After taking part in this course students have:
- knowledge of different types of handwritten sources for studying the Middle Ages and have a basic knowledge of the possibilities and problems of an interdiscipilinary approach to medieval culture and society.
- knowledge of the methods (particularly regarding the material aspects of a book, types of writing, decoration and the composition of a manuscript description) with which manuscript sources can be studied.
- have the knowledge to compose a readable and informative Wikipedia entry about a medieval manuscript.
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This is the first course of the minor The Middle Ages.
Scholars of different disciplines try to (re)construct the medieval past. In doing so they rely on the study of medieval sources that are often handed down to us in a handwritten form. To study such sources particular skills have to be developed and this course aims at the development of such skills. In this course we look at manuscript sources from the perspective of different disciplines (history, art history or literary studies) in order to understand them in their full significance. Particular attention will be paid to the material aspects of the book (codicology), the ability to read and study the script (palaeography), to the decoration and illuminations, and to the process of digitizing this rich source material.
LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major, need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See for more information: https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/
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