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Numismatics : Middle Ages and Modern Times [ LHART2270 ]


5.0 crédits ECTS  30.0 h   1q 

This biannual course is taught on years 2015-2016, 2017-2018, ....

Language French
Place
of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Prerequisites

A good knowledge of the history of the Western world.

Main themes

Introduction to the study of monetary documents of the Middle Ages and Modern Era and examination of recognition criteria (striking, metal, weight, legend, iconography, circulation). Application to our former principalities and study of ateliers. Study of money as dating method in archaeology and links to lectures on archive sources, history of techniques, and economic history.

Aims
  • To analyse the different monetary systems in their economic, social and political context.
  • To be able to make a correct inventory of numismatic collections.
Evaluation methods

Assessment : oral.

Teaching methods

Essentially lectures with a visit to the Coin Cabinet of Brussels and another one to the collections of the UCL.
 Identification exercice of determination of numismatic objects.

Content
  •  Numismatics and monetary history, followed by a presentation of numismatic sources.
  •  The work methods (study of dies, weight, metals, hoards, coins from excavations).
  • History of money from the Middle Ages and the Modern Era (the Later Empire-Byzantium, the Merovingians, the Carolingian denarius, the feudal denarius, the transformations of the " XIIIth century " (1160-1330), bimetallism and its consequences (1330-1500), the era of the silver thaler (XVth-XVIIth centuries.)
  • The art of medals : technical and artistic aspects, from the Renaissance till the XXth century. 
Other information

None.

Cycle et année
d'étude
> Master [120] in History
> Master [120] in History of Art and Archaeology : General
> Master [60] in History of Art and Archaeology : General
Faculty or entity
in charge
> ARKE


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