2024
Frontier Cultures
Name: Frontier Cultures
Code: HIS10578M
10 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/280 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
OBJECTIVES:
- To problematise the historical context of the frontier as an identity producer in itself.
- To discuss Hispania's historical position as a turntable of different civilizational contexts within the inner
Mediterranean.
- To examine the contexts of cultural production in a particular regional medieval area
- To identify characteristic traits in a system of mental representations/categories in medieval Hispania
COMPETENCES
- Capacity to produce historical discourse.
- Ability for the heuristics of collections of documentation and codices.
- Hermeneutics of the medieval texts: Latin, Romance, and Arab.
- To problematise the historical context of the frontier as an identity producer in itself.
- To discuss Hispania's historical position as a turntable of different civilizational contexts within the inner
Mediterranean.
- To examine the contexts of cultural production in a particular regional medieval area
- To identify characteristic traits in a system of mental representations/categories in medieval Hispania
COMPETENCES
- Capacity to produce historical discourse.
- Ability for the heuristics of collections of documentation and codices.
- Hermeneutics of the medieval texts: Latin, Romance, and Arab.
Contents
We will question the processes of identity formation in medieval Hispania and al-Andaluz, understood as a
large turntable of two civilisational complexes: Christianitas and Dar al-Islam. In this view, we will privilege
observation of the contact regions where specific cultural solutions occur, such as Toledo or Coimbra.
Particular attention shall be paid to phenomena usually described as "minorities" understood here as spaces
for the observation of the crossing and most of all the formation of original identities, Moorish, Arabic, or
Jewish. Lastly, we will study the solutions that characterise these frontier identities, from onomastics through
family systems to the definition of domestic spaces, garden architecture, and irrigation.
large turntable of two civilisational complexes: Christianitas and Dar al-Islam. In this view, we will privilege
observation of the contact regions where specific cultural solutions occur, such as Toledo or Coimbra.
Particular attention shall be paid to phenomena usually described as "minorities" understood here as spaces
for the observation of the crossing and most of all the formation of original identities, Moorish, Arabic, or
Jewish. Lastly, we will study the solutions that characterise these frontier identities, from onomastics through
family systems to the definition of domestic spaces, garden architecture, and irrigation.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical and practical. Text commentary. Presentation of a reading report on a historiographic source or
text.
text.
