Reading the structures of space – geographical and historical approach 1600-SZD-ID-OSP
The purpose of the workshop is to familiarize doctoral students with the basic sources and research methods of historical geography - this will allow them to conduct practical research during the workshop on the spatial development of cities, villages and complexes of buildings of historic or sacred character. The selected historical-geographical sources discussed during the class fall into several categories: 1) written sources of a narrative nature (Old Polish yearbooks and chronicles, parish chronicles, diaries, diaries). This section will discuss, for example, the geographical description of the Kingdom of Poland from the middle of the 15th century by Jan Długosz - among other things, the doctoral students will assess its correspondence to reality; 2) written sources of a normative nature and accompanying documentation (legal acts, lustrations, inventories). Documents of this type make it possible to conduct research on the development of settlement and communication networks. Here, the participants of the class will learn about the old location documents determining the appearance of towns and villages, which will become the basis for considering the remains of the original spatial structures in today's morphology of the settlement unit; 3) onomastic messages drawn from cartographic material and written sources analyzed by the retrogressive method help to reconstruct the old landscape on the basis of linguistic-historical analysis of the names of spatial objects. In this class, doctoral students will attempt to index and identify toponomastically selected old maps; 4) iconographic sources (painting, graphics, heraldic ensembles) enable recognition of elements of spatial consciousness of ancient societies. In this part, doctoral students will learn methods of research conducted, for example, on selected works of art, for example, heraldic ensembles (stonework, sphragistics or woodcuts) that represent a symbolic idea of the presentation of space.
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge | The graduate knows and understands:
WG_02 - the main development trends in the disciplines of the social sciences in which the education is provided
Skills | The graduate is able to:
UW_01 – make use of knowledge from various fields of science, in particular the social sciences in order to creatively identify, formulate and innovatively solve complex problems or perform tasks of a research nature, and in particular to: define the purpose and object of scientific research in the field of the social sciences, formulate a research hypothesis; develop research methods, techniques and tools and apply them creatively; make inferences based on scientific findings
UK_04 - participating in scientific discourse in the field of the social sciences
Social competences | The graduate is ready to
KK_01 - critically evaluating achievements within a given scientific discipline in the field of the social sciences
And others: The doctoral student knows the basics of the historical-geographical workshop (including paleographic and neographic), so he can independently use source materials.
Assessment criteria
Description of requirements related to participation in classes, including the
permitted number of explained absences: Requirements: activity during class; number of explained absences allowed: 2
Principles for passing the classes and the subject (including resit session): Preparation and delivery of a presentation on historical changes in the space of the selected area.
Methods for the verification of learning outcomes: Attendance list, activity during the class.
Evaluation criteria: Use of skills acquired during the workshop.
Practical placement
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Bibliography
S. Cisek, Geohistoria: rzecz o granicach Polski, Łódź 2022. A. Czerny (red.), Dawne mapy topograficzne w badaniach geograficzno-historycznych, Lublin 2015.
W. Szelińska, Chorographia regni Poloniae Jana Długosza, Kraków 1980.
B. Szady, Geografia historyczna w Polsce - rozwój i perspektywy, „Studia Geohistorica“ 1 (2013), s. 19–38. J. Tyszkiewcz, Geografia historyczna: Zarys problematyki, Warszawa 2014.
Additional information
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