Medieval History
Code: 106847 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2504611 Archaeology | FB | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jesus Brufal Sucarrat
- Email:
- jesus.brufal@uab.cat
Teachers
- Nil Rider Enrique
- Raul Muņoz Cespedes
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
No prerequisites.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The course offers a general overview of the various stages and the main processes and events that took place during the Middle Ages, between the 5th and 15th centuries, through various thematic approaches of historical science (social, political, economic, ideological, identity, cultural) and through theoretical and practical activities.
The main objective of the subject is to provide students with the appropriate resources to acquire the basic knowledge about the historical framework of the Middle Ages that will serve as a basis for learning in subsequent subjects of the degree in Archaeology
Learning Outcomes
- CM02 (Competence) Assess the potential of certain findings for preservation and adaptation to a wider audience.
- CM03 (Competence) Preserve historical archaeological materials to provide a fair, ethical vision of societies in the past.
- CM04 (Competence) Analyse the historical contributions of each gender from archaeology, appreciating the bias of historical texts.
- KM05 (Knowledge) Match materials with their corresponding period to recognise their chronology and their function within an archaeological context.
- KM06 (Knowledge) Analyse historical texts to critically interpret material archaeological remains.
- SM04 (Skill) Apply historical knowledge to explain the archaeological remains at a certain historical site.
- SM05 (Skill) Analyse materials from different periods to associate them with specific activities of a historical moment.
- SM06 (Skill) Describe in written or oral form the result of the interpretation of certain materials in a specific archaeological structure.
Content
Theme 1. What is the Middle Ages and how do we perceive them today?
Theme 2. The Germanic migrations and the end of the Western Roman Empire.
Theme 3. The Eastern Roman Empire and Sassanid Persia.
Theme 4. The spread of Christianity and the first heresies.
Theme 5. The birth, expansion and consolidation of Islam.
Theme 6. The birth of Hellenised Byzantium.
Theme 7. The rise and fall of the Carolingian Empire.
Theme 8. The Europe of the year 1000.
Theme 9. Society and Production in Western Europe (7th-12th centuries).
Theme 10. The Church in the 8th-12th centuries.
Theme 11. Europe in the 13th century.
Theme 12. The European economy in the Late Middle Ages.
Theme 13. Society in the Late Middle Ages.
Theme 14. The Church, spirituality and culture in the West (13th-14th centuries).
Theme 15. European kingdoms in the 15th century.
Theme 16. Thought and culture at the end of the Middle Ages.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Seminars and practical sessions led by the lecturer | 10 | 0.4 | CM02, CM03, CM04, KM05, KM06, SM04, SM05, SM06, CM02 |
| Theoretical classes led by the teacher | 35 | 1.4 | CM04, KM05, KM06, SM04, SM05, SM06, CM04 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Comprehensible reading of texts and interpretation of maps, graphs, tables and archaeological documents. | 20 | 0.8 | KM06, SM04, SM05, KM06 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Individual Study | 25 | 1 | SM04, SM05, SM06, SM04 |
| Reviews, papers and analytical commentaries | 30 | 1.2 | CM04, KM06, SM05, SM06, CM04 |
-Theoretical classes led by the teacher.
-Seminars and practical sessions led by the teacher.
-Practical sessions linked to organised outings.
-Comprehensive reading of texts and interpretation of maps, graphs, tables and archaeological documents.
-Writing reviews, papers and analytical commentaries.
-Individual study.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam 1 | 30% | 8 | 0.32 | CM02, CM04, KM06, SM05, SM06 |
| Exam 2 | 30% | 8 | 0.32 | CM02, CM04, KM06, SM05, SM06 |
| Oral Work | 10% | 4 | 0.16 | SM04, SM05, SM06 |
| Written Work | 30% | 10 | 0.4 | CM03, KM05 |
The continuous assessment is made up of the following tests and percentages:
- Two reflective written exams (30% of the mark each).
- A written paper on the location, identification and analysis of an interpretative bias of the Middle Ages (30% of the mark).
- A Reflective oral exercise on what you have learned about Medieval History (10% of the mark).
Relevant information:
- Assessment activities submitted within the deadlines set by the subject teacher will be made up; under no circumstances may an exercise be submitted for the first time during the make-up period. The recovery will consist of a written test that will examine the student on the entire theoretical programme of the subject. The grade for the make-up exam will be a pass.
