Catholic Church and Royalty in the Middle Ages

Objectives

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General characterization

Code

722051248

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

João Luís Inglês Fontes

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

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Bibliography

ALMEIDA, Fortunato de, História da Igreja em Portugal, vol. I, Porto, 1967.
Dicionário de História da Igreja em Portugal, dir. A. A. Banha de Andrade, 3 vols., Lisboa, 1980-1984.
CANNING, J., \"Ideas of the state in thirteenth and fourteenth century commentators on the Roman Law\", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5ª série, 33 (1983), 1-27.
COLEMAN, Janet, Political Thought from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Oxford, Blackwell, 2000
Diccionário de História Religiosa de Portugal, (dir. AZEVEDO, Carlos), Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2000
WATT, J. A., \"Spiritual and temporal powers\", in Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c. 350-c. 1450, ed. J. Burns, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Sidney, 1991, pp. 367-423.
---, \"The theory of Papal monarchy in the thirteenth century\", Traditio 20 (1964), 180-317

Teaching method

The Seminar will be taught as a Research Seminar, with debate and joint sessions planned ahead with specific objectives, bearing in mind the progression and assessment of the work. If necessary, there will be individual tutorials, too. The Seminar will demand a serious commitment from the students, in terms of research and collaborative work, both individually and in groups.

Evaluation method

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Subject matter

PART 1 – Theory.
Relations betweem State and Churche inthe Medieval West (12th- 14th centuries)
Theory of the two swords: canonists and civilists
The Relationship between Church and Kings in the first dynasty in Portugal: questions, problems, voids
Part 2 – Practice: study of a case study
1. Bibliographical Search and presentation of results
2. Documentary search and compilation
3. Sistemation od the documentary evidence and of the questions it raises. Elaboration of the quesionnaire
4. Treatment of the data. Presentation of results and debate on the way forward.
5. Debate on partial results and definition of the plan for the colective work
6. Individual writting
7. Homogeneization of Works and group writting essays
8. Presentation and debate of the work.
9.Self-assessment and critique

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