Course
Course 15 credits • ARKN21
The general theme of the course is the value of early texts as sources, and the relationship between text and materiality. We address the social function of texts, the dynamics between text and speech, text types, practical approaches to the physical text, the methodology of close reading, the creation of texts, the keeping and preservation of texts, texts on objects and in space. Furthermore, the course highlights problems and challenges associated with translations and editions of texts. Examples of sources may include Greek and Latin texts and epigraphy, runic inscriptions, Icelandic sagas, documentary sourses, and letters. The teaching consists of lectures and seminars. The aim of the lectures is to provide students with specialised methodological and theoretical perspectives and the aim of the seminars to subject a series of key texts to close reading and interpretation. The objective is to provide students with tools to become familiar with, interpret and take a position on the complexity of our sources to the past.
Study period:
autumn semester 2023
Type of studies:
full time,
day
Study period:
2023-11-06 – 2024-01-12
Language of instruction:
English
Application code:
LU-30053
Eligibility:
Students must have passed a BA course, Level 3, in Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, Historical Osteology, History, Latin, Greek, History of Ideas, History of Religion, or the equivalent.
Introductory meeting: Monday, 30 October at 8.15 – 10.00 in LUX:A127
Teachers:
Ing-Marie Back Danielsson,
Susanne Berndt Ersöz,
Lovisa Brännstedt,
Fredrik Ekengren,
Magdalena Naum,
Maria Nilsson