Paper 1A: The Age of the Crusades, 1071-1204
This option allows students to study in breadth issues of change, continuity, cause and consequence in this period through the following key questions:
- What were the motives of the crusaders and the counter-crusaders?
- What problems faced the states in Outremer and how successfully were these problems addressed?
- How important were faith and ideas for Christians and Muslims?
- What was the impact of the crusades on the Muslim Near East?
- How did the Byzantine Empire, Outremer and the Latin West change and what influenced relations between them?
- How important was the role of key individuals and groups and how were they affected by developments?
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Paper 2E: The English Revolution, 1625-1660
This option provides for the study in depth of the challenges faced by those in authority in the years before, during and after the English Civil War. It explores concepts such as Divine Right; arbitrary government, Arminianism, and political and religious radicalism. It also encourages an in-depth understanding of how government works, arbitrary government and consensus, authority and opposition and issues of settlement.
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