1.5 ACTIVITIES 1. Look at SOURCE2 and analyse it by completing the tasks below.
SOURCE2 A French illustration depicting nuns looking after the sick
a. Describe what is happening in the artwork. b. What impression is the artist trying to make about the subject of the artwork (the nuns)? c. What are the ýgures doing? What are the various activities? Can you identify the different roles among the ýgures? d. What sort of problems in dealing with historical sources do your answers to the above questions highlight? 2. You have learnt some of the history behind SOURCE1 and the sort of information it presents. This helped assess its usefulness as a source. You should now be able to think about the effectiveness of SOURCE2 as a historical source by answering the following questions. a. It is fairly certain that SOURCE2 was created under the direction of Church authorities. Perhaps members of the clergy created it. How might that inþuence the way the nuns are presented? b. If this was the only source available on the role of nuns in the medieval Church, what conclusions might you draw? Would all your ýndings be accurate? c. Why must historians be careful when looking at sources such as this? The types of questions you have asked about SOURCE2 can be used for any medieval artwork — in fact, they can be used to analyse artwork from any era. Keep them in mind whenever you are looking at history through artwork. 3. Based on your work interpreting sources on medieval Europe, answer the following questions. a. What types of artworks are categorised under the term ‘medieval artworks’? b. What does it mean to explore the content of an artwork? c. Explain what exploring the context of a medieval artwork requires historians to do. d. How can analysing medieval artwork be useful to historians?
LESSON 1.6 SkillBuilder: Continuity and change
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this SkillBuilder you should be able to explain continuity and change over time.
1.6.1 Tell me What does ‘explain continuity and change’ mean when studying history?
When we study history, we try to understand how certain elements have persisted over time and how others have transformed. Continuity refers to aspects of the past that have remained relatively unchanged, while change refers to the evolution or transformation of other components over time.
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