28955 - History of Medieval Europe (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Docente: Leardo Mascanzoni
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: M-STO/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)

Learning outcomes

The student at the end of the course is able to orientate himself in the history of  euromediterranean basin. He is also able, with critic capabilities, to operate into complex theoretical contexts. He is too able to recognize links between historical memory and contemporary  culture and between history and other human sciences. The student at the end of the course has critic  and experienced knowledge of constituting phases of Europe, by means of interactions between  historical phenomenons  and spatial definitions. He knows the most up-to-date scientific international  framework, the specific instruments and the suitable sources. He is, besides, able to exploit different cultures and to make known with written or oral form.

Course contents

The course will concerne some of the most important problems of european history, beginning from the ideas of «Middle Ages» and «Europe». As exemple, the teacher will develop the notion of pilgrimage and particularly of one of the most important medieval european pilgrimage: Santiago de Compostela. In the limits of the possible, will be indicated historiography trends and recent bibliographies about the most considerable questions

Readings/Bibliography

1) Glauco Maria CANTARELLA, L'Europa, una creazione medievale, in Le garzantine. Enciclopedia del Medioevo, Milano 2007, pp. 617-619; Jacques LE GOFF, Il cielo sceso in terra. Le radici medievali dell'Europa, Traduzione di Francesco Maiello, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004 (fare l'Europa); Leardo MASCANZONI, San Giacomo: il guerriero e il pellegrino, Spoleto, Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2000 (Uomini e mondi medievali. Collana del Centro italiano di studi sul basso medioevo-Accademia Tudertina 2) (just some passages of the first part of the text will be followed). The students who don't attend lessons must add the reading for examination of: Stefano GASPARRI, Prima delle nazioni. Popoli, etnìe e regni fra Antichità e Medioevo, Roma, Carocci Editore, 1997 (Università/205  Argomenti di storia medievale).

The lessons will start on monday 19 march 2012 in order to this time-table:

monday h. 13-15 Hall 2, Department of Paleography and Medieval History (=DPM) , Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte, 2

thursday h. 15-17 Hall "Fumagalli" DPM

friday h. 15-17 Hall "Fumagalli" DPM

Teaching methods

The teacher wull make frontal lessons. Written accounts are not foreseen.

Assessment methods

Basic inspection will be a personal examination with an oral conversation. The teacher will make some questions about both points of the programme.

Teaching tools

As direct help for didactics there are essential and traditional tools. As indirect help the use of pc will be useful.

Office hours

See the website of Leardo Mascanzoni