Diplomatic Training for Historians
or get to know medieval Hungarian documents
The course is taught by: Mgr. Balázs Csiba, PhD.
Form of instruction: lecture and seminar (P:1 / S:1)
ECTS: 3
Objective:
To handle the basic work with mediaeval diplomatic material, be able to read, transcribe, translate and analyses texts of charters, have an overview of the genesis, classification and criticism of charters and other diplomatic categories (mandates, letters, official books, files and accounts).
Brief outline:
- Diplomatics as an auxiliary science of history – genesis and division
- Basic diplomatic categories – genesis, classification, criticism
- Charter – technical and internal attributes
- Mandate – technical and internal attributes
- Letter – technical and internal attributes
- Official book – technical and internal attributes
- File – technical and internal attributes
- Accounts – technical and internal attributes
- False documents
Graduation requirements:
- Regular participation and active involvement in seminars, completion of assigned tasks, including a seminar paper in which the student will study certain sources of a diplomatic nature. The seminar paper, on the basis of which the student will receive an assessment, must be submitted during the examination period.
- Number of acceptable absences: 2.
Recommended reading:
- LEHOTSKÁ, Darina. Príručka diplomatiky. Bratislava : SAS, 1972.
- LEHOTSKÁ, Darina. Transkripčné pravidlá, odborná terminológia a ukážky latinských textov. Bratislava : UK Bratislava, 1982.
- LEHOTSKÁ, Darina. Základné diplomatické kategórie. Bratislava : UK Bratislava, 1988.
