- Docente: Lucia Raggetti
- Credits: 6
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philosophical Sciences (cod. 8773)
Course contents
Recipes, tricks and talismans
This seminar offers the students an anthology of thought-provoking readings and discussions to explore different kinds of practical applications derived from the sciences of nature, along with their peculiar transmission and circulation in the premodern world. These applications' procedures and aims offer a glimpse into the daily like along with collective and personal aspirations in the ancient and pre-modern world.
Readings/Bibliography
The seminar syllabus and the related materials will be available in the online platform 'Insegnamenti online IOL'
Teaching methods
The course will offer frontal lessons that will provide the students with the theoretical tools to engage in the reading and comment of primary sources. Students will be encouraged to follow their specific interests developed during the course, and to present the results of their individual or group research in class. In general, they will be invited to take active part to the discussion in class.
Assessment methods
Oral examination in which the student will be asked to display his or her knowledge of the contents dealt with during the seminar, as well as the ability to commento on the primary sources and link the different topics dealt with in class.
Office hours
See the website of Lucia Raggetti