UCL - Fundamentals of institutional and political history : antiquity

[HIST1381]

[15h] 3 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s): Françoise Van Haeperen

Language: French

Level: First

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods

Aims

By the end of this course, the student should be able to place an institution in its political, ideological, economic, social and cultural context, by analysing its competencies and functioning and identifying the actors involved. He should also be able to place questions currently debated by researchers in the field in their historiographical context.

Main themes

Attentive to spatial and temporal evolutions, the course will make use of a documentary corpus available in translation. It will foster knowledge of institutional nomenclatures, indispensable for researching this period, and will introduce students to new problematics and methods in the sector.

Content and teaching methods

Citizenship in classical Athens and in Rome from republic to empire.