Sapientia or Kassia’s hymns)
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 11 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 22 |
Specified Learning Activities | 95 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 95 |
Total | 223 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Continuous Assessment: Participation | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Continuous Assessment: Oral presentation and short analysis: A short oral presentation and an accompanying written analysis on a primary source (text or object) brought to supplement the week’s topic | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Essay: 3-4,000-word essay due in week 13 | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Not yet recorded.
Name | Role |
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Professor Michael Staunton | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Seminar | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Thurs 09:00 - 10:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Wed 15:00 - 15:50 |