History of Medieval Portugal
Code
711051125
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Amélia Aguiar de Andrade, Bernardo Vasconcelos Sousa
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Become aware of the wide range of written and unwritten sources mobilized to study the Portuguese Middle Ages and of the main trends of current research on the subject;
b) Develop an effective knowledge of the Portuguese medieval society through an understanding of their political, administrative, social, religious and cultural frameworks;
c) Grasp the outline of the process of affirmation and structure of medieval Portugal between the Twelfth and Fifteenth centuries;
d) Develop ability to analyze and criticize historical sources foreseeing their scientific use;
e) Develop the capacity of oral and written expression, mobilizing concepts and vocabulary belonging the medieval History.
Prerequisites
n.a
Subject matter
A.1096-1325
I. Sources and historiography
II. The political and administrative frameworks
- The development of a Kingdom
- The Christian Reconquest
- The development of the regnum
- The bureaucratic increasing complexity
III. Territorial frameworks
- Administrative subdivisions
- Dominations forms and the organization of the territory
- The marks in the territory
IV. Social, economical and material frameworks during the Reconquest
- The social framework
- The economic framework
- The material framework
B. 1325-c.1480
I. Population and Society
- Demographical distribution and evolution
-Towns and country
- The XIVth century crisis
II. Social-economic and political conjunctures
-Social crisis and reforms (c.1340-c.1380)
- Convergence of the crisies (c. 1380-1385)
III. The kimgdom \"re-foundation\" (1385-c. 1480)
-A viable kingdom?
- The beginning of the overseas expansion
Bibliography
- COELHO, Maria Helena da Cruz e Armando Luís de Carvalho HOMEM (coords.), Portugal em definição de Fronteiras (1096-1325). Do Condado portucalense à Crise do Século XIV, Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 1996 (Vol. IV da Nova História de Portugal, dir. de Joel SERRÃO Joel e A. H. de Oliveira MARQUES);
- MARQUES, A. H. de Oliveira, Portugal na Crise dos séculos XIV e XV, Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 1987 (Vol. IV da Nova História de Portugal, dir. de Joel SERRÃO Joel e A. H. de Oliveira MARQUES);
- MATTOSO, José, Identificação de um País. Oposição, vol 2 de Obras Completas de José Mattoso, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2001 e Identificação de um País. Composição, vol. 3 de Obras Completas de José Mattoso, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2001 (há ed. na Editorial Estampa);
- MATTOSO, José e SOUSA, Armindo de, A monarquia feudal, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1992 (Vol. II da História de Portugal, dir. de José Mattoso);
- MATTOSO, José (ed.), The historiography of medieval Portugal, c. 1950-2010, Lisboa, IEM, 2011.
Teaching method
60% of theoretical classes and 40% of practical classes.
Evaluation method
Commentary of a historiographical text (30%), a commentary of a historical source (20%), written examination (50%).