ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History
Areas: Medieval History
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
O-1 Provide a rational and critical knowledge of the past of the humanity for comprising the present.
O -2 Provide a precise knowledge of the events and of the processes of change and of continuity in a diachronic perspective.
O-3 Obtainment of a basic knowledge of the main methods, techniques and instruments of analysis of the historian.
Learning through LECTURES and personal work begins with the presentation of a long period of 1200 years (INTRODUCTION TO THE MIDDLE AGES) fundamental to understanding the general diachronic structure of the past (Objective 1).
Two time blocks are discussed below, in which historical time follows different rhythms. By emphasizing the relationship with spatial coordinates, the student can acquire awareness of spatio-temporal coordinates and an accurate knowledge of the events and processes of change and continuity from a diachronic perspective (Objective 2).
Both lectures and related personal work will help the student to develop two general competences: to know and analyze the diachronic structure of history (CG-1) and to use, order and interpret historical sources (CG2).
The first section of LATE ANTIQUITY and EARLY Middle Age (4th-8th centuries) develops in five chapters:
1.- The late imperial inheritance in the Mediterranean world: Christianity, the Germanic villages and the end of the ancient world
2.- Economy and society in the first medieval centuries
3.- The barbaric realms and his political structures
4.- The roman Church as a factor of unity in the West
5.- Culture in the barbaric West
The second section, devoted to the High Middle Age (8th-10th centuries) is divided in six chapters:
6.- The Europe of Charlemagne
7.- The second invasions and the Carolingian political crisis
8.- Western Europe in the 8th-10th centuries. Economy and society
9.- Ecclesiastical consolidation and religious life in the High Middle Age
10.- Carolingian and Otonian Renaissance
11.- The extension and political stabilisation of the European space
Basic Bibliography:
ÁLVAREZ PALENZUELA, V. Á. (coord.), Historia Universal de la Edad Media, Barcelona, Ariel, 2013 (1ª ed. 2002).
CLARAMUNT, S., PORTELA, E., GONZÁLEZ, M. y MITRE, E., Historia de la Edad Media, Barcelona, Ariel, 1992 (1ª ed.), 1995 (2ª ed.), 2006 (7ª reimp. de 2ª ed.), 2008.
COLLINS, R., La Europa de la Alta Edad Media: 300-1000, Akal, Madrid, 2000 (1ª ed. 1991).
GARCÍA DE CORTÁZAR, J. A., SESMA MUÑOZ, J. A., Manual de Historia Medieval, Madrid, Alianza, 2008 (revisión de Historia de la Edad Media. Una síntesis interpretativa, Madrid, 1997).
KAPLAN, M. (dir.), Edad Media. Siglos IV-X, Granada, Universidad de Granada, 2004.
LADERO QUESADA, M.A., Historia Universal. Edad Media, Barcelona, 1992 (2ª ed.).
LE GOFF, J., La civilización del occidente medieval, Barcelona, 1999.
MACKAY, A., DITCHBURN, D. (eds.), Atlas de Europa Medieval, Madrid, 1999.
McKITTERICK, R., La Alta Edad Media, Barcelona, Crítica, 2001.
MITRE FERNÁNDEZ, E., Textos y documentos de época medieval, Barcelona, 1998.
MITRE, E., GARCÍA MORENO, L. A., LADERO, M. A., GONZÁLEZ, M., SARASA, E. y BELTRÁN, F., Manual de Historia Medieval Universal. 3. Alta Edad Media, Madrid, Historia 16, 1994.
MITRE, E., La primera Europa: Romanos, cristianos y germanos 400-1000, Madrid, 2000.
PICARD, C. y ZIMMERMANN, M., Edad Media: Siglos IV-X, Granada, 2004.
The New Cambridge Medieval History, vols. 1, 2 e 3, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995-2005.
VERGER, J., La Alta Edad Media, Madrid, Sarpe, 1986.
WALLACE-HADRILL, J. M., The Barbarian West, 400-1000, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 2000.
WICKHAM, C., Una historia nueva de la Alta Edad Media: Europa y el mundo mediterráneo (400-800 d.C.), Barcelona, Crítica, 2008.
Complemetary bibliography:
BONNASSIE, P., Del esclavismo al feudalismo en la Europa Occidental, Barcelona, 1993.
BOUGARD, F. (dir.), Le Christianisme en Occident du début du VIIe au milieu du XIe siècle, Paris, 1997.
BROWN, P., El mundo en la Antigüedad tardía, Madrid, 1989.
COUPLAND, S., “The Carolingian army and the struggle against the Vikings”, Viator, 35 (2004), 49-79.
FLEMING, R., Britain after Rome. The Fall and Rise, 400-1070, London, 2011.
