Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

História de Portugal Medieval (not translated)

Code

711051125

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

História

Credits

6

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

I. Sources and historiography
II. The political and administrative frameworks (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries)
- The development of a Kingdom
- The Christian Reconquest
- The development of the regnum
- The bureaucratic increasing complexity
III. Territorial frameworks (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries)
- Administrative subdivisions
- Dominations forms and the organization of the territory
- The marks in the territory
IV. Social, economical and material frameworks during the Reconquest (Twelfh to Thirteenth Centuries)
- The social framework
- The economic framework
- The material framework
V. Social, economical and material frameworks in the late medieval period (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries)
- The social framework
- The economic framework
- The material framework
VI. The cultural and religious framework (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries)
- The importance of the religious phenomenon and its materiality
- The institutionalization of the education
- The culture of the nobility

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%).

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