Course 2024-2025

Questions on the history of the Middle Ages [LHISB302]

  • 3 credits
  • 30h
  • 2nd quarter
Language of instruction: French / Français

Learning outcomes

- Develop critical thinking and scientific reasoning skills

- Develop specialised knowledge in areas of history and understand the issues at stake in the discipline

Objectives

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

- characterise the social and economic structures and phenomena analysed in the course,

- explain their mechanisms and transformations from the Late Period to the end of the Middle Ages.

Content

The course looks at the socio-economic history of the medieval millennium through a more or less in-depth study of a number of major phenomena, such as the end of the Roman world-system and its impact on the 'material civilisation' of the early Western Middle Ages, the transformations of servitude and dependence (slavery, serfdom, etc.), kinship, the family and marriage from the Roman era to the feudal era, the agrarian, demographic and urban boom in the West from the 9th to the 12th century, and the development of the Western civilisation. ), kinship, the family and marriage from the Roman to the feudal period, the agrarian, demographic and urban development of the West from the 9th to the 12th century, crafts, banking and trade from the 12th to the 15th century. Not all of these topics are covered every year.

Table of contents

Provisional table:

I. The end of the ancient economy

II. From slavery to serfdom

III. Changes in kinship

IV. The rise of the West


Teaching methods

Lectures with commentary on written or iconographic documents.

Course materials: bibliography, slide shows (available on Webcampus).

Evaluations

Oral examination

Recommended readings

McCORMICK (M.), Origins of the European economy : communications and commerce, A.D. 300-900, Cambridge, 2001. WICKHAM (Ch.), Framing the Early Middle Ages : Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800, Oxford, 2005. DEVROEY (J.-P.), Économie rurale et société dans l'Europe franque (VIe-IXe siècles), t. I : Fondements matériels, échanges et lien social, Paris, 2003 (Belin Sup Histoire). TESTART (A.), L'esclave, la dette et le pouvoir. Études de sociologie comparative, Paris, 2001. BARRY (L.), La parenté, Paris, 2008 (Folio Essais, 498). CONTAMINE (Ph.) et al., L'économie médiévale, 3e éd., Paris, 2003 (Collection U. Histoire médiévale).

Language of instruction

French / Français

Location for course

NAMUR

Organizer

Faculté de philosophie et lettres
Rue de Bruxelles, 61
5000 NAMUR

Degree of Reference

Undergraduate Degree
BlockCredits
Bachelier en histoire33