- 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
Charlatans and Empiricists: illusionism, deception and entertainment in the Islamic Middle Age
This seminar offers the Students an anthology of thought-provoking readings and discussions to explore the practical application of natural sciences for entertainment and deception. The seminar explores the circulation of these materials, their paths of transmission, and their value as sources for the material and social history of the premodern world.
Readings/Bibliography
The seminar syllabus and the related materials will be available in the online platform Virtual Learning Environment.
Teaching methods
The course provides the students with the theoretical tools to engage in the reading and comment of primary sources in an interdisciplinary perspective. 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.
The Students who attend the course will be asked to chose a theme to explore in depth, either among those suggested as supplementary readings or to be arranged with the teacher.
Office hours
See the website of Lucia Raggetti