85522 - BYZANTINE CIVILIZATION

Anno Accademico 2020/2021

  • Docente: Giorgio Vespignani
  • Crediti formativi: 6
  • SSD: L-FIL-LET/07
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in International cooperation on human rights and intercultural heritage (cod. 9237)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The aim of the course is: to furnish a basic knowledge of history and institutions of the Eastern-Roman, or Byzantine, Empire (IV-XV Century), useful for a better comprehension of the process of formation of the political realities of the modern and contemporary Eastern Europe and of his actual reality.

Contenuti

1) A General View:

Lines of study and materials useful for the comprehension of the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantine Civilisation ( IV-XV Century ).

Periodization, territorial changements, sources, political ideology, with particular attention to the heredity for the study of modern Eastern Europe ( XV-XVI Century ).

2) A Monographic Part.:

Interests of the rising Russia at the Council of the Churches in Florence (1439).

Testi/Bibliografia

Part 1)

A manual of Byzantine Civilisation in the Language the student prefere.

For example, in english, The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500-1492, eited. by J. Shepard, Cambridge, 2008. In italian: Bisanzio, a cura di A. Carile, A. Ducellier, M. Balard et Alii, Torino, Einaudi, 1988,

Part 2)

J. Gill, Il Concilio di Firenze, Firenze, Sansoni, whatelse edition. Exist also the english transation.

materials distribuited and discussed during the lessons.

Metodi didattici

Themes, texts and bibliography are discussed during the Course.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Assessment method consists in an oral proof, when the student must demonstrate his level of capacity in discuss the themes choosed, and critically assimilated texts and bibliography.

Naturally, the student can proposed to discuss themes, materials and bibliography differents from that of lessions.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

During the course shall be shown images and fournished working material and bibliography

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Giorgio Vespignani