subject teaching guide

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SUBJECT TEACHING GUIDE
M1334
- Christian Europe in the Middle Ages: Church, Empire and Monarchy
From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Master's Degree: The Construction of Europe
between the Ancient and the Mediaeval Worlds
Academic year 2016-2017
1. IDENTIFYING DATA
Degree
Faculty
From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Master's Degree: The
Construction of Europe between the Ancient and the Mediaeval
Type and
Year
Optional. Year 1
Faculty of Humanities
Discipline
Optional Subjects of the Module
Ancient History and Mediaeval History
History of the Middle Ages
Course unit title
and code
M1334
- Christian Europe in the Middle Ages: Church, Empire and Monarchy
Number of ECTS
credits allocated
Web
3
Term
Language of
instruction
Spanish
Mode of delivery
Department
DPTO. CIENCIAS HISTORICAS
Name of lecturer
DOLORES MARIÑO VEIRAS
E-mail
dolores.marino@unican.es
Office
Edificio Interfacultativo. Planta: + 1. DESPACHO PROFESORES (124)
Others
Face-to-face
Other lecturers
3.1 LEARNING OUTCOMES
- General knowledge about the multiplicity of politics and religious powers, as well as the variety of communities and
collectives that define the Middle Age’s empires and monarchies, especially in West Europe.
- Consolidation of core concepts and precise historic vocabulary in order to recognize, integrate, systematize and express
the archived document’s historic reality.
- Development of an historic perspective between the Medieval politic and religious system and the current one.
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4. OBJECTIVES
Development of the understanding, analysis and systematization capabilities for the purposed collection of themes.
Apply to the documental practice the previously mentioned capacities and knowledges.
Acquire a critical awareness on the development of the Church and the politic forms and medieval institutions.
6. COURSE ORGANIZATION
CONTENTS
1
Introduction and state of the art about the politic-religious building of the Christian Europe. The Roman and
Christian cultural basis.
2
The Church and the Christian society. The conception of the Church’s hierarchical structure. Christianism and
cities. Episcopacy and monasticism.
3
The Empire: Universality and unity in the Christian West. Basis for the imperial title’s authority and contents.
4
The Church and Monarchy encounters: The King’s saintliness, restorations… The royal blood, the marvellous, the
myths, the miracles… in restorations, vitae…
5
The Church’s and Monarchy’s financial resources in the Christian Spain.
6
The legal system.
7. ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
Description
Type
Final Eval.
Reassessment %
Written final exam
Written exam
No
Yes
50,00
Seminars
Others
No
No
20,00
Document’s report - essay
Work
No
No
30,00
TOTAL
100,00
Observations
Observations for part-time students
Part-time students can request the Professor to calculate their final mark from the document’s report and the final exam,
excluding this way the Seminars.
8. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TEACHING MATERIALS
BASIC
Básica
BARBERO A. Carlo Magno. Un padre dell’ Europa, laterza, Roma-Bari, 2000.
FOLZ R. Les saints rois du Moyen Age Occident (VI-XIII siécles), Subsidia Hagiográfica 68, Bruxelles, 1984.
GIERKE, O von Teorías políticas de la Edad Media, Edición de F. W Maitland, Madrid 1995.
GUILLOT, O. RIGADIERE, A. SASSIER, Y. Pouvoirs et institutions dans la France Médiévale. Des temps féodaux aux
temps de l’Etat, 2 vol. París 1994.
HINTZE, O Historia de las formas políticas, Madrid 1968.
Histoire de la pensée politique médiévale: 350-1450, bajo dirección de BURNS, París, 1993.
KANTOROWICZ, E. H. Los dos cuerpos del Rey. Un estudio de teología política medieval, Madrid 1985.
ORSELLI A. Saintità militare e culto dei santi militari nell’ Impero dei Romani (secoli VI-X), Bologna, 1993.
PACAUT, M. Les estructures politiques de l’ Occident Medieval, París 1969.
TABACCO, G. La disoluzione dello Stato medievale nella recente storiografia, Spoleto, 1979.
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