39545 - History of Family and Society in the Middle Ages (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Docente: Paolo Pirillo
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: M-STO/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History and Oriental Studies (cod. 8845)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will have the ability to evaluate the historiographic orientations as regards the subject matter of the course, and they will be able to read and interpret hand written as well as published documents, they will learn to contextualize general issues by working on specific research cases. Students will be aware of the importance and historicization  of concepts linked with both society and family, and will be able to interpret the lexicon as well as  its analytical categories.
Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.

Course contents

Family history and Gender history

 The Gender History for a very long time has been studied as gender responds to a social construction that considers female and male identities as subject to change over time. The course aims to answer this question about gender identity for women and men during the medieval age. The lessons will examine the theme of gender identity in its religious dimension, in the contexts of society, family and married life. Throughout the whole of the Middle Ages we will indeed witness the progressive differentiation between the two sexes, the growth of a hierarchy and a predominant social and cultural male role that would shape society for all the centuries to the present day.

Readings/Bibliography

Reference text

D. Lett, Uomini e donne nel Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014

Students who do not attend classes will add: C. Klapisch Zuber, Albero genealogico e costruzione della parentela nel Rinascimento, in «Quaderni Storici», 86, anno 39, n. 2 (agosto 1994), pp. 405-420 (available in pdf in the materials section of the course)

Teaching methods

Language of instruction: italian

Assessment methods

This exam is an oral exam through which the critical and methodological abilities acquired by the student during the course will be evaluated; the student will be invited to discuss the issues addressed during the course. The following abilities will be evaluated positively: a student's ability to familiarize him/herself with bibliographical material and sources with the aim of selecting information from the literature that can be used to illustrate  aspects and areas of culture pertaining to the discipline. The ability to reach a critical and systematic vision of the discipline and the ability to demonstrate the possession of a descriptive command and of appropriate  field-specific language will be rewarded with a mark of excellence.

Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.

This 6 CFU course can be chosen as a part of the 12 CFU Integrated Course “XXX (C.I.) (LM)". If the student has the Integrated Course (12 CFU) in his/her study plan, the final grade will result from the arithmetic average of the marks obtained in the two parts (“XXX (1) (LM)" and “YYY (1) (LM) “).

 

Office hours

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SDGs

Gender equality

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.