FREEDMAN, P., “Siervos, campesinos y cambio social”, en Señores, siervos, vasallos en la Alta Edad Media, Pamplona, 2002, 127-146.
GARCÍA MORENO, L., “Los bárbaros y los orígenes de las naciones europeas”, Cuadernos de Historia de España, 80 (2006), 7-23.
GOFFART, W., Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584. The techniques of accommodation, Princeton, 1980.
HENNING, J., “Slavery or freedom? The causes of early medieval Europe’s economic advancement”, EME, 12:3 (2003), 269-277.
HERRIN, J., The formation of Christendom, Princeton, 1987.
ISLA, A., La Europa de los carolingios, Madrid, 1993.
MIDDLETON, N., “Early medieval port customs, tolls and controls on foreign trade”, EME, 13:4 (2005), 313-358.
Nascita dell’Europa ed Europa carolingia: un equazione da verificare, Spoleto, 1981.
RICHÉ, P., Écoles et enseignement dans le haut Moyen Âge. Fin du Ve siècle – debut du XIe siècle, 2ª ed., París, 1989.
RICHÉ, P., Les Carolingiens. Une famille qui fit l’Europe, París, 1983.
WICKHAM, C., “Space and society in early medieval peasant conflicts”, en Uomo e spazio nell’Alto Medioevo, Spoleto, 2003, 551-587.
Generals:
1. Know and analyse the diachronic structure of the history.
2. Use, order and interpret the historical sources.
3. Know and have skill to use the instruments of compilation of information, such like bibliographic catalogues, inventories of archives, and electronic references.
Specific:
1. Know, analyse and transmit the general history and the own history of the territory.
2. Know, analyse and interpret in detail one or more specific periods of the past of the humanity.
7. Comprise, interpret and elaborate historiopgraphic texts or original documents in the own language.
Transversal:
1. Apply analytical thought, critic, logical and creative, showing dowries of innovation.
2. Work of autonomous form with responsibility and initiative.
4. Communicate information and ideas of clear and effective way in public.
In order to facilitate and rationalize the teaching of the subject, the following techniques will be used:
-Lectures in which the theoretical contents will be explained. It is a face-to-face activity in the classroom.
-Interactive classes: they will be dedicated to work sessions in small groups. The sessions will be dedicated to the discussion of readings and texts previously selected by the teacher and carried out by the students, as well as a small final project. The content of the interactive classes will aim to deepen the knowledge of topics of special relevance for the understanding of the evolution of different aspects of the High Middle Ages.
- A course will be opened on the "Campus Virtual" in which there will be various support materials and a schedule of activities.
-Personalised supervision to monitor the scheduled activities.
Continuous assessment combined with a final test is foreseen as an evaluation criterion. This test will be held on the date set by the Facultade de Xeografía e Historia for that purpose.
Calculation of the final grade:
The written test (both in the ordinary and in the extraordinary call) will account for 40% of the final grade. The student may substitute the written test for the tasks or tests of the continuous assessment of the theoretical part (lectures).
The interactive lessons will account for 60% of the final grade. In scenario 1, participation in the classroom will represent 20% of the final grade and 40% the final work.
The final grade for the subject will result from the proportionate integration of the indicated elements: exam (40%) and interactive part or tasks (60%).
Given that the assessment is continuous and the attendance to the classes is compulsory, a repeated absence from them, greater than 20%, (both in interactive and in lectures) would imply the impossibility of the student being evaluated.
The qualification of the second chance call will be obtained from a written test of all the contents of the subject. Regarding the part corresponding to the interactive classes, the student will have to deliver all the assignments and activities developed in the classes. Students who have delivered all the practical assignments throughout the course have no obligation of resubmitting said works, having to pass, only, the examination of the corresponding call. However, they may, if they wish, rework the work to improve the grade.
For people with an exemption, it will only be computed the work (50%) and the exam (50%) and they will have the obligation to attend a personalized tutoring at least once every month, by prior appointment with the teacher.
- In the second and third scenarios, the tests, the tasks and the final test will be telematic.
Each hour of theoretical teaching (lectures) must be accompanied by a complementary work of the student of about two hours with the help of the bibliographic material, in order to carefully read the theoretical contents and assimilate them.
At the same time, for each of the hours of interactive teaching, the student must invest at least four hours of personal work.
Taking into account the teaching load of the subject and the aforementioned predictions, it is considered that the student's personal work time should be around 150 hours.
Although no specific prior training is necessary to enter the degree in History in general and enrollment in this subject in particular, it is recommended that the student's training be of a humanistic profile.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the review of grades" will apply.
Fernando Maria Lorenzo Lopez Alsina
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Medieval History
- Phone
- 881812623
- fernando.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Xose Manoel Sanchez Sanchez
- Department
- History
- Area
- Medieval History
- xosemanuel.sanchez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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