New Perspectives in Medieval History II

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Students, as part of an ongoing assessment, discuss the paths already traveled and those still to travel, of the thematic proposals: in oral presentations, notes on works read and preparation of papers and research syntheses.

Learning Outcomes

Students should be able to understand the state of the art of thematic proposals, master the most advanced methodologies and conceptualizations and research, to understand in person or by computer, the most appropriate sources in libraries and archives, in order to develop their historical work synthesis and research.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The professors in the area of Medieval History have broad production and dissertation thesis advisement experience in the fields of History of Politics and Powers, Economic and Social History, History of Institutions, and Religious and Cultural History. They also have, in historiographical terms, weighed paths already trodden and those still to trod in various topics, having gained  valuable knowledge and being open to new paths of research, in accordance with current conceptualizations and methodologies and in conjunction with the challenges that the 2020 agenda has given to humanities aimed at boosting innovative and sustainable "societal" changes:

 1. Social dynamics: inclusion and exclusion

 2. Religious institutions and religion

 3. Writing, culture and memory.

Head Lecturer(s)

Saúl António Gomes Coelho da Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 20.0%
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Goody, Jack (1990). La logica de la Escritura y la organización de la sociedad. Madrid: Alianza editora

História Religiosa de Portugal, 3 vols. (2000). Carlos Moreira Azevedo (ed.). Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores

História da Vida Privada em Portugal, (2010). José Mattoso (dir.), I, A Idade Média, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa (coord.). Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores

 Historiography (The) of Medieval Portugal c. 1950-2010 (2011). José Mattoso (dir.), Maria de Lurdes Rosa, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa, Maria João Branco /eds.). Lisboa: IEM

Marques, Maria Alegria Fernandes (2013). O saber e os saberes na legislação sinodal portuguesa da Idade Média, in História Revista, 18 (1), p. 91-120. www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/historia

Santos, Maria José Azevedo (2005). O valor da escrita em tempos de Inês de Castro. Montemor-o-Velho: CMM.