Crusades

ROUTE A: CONQUEST, CONTROL AND RESISTANCE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

Route A: Conquest, control and resistance in the medieval world

This topic booklet has been written to support teachers delivering Route A of the 2015 AS and A level History specifications. We’re providing it in Word so that it’s easy for you to take extracts or sections from it and adapt them or give them to students.

For the route as a whole and for each topic within it, we’ve provided an overview which helps to provide contextual background and explain why we think these are fascinating topics to study. These overviews could be used, for example, in open evening materials or be given to students at the start of the course.

You’ll also find a student timeline, which can be given to students for them to add to and adapt, a list of resources for students and for teachers, and – where possible – information about overlap between these topics and the 2008 specification.

For more detail about planning, look out for the Getting Started guide, Course planner and schemes of work.

Contents

Route A: Conquest, control and resistance in the medieval world 1

Conquest, control and resistance in the medieval world 1

Overview 1

Route A student timeline 2

Paper 1, Option 1A: The crusades, c1095–1204 6

Overview 6

Content guidance 7

Themes 7

Historical interpretations: What explains the failure of the Fourth Crusade? 8

Mapping to 2008 specification 8

Resources and references 9

Paper 2, Option 2A.1: Anglo-Saxon England and the Anglo-Norman Kingdom, c1053–1106 14

Overview 14

Content guidance 15

Mapping to 2008 specification 17

Resources and references 21

Paper 2 Option 2A.2: England and the Angevin Empire in the reign of Henry II, 1154–89 24

Overview 24

Content guidance 25

Mapping to 2008 specification 26

Resources and references 30

Conquest, control and resistance in the medieval world

Overview...