11779 - Medieval History (1)

Learning outcomes

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

Course contents

12 CFU COURSE

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

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

2) Man and its environment.

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

4) Social changes and ideologies.

5) Nations, ethnic groups and kingdoms: Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages.

6) Church, churches and religious movements.

7) The medieval origins of Europe.

8) Men and countryside in medieval Italy.

9) The "Comuni".

10) State constructional 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, 2009

10 CFU COURSE

The course will investigate some general themes to qualify the Middle Ages: themes 1-10 (cfr. 12 cfu course)

1st semester course

Lessons timetable and centre:

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

Start of the course: September 29, 2009.

 

Readings/Bibliography

12 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 three themes (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 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 three themes (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. In Addition to that, it is requested to study one medieval history handbook (of your own choice):  

- C.Azzara, Le civiltà del Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.

- M.Montanari, Storia Medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002.

- G.Piccinni, Il Medioevo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2004.

. A.Cortonesi, Il Medioevo. Profilo di un millennio, Roma, Carocci, 2009.

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: B.SCARCIA AMORETTI, Un altro Medioevo. Il quotidiano nell'Islam dal VII al XIII secolo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001.

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

- theme 5: S.GASPARRI, Prima delle nazioni. Popoli, etnie e regni fra Antichità e Medioevo, Roma, Carocci, 1997.

- theme 6: C.AZZARA, A.M.RAPETTI, La chiesa nel Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.

- theme 7: J.LE GOFF, Il cielo sceso in terra. Le radici medievali dell'Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004.

- theme 8: A.CORTONESI, G.PASQUALI, G.PICCINNI, Uomini e campagne nell'Italia medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002.

- theme 9: G.MILANI, I Comuni italiani, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005.

- theme 10: I.LAZZARINI, L'Italia degli Stati territoriali. Secoli XIII-XV, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003.

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, 9, 10. 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, 9, 10. In addition to that, it is requested to study one medieval history handbook (of your own choice): cfr. bibliography 12 cfu course.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

please refer to 12 cfu course (theme 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and medieval history handbook).

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