Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in history | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit 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.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
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.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Knowledge of the French language.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
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Recommended or required readings
The framework of the course and some documents showed during the lessons will be available on eCampus
Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Pierre ALEXANDRE
Département des Sciences historiques - Bât. A4, Université de Liège, Quai Roosevelt, 1B, 4000 LIEGE.
e-mail : Pierre.Alexandre@ulg.ac.be