Aims

By the end of this seminar, the student should be capable of putting the historian's procedure into practice in the context of the documentary and critical study of a precise question in medieval history.

Main themes

This seminar is designed as a preparation for the corresponding master's seminar. During the group working sessions, based on preliminary personal work, each participant presents his analysis of an aspect of the chosen theme, paying particular attention to the heuristic and critical aspects. The procedures and stages of the treatment, as well as the global synthesis and conclusions, are brought out together.

Content and teaching methods

This is a simulation seminar, preparatory to the master's seminar. But also apt to give those not centring their research and their master's memoir on the Middle Ages an as concrete as possible notion of what the medieval world was and the work of those reconstituting it. Based on a proposed theme, the procedures and stages of treatment are determined (questionnaires, heuristics, critique, analysis, synthesis and presentation of results). Thus each of the participants carries out his own research, with close accompaniment.

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

Prerequisites : Knowledge of Latin is preferable (otherwise the student is oriented toward sources in Old French).
Evaluation : based on an oral presentation completed by a written one which will take into account observations made by all the members during the oral presentation.
Support : student notes
Data bases are used.
Teaching staff : the professor and a medievalist assistant

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