The subject of the European Middle Ages, with a special emphasis on people’s lives and travels, is a cultural-historical subject. We study the period from the fall of the Roman Empire at the end of the 5th century and until the Reformation at the beginning of the 16th century. Great emphasis is on providing the students with training in the technique of writing assignments and insight into both different historical interpretations and long-term historical development lines.
The motivation for developing the activity is that the teaching of this subject will support the students in the process of writing a take-home assignment on a topic of their own choice. The learning objective of the activity is that the students embark on the academic writing process and gain an insight into the different phases of the writing process. The activity may be used in the different phases of assignment writing and for the selection of an assignment topic.
