
School: | Social Sciences | ||
Academic Unit: | Social Anthropology and History | ||
Level of studies: | Undergraduate | ||
Course code: | W-S-028 | Semester: | 7th |
Course Title: | Family and inheritance in Lesvos (19th century): Between Christian and Ottoman justice | ||
Independent teaching activities | Weekly teaching hours | Credits | |
Lectures | 3 | 6 | |
Course type: | Specialized general knowledge Skills development | ||
Prerequisite courses: | Kinship, marriage and family in the Ottoman-Greek world in the 18th and 19th centuries | ||
Language of instruction and examinations: | Greek | ||
Is the course offered to erasmus students: | No | ||
Course website (Url): | https://en.sah.aegean.gr/course/ws-028 / |
(2) LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning outcomes:
The students are expected to:
• Become familiarized with documents as well as with the problems of reading and understanding archival material in the form of manuscripts
• Connect the sources with the framework of the organization of kinship in the area studied
• Connect the course with the approaches and perspectives of the historiography of the family
General Competences:
• Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
• Access to archival sources and evaluation
(3) SYLLABUS
The seminar focuses on the interfamilial conflicts which are related to the circulation of goods within kinship groups. It is based on a corpus of documents stored in the Archive of the Ecclesiastical Court of Mytilene and the Archive of the Mitropolis of Methymna ((www.arxeiomnimon.gak.gr), which include adjudicated cases of family dispute (1880-1912). At first, students are introduced into the aspects of circulation of family goods in Lesvos. Afterwards, they are familiarized with the reading of manuscripts. After a first period in which the access to sources – cases adjudicated before the ecclesiastical courts – is tested, the students examine issues that emerge in the archival material related to the local organization of kinship and the transmission of good. Finally, they investigate alternate uses of Christian and Ottoman judicial framework in kinship disputes.
(4) TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS – EVALUATION
Delivery: | Face-to face | ||
Use of information and communications technology : | |||
Teaching methods: | Activity | Semester workload | |
Two weekly meetings with the group devoted to lectures | 6 | ||
Familiarization with the digitalized archival material and preparation for the approach of the material in the following weekly meetings | 50 | ||
Oral presentation of sources | 70 | ||
Written essay | 30 | ||
Course total: | 156 | ||
Student performance evaluation: | The course evaluates: • Presence and participation in the weekly meetings (30%) • Oral presentation and analysis of the sources (40%) • Final written essay on the basis of the evaluation of sources and related bibliography (30%) |
(5) ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Suggested bibliography:
– Suggested bibliography:
Ε. Σιφναίου, 2009, Έλληνες έμποροι στην Αζοφική
Ε. Παπαταξιάρχης, «La valeut du ménage. Classes sociales, strategies matrimoniales et lois ecclesiastiques a Lesvos au XIXe siècle”, σ.100-142, στο St. Wolf (επιμ.), 1993, Espaces et Familles dans L’Europe du Sud a l’ age moderne
M. Σταματογιαννοπούλου, «Μακράν κοίτης και τραπέζης. Οι συζυγικές συγκρούσεις στη Λέσβο του 1900», σ. 107-138, Μνήμων, 16(1994)
Δ. Σταματόπουλος, 2017, Ιερός Αρμενόπουλος ή ιεροί κανόνες;