- Teacher: SHAIJY C MURINGATHIRY
- Teacher: Dr. ROY MATHEW M.
This paper discusses Medieval Indian history. Important topics covered in this paper are Delhi Sultanate, Mughal Empire, Vijayanagar Empire, Bhamini Kingdom etc.
- Teacher: PRIYANKA E.K.
- The course is prepared to create knowledge on medieval world through which students could able to understand different state systems, its socio- cultural contributions and its impact on later society.
- Along with a study on medieval European state and society, it focuses on the socio-political and economic currents of medieval Central Asia, West Asia and East Asia.
- The course would provide an understanding on scientific and intellectual interactions that taken place between the East and the West in the medieval period.
- It also explains the pattern of medieval medicinal system and its efficacy in dealing contagious diseases of the period
•MODULE I: Medieval World: State and Society
- •Europe after the collapse of Rome
- •Byzantine empire- Imperial system- Legal System
- •Carolingians – Charlemagne
- •Spread of Christianity: Papacy
- •Growth of Feudalism: Interactions of Germanic tribes with settled peoples-Features of feudalism- Nobility-Serfdom
- •Dynamics of change in feudal Europe-Technology- Demography
Module II- Medieval West Asia
•- Rise of Islam- Caliphate – Abbasids – Expansion of maritime trade
- •Iqta and changes in agrarian relations
- •Gunpowder Empires – The Ottoman empire and The Safavid empire in Persia
- •Arab Science – Mathematics, Astronomy, Alchemy, Optics and Medicine
Module III- Medieval China
- •Tang & Ming dynasties
- •Unification of China and emergence of centralized state systems- Bureaucracy – Civil service examination – Gentry society
- •Trade and reopening of trade route
- •Technological innovations- emergence of wood block printing
- •Peasant revolts
- •Maritime expedition – Cheng Ho
•Module IV- Aspects of Transition
- •Decline of Feudalism
- •Diseases and medicine in Medieval Europe-brief introduction
- •Scientific and intellectual interaction between Europe and Asia- Role of Crusades
- Teacher: Unni Krishnan