https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/HISU5006?type=COREAccording to many scholars, the Middle Ages radically differed from our time, even being considered incomprehensible and lost forever. Yet, many phenomena that define modernity and thus our society (democracy, capitalism, secularization,
) are rooted in the Middle Ages. This course aims to open up a series of theoretical and historiographical debates to provide a toolkit for better understanding medieval society and our relationship with it as historians. To do so, this course will focus on the significance of interdisciplinarity from multiple thematic and regional aspects. Class participants will discuss the main conceptual and methodological issues of the given topic, reflecting on the readings connected to the lecture's theme. Students are expected to engage critically with the readings and to show how their own research topics relate to these current debates.For each session, except the first, you will read texts from historiography or history and texts from other humanities and social sciences.