5 credits
45.0 h
Q1
This biannual learning unit is not being organized in 2018-2019 !
Language
French
Main themes
The teaching approaches general questions related to the concept of Romanization, the definition of late antiquity and the problems of the passage of antiquity to the Early Middle Age. It considers the archaeological sources of this period by replacing them in their political, administrative, military, religious, ethnic, economic and social contexts.
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | Advanced training for students who specialized in National Archaeology. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
One part of the course concerns the study of two provinces : Gallia Belgica and Germania Inferior, which are included in current Belgium. Main themes will be studied chronologically : military episodes, road network, creation of the civitates, urban settlements (caput civitatis and agglomerations), land use and rural settlements, religious and funerary practices and economy. The second part concerns the problem of the end of the romanity and the germanization of our regions. The major topics are the new geopolitical, ethnic and economic framework, the appearance and the christianization of the fortified cities, the territory's defence, the rural world's decline, the evolution of the funerary habits, the germanization of the North Gaul and the shifts of the population in the Vth century B.C.
Teaching methods
Ex cathedra sessions are composed by some different parts which will be adapted to the theme studied : theoric part, synthetic part according to the actuality of the research in North Gaul and cases studies. Exhibition, visits and active participation on archaeological surveys.
Evaluation methods
Oral exam.
Bibliography
Bibliographie de base et série d'ouvrages commentés en séance selon les thématiques abordées.
Faculty or entity
ARKE
