From Latin Culture to Portuguese Culture

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical accompanied by lectures and source analysis or questions related to the topics under study.  Active student participation in the discussions and analysis of texts in class and review of documents will be encouraged, as well as the completion and presentation of papers.

Learning Outcomes

The teaching of this seminar should make the cultural specificity of the medieval world and its diversity noticeable, seen from the particular situation of the crop produced in Portugal.  The presence of a written Latin culture in connection with the clerical environment, and the slow emergence of a culture in Galician-Portuguese that discovers writing from the late eleventh century is highlighted.

Students, through class attendance, should have a clear understanding of the different existing cultural resources and their main cultural production as well as the evolution of each over the study period.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

General Introduction

The Middle Ages: summary of three cultural legacies

1. The clergy and latin culture

1.1 Schools and production centers

1.2 Usages of Latin: legal diplomas and literary documents

1.3 Principal cultural production areas of the clergy

1.4 The clergy and Galic-Portuguese

2. Lay Culture

2.1 The genesis of Galic-Portuguese

2.2 Noble Culture

2.3 The Avis Dynasty and the cultural affirmation of the regent court

2.4 Echoes of popular culture.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria do Rosário Barbosa Morujão

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The assessment is in accordance with the respective policies and allows the possibility of students being assessed three ways, one of which should be a written test.: 100.0%

Bibliography

- BARBIERI, Roberto (ed.), Atlas histórico de la cultura medieval, Madrid, 2007.

- LANCIANI, Giulia & TAVANI, Giuseppe (dir.), Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa. Lisboa: Caminho, 1993.

- MATTOSO, José, O essencial sobre a cultura medieval portuguesa, Lisboa, IN-CM, 1986 (também em Obras Completas, vol. 6, Lisboa, Circulo de Leitores, 2001)

- NASCIMENTO, A. Augusto, “Literatura religiosa I. Época medieval”, in Dicionário de História religiosa de Portugal, dir. C. M. Azevedo, Lisboa: Circulo de Leitores, 2001

- PAUL, Jacques, Historia Intelectual del Occidente Medieval, Madrid, Cátedra, 2003

- SANTIAGO-OTERO, Horacio, La Cultura en la Edad Media Hispana, Lisboa, Colibri, 1996

- SARAIVA, José António, História da Cultura em Portugal, vol. 1, Lisboa, Jornal do Foro, 1950 (reed. em A Cultura em Portugal. Teoria e história, 2 vols., Lisboa, Bertrand, 1982 e 1984, e O Crepúsculo da Idade Média em Portugal, Lisboa, Gradiva, 1988).