Questions on the history of the Middle Ages
- UE Code LHISB302
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Dienstregeling
30Kwartaal 2
- ECTS-studiepunten 3
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Taal
French
- Professor Renard Etienne
- Develop critical thinking and scientific reasoning skills
- Develop specialised knowledge in areas of history and understand the issues at stake in the discipline
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.
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.
Provisional table:
I. The end of the ancient economy
II. From slavery to serfdom
III. Changes in kinship
IV. The rise of the West
Oral examination
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).