410004 SE Medieval Visions of Community - historical and anthropological approaches (2011W)
Key texts and sources on the role of religious, ethnic and political communities in medieval Europe and the Islamic world in comparison
Continuous assessment of course work
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drei bis vier Teilblöcke, 1. Termin: Montag, 10.10., 16h30, Seminarraum, 1040, Wohllebengasse 12-14, Parterre; weitere Termine
Mo 10.10. 16.30-18
Mo 24.10 10-14
Fr 18.11.: 14-19h
Fr 2.12.: 14-19
Fr 20.1.: 14-19
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Mo 10.10. 16.30-18
Mo 24.10 10-14
Fr 18.11.: 14-19h
Fr 2.12.: 14-19
Fr 20.1.: 14-19
gute Englischkenntnisse Voraussetzung! (Forschungsliteratur)
Registration/Deregistration
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 12.09.2011 09:00 to Mo 03.10.2011 08:00
- Deregistration possible until Mo 31.10.2011 08:00
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: German
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Currently no class schedule is known.
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Aims, contents and method of the course
The seminar raises the question of identities and communities in the Middle Ages, mainly considering the example of the early medieval Latin West and the Islamic world with special consideration of South Arabia. It proposes interdisciplinary approaches between history and social anthropology and seeks to reflect the methodology of intercultural comparison. Among others, the relationship between discourses and concepts on the one hand and social practice on the other hand, and the interaction between ethnic, political and religious identities will be an issue.
Assessment and permitted materials
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The seminar chiefly addresses the PhDs in the SFB 'Visions of Community'; and in the ERC project 'Social cohesion, identity and religion';.Other PhDs with related topics will be welcome. The aim is to become familiar with theoretical approaches that can be useful for the theses and to learn to understand the methods of the other discipline.
Examination topics
Core of the seminar is reading and discussion of selected texts (some of them are listed under 'literature'). Intensive preparation and active cooperation will be expected, and in addition, smaller written assignments and oral presentations. Furthermore, there will be opportunities to discuss specific problems of the theses, especially if they are of common methodological interest.
Reading list
Walter Pohl, Visions of Community: Introduction, in: Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World. The West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, 300-1100, ed. Walter Pohl/Clemens Gantner/Richard Payne (Aldershot, erscheint 2012).Andre Gingrich, Envisioning Medieval Communities in Asia: Remarks on ethnicity, tribalism, and faith, ebd.Andre Gingrich/Werner Zips, Ethnohistorie und Historische Anthropologie, in: Winterling, Aloys (Hg.), Historische Anthropologie: Basistexte, München 2006, 245-263.Walter Pohl, Regnum und Gens, in: Der frühmittelalterliche Staat - europäische Perspektiven, ed. Walter Pohl/Veronika Wieser (Wien 2009) 435-450.Walter Pohl, Christian and Barbarian Identities in the Early Medieval West: Introduction, in: Post-Roman Transitions, ed. Walter Pohl/Gerda Heydemann (Turnhout, erscheint 2012)Bernhard Giesen, Codes kollektiver Identität, in: Religion und Identität: Im Horizont des Pluralismus, ed. Werner Gephart/Hans Waldenfels (Frankfurt am Main 1999) 13-43.Richard Jenkins, Social Identity. Key Ideas (Abingdon 2008) 1-27.Marshall Sahlins, Inseln der Geschichte ( Hamburg 1992).
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