História da Vida Privada na Idade Média (not translated)
Code
722051265
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1.Understand the problems connected with the study of a topic as particular as Private Life from the 12th to the 15th
century
2.Deepen knowledge on specific aspects of private life in Portugal, within the same period.
3.Acknowledge the relationship between the documentary primary evidence and the production of a critical narrative on the
issues being studied
4.Production of small critical essays the subjects under analysis
Skills:
1.Mastery of the subjects studied in the course
2.Capacity of interpreting, analyzing and synthesizing data, questions and problems connected with the study of all topics.
3.Dominion of the research tools, techniques for bibliographical and documentary search, online and traditional
4.Capacity to exert a critical judgement on published documentation and secondary bibliography
5.Development of the capacity to Critically interrogate and reelaboraton on problems connectesd with the challenges of
assessing primary evidence and wider questions
Prerequisites
none
Subject matter
1. Private Life : an outlook on the concept
a) Definition of concepts, problematic and critical preconceptions.
b) Indivídual, Community and Private Life: problems and questions
c) Practices, Rites and behaviours in Private LIfe and Daily Life
2.Private Life: some approaches from the insiders point of view
Topics:
a) Birth and Childhood (narratives and Legal Texts)
b) Health and Hygiene: body and interdictions
c) Marriage and Concubines
d) Life in towns work and sociability
e) Living and sinning- the rules of society.
f) Death the more and less private part of life
Bibliography
-ARIÈS, Philippe. Sobre a História da Morte no Ocidente desde a Idade Média. Lisboa: Teorema, 1989
- COELHO, Maria Helena da Cruz, Festa e Sociabilidade na Idade Média Portuguesa, Coimbra, Inatel, 1994 (extractos)
-GUREVITCH, Aaron, As Categorias da cultura Medieval, Lisboa: Caminho, 1989
-História da Vida Privada em Portugal, dir. de José Mattoso, 1-A Idade Média, coord. de Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa,
Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2010
-História da Vida Privada, (dir. Philippe Ariés e Georges Duby, vol. 2), Porto, Afrontamento, 1989
LE GOFF, Jacques, LE TRUON, Nicholas, Uma História do Corpo na Idade Média, Lisboa, Teorema, 2005
-MARQUES, A. H. de Oliveira Marques, A Sociedade Medieval Portuguesa. Aspectos da Vida Quotidiana, 4.ª ed., Lisboa,
Livraria Sá da Costa Editora, 1981
- VIGARELLO, Histoire des pratiques de Santé. Le sain et le malsain depuis le Moyen Âge (3ª ed.), Paris, Ed. du Seuil, 1999
Teaching method
Theoretical lectures on the main topics, are complemented by practical classes working with published sources.
During the academic semester the students will produce 3 reports or small critical essays of up to 3 or 4 pp. , to participate
in the systematization of documentary evidence and in 3 discussions in the classroom.
The final work for the course will be a critical essay of up to 10 pp, to be debated in a general session.
Evaluation method
Participation of students in the above mentioned tasks will be valued at 40 % of the final mark and the final essay will be
worth 60% of the final mark.