Territories, cities and landscapes
Objectives
a) Acquire an awareness that the social organisation of space, territory and landscape in the Middle Ages resulted from the symbiosis between complex cultural inheritances received from Antiquity and innovative aspects resulting from the affirmation of a specific society and a medieval Christian mentality.
b) Acquire theoretical knowledge about the different aspects of the social organisation of space.
c) Obtain a vision of the social organisation of space, territory and landscape that is attentive to geochronological variations and the articulation between structures and conjunctures;
d) Acquire up-to-date knowledge of the different aspects of the social organisation of space, territory and landscape in medieval Portugal.
e) Acquire contact with medieval sources appropriate to the study of the proposed themes
f) Demonstrate the ability to plan and present in written form, in accordance with the methods of the discipline, a contribution to historiographical knowledge based on research
General characterization
Code
02117393
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Gonçalo Miguel Correia Melo da Silva
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
- Williamson, Tom, Shaping Medieval landscapes. Settlement, society, environment, Bollington, Windgather Press, 2003.
- Andrade, Amélia Aguiar, A construção medieval do território, Lisboa, Horizonte, 2001
- The spatial turn, interdisciplinary perspectives, ed.Barney Warf and Santa Arias, Routledge, 2009..
- Médiéviste (Le) devant ses sources. Questions et méthodes, dir. C Carozzi e H. Taviani-Carozzi, Aix-en-Provence, Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2004.
- Les territoires du médiéviste, coord. Benoît Cursente e Mireille Mosnier, Rennes, PUR, 2005.
- Lefebvre, Henri, La production de l’espace, Paris, Anthropos, 2000.
- Boone, Marc; Howell,Martha C., The Power of space in late medieval and early modern Europe. The cities of Italy, Northern France and the Low Countries, Brussels, 2013.
- Boucheron, Patrick;Offenstadt, Nicolas, L’espace public au Moyen Age. Débats autor de Jurgen Habermas, Paris, PUF, 2011.
Teaching method
Lectures of the theoretical contents.
Supervised commentary of bibliography and data.
supervised oral commentary of various types of documents on class.
Tutorials.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - Contents of lectures: elaboration of an individual written comments on a historical source (20%), Contents of practical classes: oral review of materials such as data, maps, images etc(20%), Individual written work based on the use of medieval texts (60%)
Subject matter
Introduction: Problems and methodologies. The contribution of other social and human sciences. The diversity of sources. The Portuguese case. Some operative concepts: territory, city, landscape.
1. Space in the Middle Ages: variations and variability. Variation in natural factors. Anthropisation: dynamics of occupation and exploitation of natural resources. Marking out space: delimitations. Uses and representations.
2. The construction of medieval landscapes: processes, times and experiences. Rural landscapes. Urban landscapes. The experience of landscapes. Order and disorder.
3. Medieval territories: continuities and ruptures. Frontiers. Political territories. Administrative territories.