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Society and Culture in the Middle Ages

Objectives

a)To know the history of the medieval nobility: kinship, identity and power;
b) To know the international bibliography on medieval nobility;
c) To identify the main characteristics of the medieval nobility, using the right concepts to its study;
d) To be able to do research works.

General characterization

Code

722051169

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Miguel Beirão de Almeida Metelo de Seixas

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

-BECEIRO PITA, Isabel e CÓRDOBA DE LA LLAVE, Ricardo, Parentesco, poder y mentalidade. La nobleza castellana. Siglos XII-XV, Madrid, CSIC, 1990
-DUBY, Georges, A Sociedade Cavaleiresca, Lisboa, Teorema, 1989~
- The Historiography of Medieval Portugal c. 1950-2010, dir. de José MATTOSO, Lisboa, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, 2011
-KRUS, Luís, A Concepção Nobiliárquica do Espaço Ibérico (1280-1380), Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – JNICT, 1994
- MATTOSO, José, Identificação de um País. Ensaio sobre as Origens de Portugal. 1096-1325, vol. I – Oposição, vol. 2 – Composição, in Obras Completas, vols. 2 e 3, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2001

Teaching method

50% of theoretical classes and 50% of practical classes (analysis of historiographical texts and historical sources).

Evaluation method

Assessment methods - Essay (about 20 pages) on a subject of the seminary and its oral presentation in classroom(100%)

Subject matter

SUBJECT: Medieval Nobility - Kinship, identity and power
1.History of the family and history of the nobility
2.Kinship and social identity
3.Family and household in the medieval nobility
4.The Portuguese medieval nobility