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)

Luís Miguel Malva de Jesus Rêpas

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Active participation in the seminar: 25.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

BARBIERI, R. (ed.)(2007). Atlas histórico de la cultura medieval. Madrid: San Pablo. FERNANDES, H. (coord.)(2013). A Universidade medieval em Lisboa: séculos XII-XVI Lisboa: Tinta-da-China. FERREIRA, M. R.(2010). Historiografia Medieval em Portugal: Velhos Textos, Novos Caminhos. In O Contexto Hispânico da Historiografia Portuguesa nos Séculos XIII e XIV. Coimbra: IUC, p. 7-18.LANCIANI, G.; TAVANI, G. (dir.) (1993) Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa. Lisboa: Caminho. MATTOSO, J. (dir.) (2011). – The historiography of medieval Portugal c. 1950-2010. Lisboa: IEM.
OLIVEIRA, A. R. (2011). O genealogista e as suas linhagens: D. Pedro, Conde de Barcelos. e-
Spania, 11| juin. PAUL, J.(2003). Historia Intelectual del Occidente Medieval. Madrid: Cátedra. SANTIAGO-OTERO, H. (1966). La Cultura en la Edad Media Hispana. Lisboa: Colibri. SARAIVA, A. M.; MORUJÃO, M. R. (coord.)(2014).O clero secular medieval e as suas catedrais: novas perspectivas e abordagens. Lisboa:CEHR-UCP.