410008 SE Colloquium of the research clusters "Archaeology and material culture" and (2022S)

The subject of this interdisciplinary seminar is the methodical approach to historical sources. "Sources" are not only understood to mean the intentional and non-intentional written tradition, but above all the iconographic and material sources (artefacts). Each group is differentiated into a large number of genera, each of which has very different conditions and characteristics.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 them. 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.