Questioning the Medieval Studies: Problems and Theories
Objectives
The main goal of this Seminar is to familiarize the student with the more modern and questioning problems which affect medieval Studies, today.
1. to familiarize the students with the problems and questions which define the very nature of the medieval studies in current day research.
2. to enhance their ability to assess critically the information from classical and most recent paradigms and questions which characterize the medieval studies, and to develop a critical approach to them;
3. to promote the capacity of using the knowledge about the past and recent problematics in the students own work in progress
4. to develop the understanding of the students of their own standing in the big picture of present day Medieval Studies and the questions which their work poses to present day society.
5. to capacitate the students with the understanding of the need to apply and practice principles of interdisciplinary research in Medieval Studies and to combine those with other fields of research.
General characterization
Code
73227102
Credits
18.0
Responsible teacher
Available soon
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 504
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- BOUTET, Dominique. Formes littéraires et conscience historique. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France. 1999.
- CARRUTHERS, Mary. The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 2013.
- FERREIRA, Manuel Pedro (ed.), Musical Exchanges 1110-1650. Iberian Connections. Kassel, Edition Reichenberger, 2016.
- L'ENGLE, Susan, GIBBS Robert, Illuminating the Law. Illuminated Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections. London
- – Turnhout: Harvey & Miller Publishers, 2002 (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, HMSAH 33)
- DE HAMEL, Christopher A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Oxford: Phaidon, 1986.
- ROSA, Lurdes, Fazer e Pensar a História Medieval Hoje: guia de estudo, investigação e docência, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2017.
- ROSENWEIN, Barbara, CRISTIANI, Riccardo, What is the history of emotions, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2018.
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 (20 % of final mark).
2. Individual research resulting in the production of 2 essays (20% of final mark).
3. Presentation and public defense of the Final Thesis Project ( 60% of final mark). To be argued in a public oral final examination, by a pannel including external examinors, or by videoconference,. The student will not be able to register the thesis without approval in this element.
The evaluation of the doctoral students will be made by continuous assessment, the final mark resulting from the combination of the three elements of assessment.
Evaluation method
Continuous Assessment - Presentation and public defense of the Final Thesis Project (60%), Collaborative learning through the participation in asynchronous discussions and joint activities on the issues being studied(20%), Individual research resulting in the production of 2 essays(20%)
Subject matter
I - State of the Art
1. Literature
The text space in medieval literature
The poetic text in motion
2. Art history
The illustration and decoration of the illuminated manuscript in the history of medieval art
Medieval illumination in the context of the circulation of models, artists and sponsors.
3. History
The various turns and global studies
4. Music Studies
Medieval music in an interdisciplinary context
II - Problems
1 Literature
Verbal creation in the Middle Ages - from fable to fiction; a) the place of the wonderful; b) the relationship between history and fiction
2. Hist. art
The illustration of medieval illuminated legal manuscripts: a) the relationship between text and image b) iconographies and style; the passages and circulation of
the models c) the analysis of illuminations and manuscripts in relation to the historical economic and social context
3. History
Emotions: construction of an object of multidisciplinary study
4. Music studies
Musical dimension ofthe Galician-Portuguese lyrics