- A student will be considered "not evaluable" if he/she has not presented 50% of the evaluable evidences of the subject.
- In the event that a student commits any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation exercise, this will be graded with a 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be initiated. In the case of several irregularities in other exercises, the final grade will be 0.
- The student will have the right to review the results of the tests taken. The teacher will establish the mechanisms for this in due course.
- In the event that the tests cannot be taken in person, their format will be adapted (maintaining the weighting) to the possibilities offered by the virtual tools of the UAB. Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through wiki forums and/or exercise discussions through Moodle, Teams, etc. The teaching staff will ensure that students have access to these tools or will be offered alternative means.
The single assessment is made up of the following tests and percentages:
- An oral exam (30% of the mark).
- A review of a free text to choose from (35% of the mark).
- The completion of a project (35% of the mark).
Relevant information:
- Students who have taken the three assessments but have not passed them will have the right to a make-up exam consisting of a single, theoretical test.
- A student who has not submitted the assessments on the date indicated by the teacher will be considered as a "non-assessable" student.
- The same recovery system will be applied as in the continuous assessment.
- In the event that a student commits any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade of an assessment exercise, this will be marked with a 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be initiated. In the case of several irregularities in other exercises, the final grade will be 0.
- The student will have the right to review the results of the tests taken. The teacher will establish the mechanisms for this in due course.
- In the event that the tests cannot be taken in person, their format will be adapted (maintaining the weighting) to the possibilities offered by the virtual tools of the UAB. Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through wiki forums and/or discussions of exercises through Moodle, Teams, etc. The teaching staff will ensure that the student can access these tools or will be offered alternative means.
Bibliography
Reference Manuals
García de Cortázar, J. A.; Sesma, J. A.: Historia de la Edad Media, una síntesis
interpretativa. Alianza Universidad, 1997.
Salrach, J.M., Entre Roma i el Renaixement. Història i textos de l’Occident Medieval, Eumo, Vic, 2002.
Contamine, Bompaire i altres. La economía medieval. Akal. Madrid, 2000.
Baschet, J. La civilisation féodale. De l’an mil à la colonisation de l’Amérique. Aubier,Ed. Flammarion, París 2004. Traducció: La civilización feudal: Europa del año mil a la colonización de América. Fondo de Cultura Econòmica, USA 2010.
Wickham, Chris. Europa en la Edad Media. Una nueva interpretación. Ed. Crítica, Barcelona, 2017.
Donado Vara, J. - Echevarría Arsuaga, A. Historia Medieval I (siglos V-XII), UNED, Madrid, 2014.
Donado Vara, J. - Echevarría Arsuaga, A. - Baquero Goñi, C. Historia Medieval II (siglos XIII-XV), UNED, Madrid, 2014.
General works (by periods and themes)
Devroey, J-P. Économie rurale et société dans l’europe franque (VIe-Ixe siècles). Ed. Belin, Paris, 2003.
Faci, J. Introducción al mundo Bizantino. Ed. Síntesis, 1996.Bresh, H.; Guichard, P.; Mantran R.: Europa y el Islam en la Edad Media. Ed. Crítica,
Barcelona, 2001.
Wickham, C: Una historia nueva de la alta Edad Media. Crítica, Barcelona, 2009.
Toubert; P: Europa en su primer crecimiento. De Carlomagano al año mil.
Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2006.
Bartlett, R.:La formación de Europa. Conquista, civilización y cambio cultural,
950-1350. Publicacions Universitat de València, 2003.
T. Bisson: La crisis del siglo XII. Ed. Crítica, 2010.
G. Bois: La gran depresión medieval: siglos XIV-XV: el precedente de una crisis
sistémica. Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2001.
P. Contamine: La guerra en la Edad Media. Ed. Labor, 1984
Instrumental Bibliography
Kinder-Hilgemann. Atlas Histórico Mundial, ed. Istmo, 2 vols.
Bonnassie, P. Vocabulario básico de la historia medieval, ed. Crítica.
Loyn, H. R. Diccionario Akal de Historia Medieval. Akal, Madrid, 1998.
MacKay-Ditchburn (eds). Atlas de Europa Medieval, ed. Cátedra.
Salrach, J.M., Entre Roma i el Renaixement. Història i textos de l’Occident Medieval, Eumo, Vic, 2002.
F. Maíllo: Vocabulario básico de la historia del Islam. Ed. Akal, 1987.
Software
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Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |