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Questioning the Medieval Studies: Problems and Theories
Courses PhD in Medieval Studies
Cod: 33020
Department: DH
ECTS: 18
Scientific area: Medieval Studies
Total working hours: 468
Total contact time: 50

The main aim of this seminar is to familiarize doctoral students with and study the issues and debates affecting Medieval Studies in today's world.

1. To familiarize students with the most current issues and debates affecting Medieval Studies

2. Provide students with the ability to critically evaluate classical paradigms and the most recent issues affecting production in Medieval Studies

3. Promote the ability to integrate the major issues of the period under study into the individual work to be carried out throughout the doctorate

4. To make students aware of the theoretical position of the work they will be developing and its place within the framework of issues affecting Medieval Studies.

5. To enable students to recognize the plasticity of Medieval Studies and the inherent necessary interdisciplinarity with other Social and Human Sciences.

 

Interdisciplinary work
Questioning Medieval Studies

1.to familiarize the students with the problems and questions which define the very nature of the medieval studies in current day research.
2.to enhance their ability to assess critically the information from classical and most recent paradigms and questions that characterize the medieval studies, and to develop a critical approach to them;
3.to promote the capacity of using the knowledge about the past and recent problematics in the students' own work in progress
4.to develop the understanding of the students of their own standing in the big picture of present-day Medieval Studies and the questions that their work poses to present-day society.

 5.to capacitate the students with the understanding of the need to apply and practice principles of interdisciplinary research in Medieval Studies and to combine those with other fields of research.

Part I - State of the Art

1 Literature

The text space in medieval literature

The poetic text in motion

2. Art History

The illustration and decoration of the illuminated manuscript in the history of medieval art

Medieval illumination in the context of the circulation of models, artists and sponsors.

3 History

The various turns and global studies

 4 Music Studies

Medieval music in an interdisciplinary context

 

Part II Problems

1 Literature

Verbal creation in the Middle Ages - a) the place of the wonderful; b) the relationship between history and fiction

2 Art History

The illustration of medieval illuminated legal manuscripts: a) the relationship between text and image b) iconographies and style; the passages and circulation of the models c) the analysis of illuminations and manuscripts in relation to the historical economic and social context

3 History

Emotions: construction of an object of multidisciplinary study

4 Music Studies

Musical dimension of the Galician-Portuguese lyrics

BOUTET, D. - Formes littéraires et conscience historique. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France. 1999.

CARRUTHERS, M. - The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013.

FERREIRA, M. P. - «O estudo da música medieval em Portugal no seu contexto interdisciplinar (1940-2010)», in Juciane Cavalheiro et al (org.), Alteridade consoante. Estudos sobre Música, Literatura e Iconografia, Manaus: FAPEAM / PPGLA / Valer, 2013, pp. 189-211.

L’ENGLE, S. GIBBS R. - Illuminating the Law. Illuminated Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections. London – Turnhout: Harvey & Miller Publishers, 2002

DE HAMEL, Ch. - A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Oxford: Phaidon, 1986.

ROSA, L. - Fazer e Pensar a História Medieval Hoje: guia de estudo, investigação e docência, Coimbra: Universidade, 2017

ROSENWEIN, B. ; CRISTIANI, R. - What is the history of emotions, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018.

The evaluation in this seminar includes continuous evaluation in the activities to be developed in the 4 themes, relating to 4 areas integrated into Multidisciplinary Studies, with a weight of 50% in the final grade; and the Thesis Project, developed with the supervisors and submitted for public presentation at the end of the first year, also weighing 50% in the final grade.