Mental and cultural categories in the Middle Ages
Objectives
a) Present and characterise the historiography on the subject. Definition of concepts: categories, culture, mentalities, Middle Ages.
b) Characterise the information available and the process of its constitution as archives.
c) Present methodologies for processing sources.
d) Accompany the construction of research surveys and their elaboration around selected themes, concretising the previous objectives.
e) Teaching how to present research results in a scientifically correct and clear manner, in terms of oral and written expression.
General characterization
Code
02116941
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Maria de Lurdes Pereira Rosa
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- AURELL, Jaume - El giro cultural. In ID. - La escritura de la memoria. De los positivismos a los postmodernismos. Valencia: PUV, 2005, pp. 177-198.
- Faire l’anthropologie historique du Moyen Âge, ed. E. Anheim et al. [em linha, 2010]: http://acrh.revues.org/1911
- HUNT, Lynn, The rise and fall of cultural theories. In ID. - Writing History in the global era. N. Iorque: W.W. Norton & Co, 2014, pp. 13-43.
- ROSA, Maria de Lurdes – Fazer e pensar a História medieval hoje. Guia de estudo, investigação e docência. Coimbra: IUC, 2017
- TINSLEY, David F. - Mentalities in medieval studies. In Albrecht CLASSEN (ed.) - Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms Methods Trends. Berlim/ Nova Iorque: De Gruyter, 2010, vol. 1, pp. 874-896.
Teaching method
- 50% theoretical lessons (oral presentation of the subject)
- 50% practical lessons: continuous assessment, with the accompanied completion of assessment elements 3 a) and 3b)
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - Completion of two assessment elements - a) essay analysing historiographical texts (5-10 pp., individual, 30%); research essay on historical sources (15 pp., individual, 70%). The essays must be presented in class, in collective and individual sessions, during their preparation, according to a timetable to be defined in the first sessions. (100%)
Subject matter
1. Mental and cultural categories: historiographical and conceptual framework.
2. Materials for the history of culture and mentalities
2.1 Information-producing institutions in the medieval centuries
2.2 Processes of constituting information in archives
2.3 Processes of description and access to archives and editions
3. Theories and methodologies for processing sources
3.1 Form, content and content of form
3.2. Historical anthropology: rejecting anachronism
3.2 Analytical cases: wills, genealogies, chronicles, ecclesiastical texts, images
4. Constructing enquiries and working with students on the basis of selected themes and sources.