11379 - Medieval History (E-O)

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Paola Galetti
  • Credits: 10
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0264)

Learning outcomes

Students will either come to know the essential topics of Middle Ages and its historiography, and to get the competence to contestualize, in a synchronic and a diachronic way, and to critically examinate a phenomenon or an event, to distinguish the different typologies of historical sources.

Course contents

10 CFU COURSE

The course will investigate some general themes to qualify Middle Age:

1) Middle Ages idea. The Middle Age in the contemporary culture.

2) Man and its environment.

3) The Western world and the others. Islam in the Middle Ages.

4) Social changes and ideologies.

5) Carolingian Empire.

6) Church, churches and religious movements.

7) The "Comuni".

8) State contructional processes in Europe and Italy.

1st semester course

Lessons timetable and centre:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 13-15, Aula II, Via Zamboni 38 

START OF THE COURSE: September 29, 2008 

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5 CFU COURSE

The course will investigate some general themes to qualify the Middle Ages:

1) Middle Ages Idea. The Middle Ages in the contemporary culture. 2) Man and its environment. 3) The Western world and the others. Islam in the Middle Ages. 4) Social changes and ideologies.

1st semester course - 1st cycle

LESSONS TIMETABLE and CENTRE:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 13-15, Aula II, Via Zamboni 38

START OF THE COURSE: September 29, 2008

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6 CFU COURSE

The course will investigate some generale themes to qualify Middle Ages:

1) The Middle Age idea. The Middle Age in the contemporary culture. 2) Man and its environment. 3) The Western world and the others. Islam in the Middle Ages. 4) Social changes and ideologies. 5) The Carolingian empire.

1st semester course, 1st cycle

LESSONS TIMETABLE and CENTRE

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 13-15, Aula II, Via Zamboni 38

START OF THE COURSE: September 29, 2008

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2 CFU ADDITIONAL COURSE

(Please contact the teacher)

Check for the bibliography in the next paragraph.

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

10 CFU COURSE

Compulsory bibliography for all students (theme number 2): P. GALETTI, Uomini e case nel Medioevo tra Occidente e Oriente , Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2008.

For attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study two themes (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. It is also requested the knowledge of the main events of Medieval history, presented during the lessons.

For not-attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study two themes (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. In addition to that, it is requested to study the volume: C.AZZARA, Le civiltà del Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004. 

Bibliography:

- theme 1 : G. SERGI, L'idea di Medioevo. Tra senso comune e pratica storica, Roma, Donzelli, 1998   P. DELOGU, Il Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino,  2005.

 - theme 3 : A.DUCELLIER, F.MICHEAU, L'Islam nel Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino,

- theme 4 : G. DUBY, Lo specchio del feudalesimo. Sacerdoti, guerrieri e lavoratori, Roma-Bari, Laterza,1998.

- theme 5 :  A.BARBERO, Carlo Magno. Un padre dell'Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000.

- theme 6 : G.M.CANTARELLA, V.POLONIO, R.RUSCONI, Chiesa, chiese, movimenti religiosi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007.

- theme 7 : G. MILANI, I Comuni italiani, Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2005.

- theme 8 : I. LAZZARINI, L'Italia degli Stati territoriali. Secoli XIII-XV, Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2003.

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5 CFU COURSE

Compulsory bibliography for all students (theme number 2): P. GALETTI, Uomini e case nel Medioevo tra Occidente e Oriente , Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2008.

For attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study one theme (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4. It is also requested the knowledge of the main events of Medieval history, presented during the lessons.

For not-attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study one theme (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4. In addition to that, it is requested to study the volume: C.AZZARA, Le civiltà del Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004. 

Bibliography: please refer to 10 cfu course ( 1,3,4).

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6 CFU COURSE

Compulsory bibliography for all students (theme number 2): P. GALETTI, Uomini e case nel Medioevo tra Occidente e Oriente , Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2008.

For attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study one theme (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5. It is also requested the knowledge of the main events of medieval history, presented during the lessons. For theme 5: M.BECHER, Carlo Magno, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000.

For not-attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study one theme (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5. For 5 theme: M.Becher, Carlo Magno, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000. In addition to that, it is requested to study the volume: C.AZZARA, Le civiltà del Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004. 

Bibliography: please refer to 10 cfu course ( 1,3,4).

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2 CFU ADDITIONAL COURSE

It is obligatory to study two themes (of your own choice) in: AA.VV., Storia Medievale, Roma, Donzelli, 1998 ( and reprints).

Teaching methods

The course is based on frontal lessons concerning general medieval history and some investigations on qualifing Middle Ages themes, enriched by the presentation and comment of different typologies of written and material sources. Excursions, visits to exibitions, movie visions will take place.

Assessment methods

ORAL EXAM.

The minimum standard of learing required to the student is to be able to place in the correct chronological order the most important events of the Middle Ages, to justify the causal connections between the different events and to investigate the themes that will be proposed by the teacher during the lessons.

Teaching tools

Overhead projector, video and slide projector, audiovisual aids and power-point

Office hours

See the website of Paola Galetti