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.

Content and teaching methods

Lecture with text analysis of the central and local institutions of the ancient Netherlands until the burgundian princes to the end of the old regime.
It will underline the permanent tensions between the will of absolutism of the king and the particular wills of the principalities. Moreover these claims will fail.

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

Evaluation: Individual examination in a manner to be determined by the lecturer.
Teaching materials: student notes.
Collection of texts. Bibliographical references. Readings.
Teaching: by the lecturer.

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