Course
Course 15 credits • ARKN21
Teaching – autumn semester of 2020
Due to the announcement from the Swedish Government issued May 29th, that returning to campus-based education is possible from June 15th, the following applies to teaching at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology during the autumn semester:
- Due to the ongoing corona (COVID-19) pandemic and the restrictions that have been issued, the courses taught this autumn will have a limited number of meetings on campus, depending on the availability of suitable lecture rooms. The major part of the teaching will take place online. Detailed information on what is the case for your course will be given below.
- If the teaching is campus-based, there will be assigned entry and exit passages for each teaching room regarding stairwells, corridors and entrances (doorways). Please be considerate and follow the instructions to the point. Hand disinfectant will be available in all lecture halls and group rooms.
Please pay attention to the start time of your teaching. The stated time in your course schedule is valid.
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 2020
Type of education:
both campus/online
Type of studies:
full time,
day
Study period:
2020-11-09 – 2021-01-17
Language of instruction:
English
Application code:
LU-30271
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, 2 November at 13.15 – 15.00 in LUX:B237
Teachers:
Torbjörn Ahlström,
Susanne Berndt Ersöz,
Lovisa Brännstedt,
Fredrik Ekengren,
Martin Hansson