This is the supporting material for graduate seminars taught from 2004 to 2007 on a course management system. The hierarchical structure of the CMS and the interaction between interpretation and documents are reproduced in the layout of the pages:

• The overview of a topic on the fist page of each chapter, on a light yellow coloured background with brown type, has a list of key points in the left-hand column, each subdivided into several issues in the right-hand column.

• Each of these issues is developed as case-studies on a separate page (white background), the argument being placed in one column and the documents in the other column.
  • The thumbnail images of the overview, which evoke the key points of the chapter, reappear magnified and explained in the case-study pages or in the linked pages.
  • Where the documents are textual, the type is serif so as to evoke old printed texts as primary material, whereas the interpretative texts are sanserif.

• The questions (colours inverted by comparison with the overview pages: yellow type on a brown background), placed on a hyperlink after the introduction of each lesson and before the list of key points, are an integral part of the material, which is presented as issues and which is left incomplete so that the linked websites and the answers to the questions form part of the final argument.

The pages, both internal pages and external links, open in new windows so that the users may keep several windows open at a time in order to compare them.