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410006 SE Tracing identity: material and context (2023W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 04.09.2023 08:00 to Fr 22.09.2023 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.10.2023 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: German, English
Lecturers
Classes
The first seminar will take place on Wednesday, 11th October 2023, 9:45–11:15, at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Franz Klein Gasse 1, Seminarraum 12 (1st floor). The individual sessions will be announced soon.
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Active and constant oral cooperation, presentation of a study on the subject of the course from the topic of her dissertation. Written text (4000-5000 words).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Active and constant oral cooperation, oral presentation and submission of a written work (4000-5000 words).
Examination topics
Literature on the course topic (see below, more will be made available via Moodle).
Reading list
E. Angliker – I. Bultrighini (eds), New Approaches to the Materiality of Text in the Ancient Mediterranean from Monuments and Buildings to Small Portable Objects, Turnhout 2023.
S. Birk – T. Myrop Kristensen, B. Poulsen, Using Images in Late Antiquity, Oxford 2014.
M. I. Finley, Quellen und Modelle in der Alten Geschichte, Frankfurt a. M. 1987.
H.-J. Gehrke – H. Schneider (Hgg.), Geschichte der Antike: Quellenband, Stuttgart, Weimar 2007.
L. Lavan – E. Swift – T. Putzeys, Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: Sources, Approaches and Field Methods, in: L. Lavan – E. Swift – T. Putzeys (edd.), Objects in Context, Objects in Use (Late Antique Archaeology 5), Leiden 2007, 1–42.
A. Momigliano, The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography, Berkeley - Los Angeles - Oxford 1990.
A. Momigliano, Wege in die Alte Welt, Frankfurt a. M. 1995.
J. Stoner, The Cultural Lives of Domestic Objects in Late Antiquity, vol. 4, Leiden 2019.
S. Birk – T. Myrop Kristensen, B. Poulsen, Using Images in Late Antiquity, Oxford 2014.
M. I. Finley, Quellen und Modelle in der Alten Geschichte, Frankfurt a. M. 1987.
H.-J. Gehrke – H. Schneider (Hgg.), Geschichte der Antike: Quellenband, Stuttgart, Weimar 2007.
L. Lavan – E. Swift – T. Putzeys, Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: Sources, Approaches and Field Methods, in: L. Lavan – E. Swift – T. Putzeys (edd.), Objects in Context, Objects in Use (Late Antique Archaeology 5), Leiden 2007, 1–42.
A. Momigliano, The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography, Berkeley - Los Angeles - Oxford 1990.
A. Momigliano, Wege in die Alte Welt, Frankfurt a. M. 1995.
J. Stoner, The Cultural Lives of Domestic Objects in Late Antiquity, vol. 4, Leiden 2019.
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Last modified: Su 08.10.2023 18:28
The aim of the seminar is to provide the students with the methodical tool to carefully evaluate the sources and to critically examine the way previous research used the sources. The intention is to discuss the terms “Materiality” and “Context”, how can the different types of sources be approached? How can you get them to “talk”? What not to do with the sources? The focus of our consideration will be the interaction between archaeological, visual and philological evidence, the material conditions (historical situation, losses, representativeness, etc.) and the embedding of the individual pieces of information in their proper context. When discussing the approaches, different schools and aspects of the history of science should be presented at the same time.