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 into 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.

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