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UC3Mx: Forma poética y función práctica del trazo manuscrito

by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Paleografía y caligrafía con manuscritos históricos hispánicos

Advanced-level course offered by UC3Mx

Course Description

Welcome to "Paleografía y caligrafía con manuscritos históricos hispánicos" (Paleography and Calligraphy with Hispanic Historical Manuscripts), an advanced-level course offered by UC3Mx. This fascinating journey through time will immerse you in the world of handwritten texts from various historical contexts, exploring the intersection of administrative, economic, and legal functions with expressive forms that define writing systems.

In this course, you'll delve into the study of handwriting in six distinct historical situations, treating each as an integration of form and function. You'll explore the expressiveness of strokes, the cultural representation of handwriting from medieval times, and its connection to music, all while analyzing manuscript texts. By the end of this course, you'll have acquired competencies in transcribing medieval and modern examples, based on the morphological characteristics of writing cycles associated with book and document production in Hispanic kingdoms.

What students will learn

Link historical paleographic skills to calligraphic creativity
Understand the historical context of manuscript production
Identify letter types used in different eras
Analyze and comprehend the materiality of manuscripts
Apply detailed observation and capture technologies
Integrate paleographic and calligraphic capabilities
Solve manuscript transcription cases
Study handwritten communication and its pictorial, literary, and expressive representation

Pre-requisites

Spanish language proficiency is essential
Knowledge of history and Latin is highly recommended but not mandatory

Course Coverage

Exploration of strokes in scientific writing
Paleography and calligraphy of empirical knowledge
Political writing and legal documents
Ephemeral written culture, including palimpsests and marginalia
Musical notation in manuscripts
Calligraphy and literary creation
Calligraphy and painting in medieval and modern art

Who this course is for

This course is ideal for advanced learners with a passion for history, language, and art. It's particularly suited for students of history, linguistics, art history, and cultural studies, as well as professionals in fields such as archiving, museum curation, and historical research.

Real-world applications

Historical research and analysis
Museum and archive work
Document preservation and restoration
Literary and artistic studies
Cultural heritage management
Forensic document examination
Teaching history and paleography
Creating historically accurate reproductions for film and television

Syllabus

Week 1:

Exploration of strokes. Written science. Paleography and calligraphy of empirical knowledge. Natural Sciences and writing. Travel and exploration diaries. Letters and accounts of the discovered world.

Week 2:

Written politics: Writing the law. Constitutions, laws, and legal systems. Paleography and Calligraphy of legal documents. Charters, observations, town charters, and their manuscript and morphological evolution from medieval times.

Week 3:

Ephemeral written culture: palimpsests, fragments, and marginalia in documentary and library materiality. Secondary writing spaces and semi-hidden manuscript testimonies. Constitutive materiality of volumes, codices, and registers. Codicology and fragmentology. Recovery of fragments in archives. Maculatures. Case studies. Technological applications and multispectral photography.

Week 4:

Writing music: Paleography and Calligraphy of music in the Iberian Peninsula. Handwritten musical notations in medieval and modern codices. Maculatures and interpretation. Recovery of testimonies and unpublished pieces. Joint research: paleography + musicology.

Week 5:

Calligraphy and literary creation. Paleography and written culture of literary works from the Middle Ages. Creating visual poetry with strokes: contemporary calligraphy of works in verse and prose.

Week 6:

Calligraphy and painting: unraveling the handwritten meanings of pictorial works. Inscriptions, cartouches, phylacteries, handwritten messages in medieval and modern painting. The handwritten as a visual and scenographic resource.

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