Aims

By the end of this preseminar, the student should be able to put into practice the historian's procedure in the documentary and critical study of a precise question in medieval history

Main themes

This preseminar is intended as a preparation for the corresponding licence seminar.
During group work sessions, each participant, based on a preliminary personal work, presents his analysis of an aspect of his chosen theme, paying particular attention to heuristic and critical aspects.
The procedures and treatment stages, as well as the general synthesis and conclusions are elucidated in common.

Content and teaching methods

Consisting of a seminar simulation, in preparation for the licence seminar. But also, for those who do not centre their research and licence memoir on the middle ages, it should provide as concrete a notion as possible of what the medieval world is and the work of those who reconstitute it. Based on a theme proposed, we determine the procedures and stages of treatment (a questionnaire, heuristics, criticism, analysis, synthesis and presentation of results). Each participant carries out his own research, based on close supervision.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisites : knowledge of Latin preferred (if not, the student is oriented towards sources in old French).
Evaluation : based on an oral presentation, completed by a composition which will take into account observations made by all the members during the oral presentation.
Teaching materials : Student notes.
Use of a computer data base.
Teaching : by the instructor and a medievalist assistant.

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