2023

Methods and Sources

Name: Methods and Sources
Code: HIS09914M
10 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/280 hours
Scientific Area: History

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: B-learning

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Present the main written sources and materials for the History of Medieval Islamic and Mediterranean.
Discuss the processes of source criticism. Methods of use of the information.
Provide the students with conceptual designs and accurate tool
Present the various historiographical debates over the Mediterranean and Medieval Islamic.
Ability to produce historical discourse.
Proof of funds for the heuristic and documentary codicológicos.
Hermeneutics of medieval Latin text, romance and Arabic.

Contents

One. Introduction to the methods and sources of Islamic and Medieval Mediterranean. Concept of Power. Typologies.
2nd. The conquest
3rd. Reading the territory
4th. The militarization of the territory and society.
5th. The conquest of territory
6th. The normative of space

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical. Analysis oriented group of written sources and materials.
The evaluation will be carried out through participation of students in and achievement by students of two works:
3rd. An individual work that will later be presented and discussed in class
4th. A literature survey of one of the following articles:
Haldon, John El-producción tributary mode: conceptus, y explicación range. Hispania. Madrid: CSIC. ISSN 0018-2141. Vol LVIII / 3, No. 200 (1998) p. 795-822.
MANZANO MORENO, Eduardo Relaciones sociales en-precapitalitas societies: one criticism of al fetus 'producción tributary mode'. Hispania. Madrid: CSIC. ISNN 0018-2141. LVIII / 3, 200 (1998) p. 881-913.
Acien ALMANSA, Manuel - About her role ideology el en la de las caracterización formaciones sociales. La formación Islamic social. Hispania. Madrid: CSIC. ISSN 0018-2141. LVIII / 3, num. 200 (1998) p. 915-968.