- Docente: Francesca Roversi Monaco
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
History (cod. 0962)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0962)
First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0962)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Anthropology, Religions, Oriental Civilizations (cod. 8493)
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide methodological and critical tools to understand the relationships between medieval historiography as a discipline that, through the analysis of sources – in the first place the historiographic ones -, interprets the historical and cultural dynamics of the medieval period, that is the post-medieval representations and uses of themes and subjects warned as medieval in later epochs, characterizing itself in a highly interdisciplinary sense. At the end of the module, students have gained a general view of the critical literature by reading and commenting on the texts; they will be able to recognise and use the main bibliographical resources; they will be able to grasp the prevailing models of the interpretation of events, the connections among the various phases of the construction of historical memory, the various cultural uses of the Middle Ages compared to the political-institutional evolution from a diachronic perspective; they will be able to place in a general framework the medieval/medievalism interactions in their cultural, political and ideological dimension.
Course contents
The basic part of the course (20h.) will be focused on the definition of medievalism as an innovative and interdisciplinary field of research in its relations with medieval historiography in terms of methods and contents.
Part of the course (10 h.) will be dedicated on the political use of the Middle Ages in contemporary society.
Readings/Bibliography
ATTENDING STUDENTS
R. Bordone, Lo specchio di Shalott. L'invenzione del Medioevo nella cultura dell'Ottocento, Napoli 1993
T. di Carpegna Falconieri, Medioevo militante. La politica di oggi alle prese con barbari e crociati, Torino 2011
T. di Carpegna Falconieri, Medievalismi,il posto dell'Italia, in Medievalismi Italiani (secoli XIX-XXI), a c. di T. di Carpegna Falconieri e R. Facchini, Roma 2018, pp. 9-28
U. Eco, Dieci modi di sognare il medioevo, in U. Eco, Sugli specchi e altri saggi, Milano 1985, pp. 78-89/U. Eco, Scritti sul pensiero medievale, Milano 2013, pp. 1093-1108
STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO CONSULT THE SLIDES PUBLISHED ON IOL
NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS
M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o mestiere di storico, Torino 2009
R. Bordone, Lo specchio di Shalott. L'invenzione del Medioevo nella cultura dell'Ottocento, Napoli 1993
R. Bordone, Il medioevo nell’immaginario dell’Ottocento italiano, in «Bullettino dell’istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo», C (1995-96), pp. 109-149
U. Eco, Dieci modi di sognare il medioevo, in U. Eco, Sugli specchi e altri saggi, Milano 1985, pp. 78-89/U. Eco, Scritti sul pensiero medievale, Milano 2013, pp. 1093-1108
T. di Carpegna Falconieri, Medievalismi,il posto dell'Italia, in Medievalismi Italiani (secoli XIX-XXI), a c. di T. di Carpegna Falconieri e R. Facchini, Roma 2018, pp. 9-28
T. di Carpegna Falconieri, Il medievalismo e la grande guerra in Italia, in "Studi Storici". LVI (2015), 2, pp. 251-276
F. Roversi Monaco, Il gran fatto che dovrà commemorarsi: l'Alma Mater Studiorum e l'Ottavo Centenario della sua fondazione. Medioevo, memoria e identità a Bologna dopo l'Unità d'Italia, in Medievalismi Italiani (secoli XIX-XXI), a c. di T. di Carpegna Falconieri e R. Facchini, Roma 2018, pp. 149-162
F. Roversi Monaco, «O falsar la storia…»: Massimo D’Azeglio e la Lega Lombarda, in Per continuare il dialogo. Gli amici ad Angelo Varni, a cura di A. Malfitano, A. Preti, F. Tarozzi, I, Bologna 2014, pp. 131-140
STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO CONSULT THE SLIDES PUBLISHED ON IOL
Teaching methods
FRONTAL LECTURES
Assessment methods
The final exam will be an oral one, with questions aimed to verify the student's knowledge of the themes discussing during frontal lectures (only for attending students) as well as those treated in the program's texts.
Non-attending students will have to take an oral final exam about the themes treated in the program's texts.
The assessment will concentrate particularly on the skill displayed by the student in handling the sources and material in the exam bibliography and his ability to find and use information and examples to illustrate and correlate the various themes and problems addressed in the course.
The assessment will thus examine the student's:
- factual knowledge of the subject;
- ability to summarise and analyse themes and concepts;
- familiarity with the terminology associated with the subject and his ability to use it effectively.
Average marks will be awarded to a student who has memorized the main points of the material and is able to summarise them satisfactorily and provide an effective critical commentary, while failing to display a complete command of the appropriate terminology.
A student will be deemed to have failed the exam if he displays significant errors in his understanding and failure to grasp the overall outlines of the subject, together with a poor command of the appropriate terminology.
Teaching tools
We will use power point slides with images and maps. Various examples of historical sources will be used and discussed.
Office hours
See the website of Francesca Roversi Monaco
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.