Medieval Primary Sources Seminar
Objectives
- Analyse four different types of documents/themes per semester under different perspectives (for each document/ set of topics)
- Accrue the student's awareness with practical examples, emphasising the potential of one source for the research of several different scientific areas and the usefullness of several different types of document for the study of one theme.
- Abiblity to find, compile, contextualize and interpret substantial quantities of medieval documents, in the context of using all their potential.
- Ability to understand the importance of aplying in practice principles of rigour in the research in medieval interdisciplinary studies and the importance of criticising the sources in a proficient manner.
General characterization
Code
73227100
Credits
12.0
Responsible teacher
Maria João Violante Branco
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 336
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- ALTHOFF,G., FRIED,J., GEARY,P.(eds.) Medieval concepts of the Past. Ritual, Memory, Historiography, Cambridge: CUP, 2002
- BRUNDAGE, A., Going to the Sources.A Guide to Historical Research and Writing, 5ª ed., Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
- Cantigas de Santa Maria (Portal em http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk)
- CASSEN, A. (ed), Handbook of Medieval Studies, 3 vols. , Berlin-New York:De Gruyter, 2010
- Historiography of Medieval Portugal (MATTOSO et al. eds.), Lisboa: IEM, 2011
- KRUS, L. A concepção nobiliárquica do espaço ibérico. (...), Lisboa: FCG, 1994
- TILLEY, C. A Phenomenology of landscape. Places, paths and monuments.Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1994
Teaching method
The teaching methods used in this seminar are based on the principles of the pedagogical model implemented at UAb for postgraduate studies, including:
1. Collaborative learning through the participation in asynchronous discussions and joint activities on the issues being studied;
2. Individual research resulting in the production of essays related to the four topics/ documents being studied.
3. Continuous assessment of doctoral students by weighting all participation activities in the topics studied during the seminar (60% for preliminary reports and 40% for final essay).
Evaluation method
Continuous Assessment - Final essay(40%), Preliminary reports(60%)
Subject matter
0.SOURCES FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES: Potentialities and Limits
A. ONE SOURCE, MANY APPROACHES
1- The "Livros de Linhagens do Conde D. Pedro"
Intentions; Genealogy; Mental Mechanisms; Kinship Structures; Phisical, Symbolical and economic space; Emotions;
Violence; Power Relations and Struggles
or
2- "Cantigas de Santa Maria"
Intentions; Music and Image; Politicas and Propaganda; Word and Language; Material Culture; Daily Life; Visible and Invisible Powers, Ethnic Minorities
B. SEVERAL SOURCES, ONE TOPIC
1- Image, Authority and Memory in the Middle Ages (12th-15th cent.)
Sources: 1) Narrative texts; 2) Iconography 3) Normative Texts
2- Medieval Rural and Urban Communities: the perspective of Archaeology
Sources: Excavation reports, artifacts, materialities, space