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| GEOG0600-1 | Historical Geography
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Pierre Alexandre |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Historical geography is the reconstruction, from historical sources, of the geographical state of a chosen period; it is also the study of this geographical state throughout history. So historical geography must be distinguished from history of the geography, which is the history of the advances of this discipline.
After a general overview of the origin and the development of historical geography, from the Renaissance, the course will present a glimpse of the main written and cartographic sources, which ensure the historian for locating past regions and peoples and reconstructing the past environment: for example Greek and Roman geographers and cartographers (Strabon, Ptolemy, etc.), Arab geographers of the Middle Ages, Chinese sources, geographical sources of mediaeval and Renaissance Europe, etc.
A specific chapter will be devoted to the toponymy, an auxiliary science of the historical geography: it will be shown how the study of the origin, the siginification and the transformation of the place names can help towards the knowledge of the evolution of the past settlement; the chosen examples are toponyms coming from the name layers (celtic, latin, romance and germanic words).
The course will end with an overview of the main methods which help historians in reconstructing the evolution of the past natural phenomena, particularly the climate fluctuations and the historical seismicity. |
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| Course objective : | History and geography are two complementary disciplines; the objective of the course is to emphasize the need for each historian to clearly locate each historical phenomenon. |
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| Prerequisites : | Knowledge of the French language. |
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| Organization : | See : http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires |
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| Written notes : | The framework of the course and some documents showed during the lessons will be available on WebCT. |
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| Assessment : | Written examination. |
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| Contacts : | Pierre ALEXANDRE
Département des Sciences historiques - Bât. A4, Université de Liège, Quai Roosevelt, 1B, 4000 LIEGE.
e-mail : Pierre.Alexandre@ulg.ac.be |
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