- Docente: Salvatore Cosentino
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
HISTORY AND PRESERVATION OF THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE (cod. 0890)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in RESEARCH, DOCUMENTATION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE (cod. 0887)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in HISTORY AND PRESERVATION OF THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE (cod. 0890)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at conveying to the student the knowledge of mentality, values and structure of the Byzantine society, as well as the features of its Byzantine economy (landscape, money, factors influencing production, distribution and demand). At the end of the course the student must be able to set critically his learning outcomes in the framework of the socio-economic history of late antique and eastern medieval Mediterranean. Moreover, he must be able to read the specialized literature in at least one foreign language.
Course contents
Title of the course: The private life in Byzantium in the
eleventh century: family, love and feelings in the "Strategicon" by
Cecaumenos.
The course aims at investigating the family and intimate aspects of
the Byzantine mentality through the pages of the III book of the
Strategicon by Cecaumenos.
Readings/Bibliography
- Cecaumeno,Raccomandazioni e consigli di un galantuomo
(Strategicon), testo critico, traduzione e note a cura di M. D.
Spadaro, Alessandria 1998.
- A. P. Kazhdan,Bisanzio e la sua civiltà, trad. it.
Roma - Bari 1983.
- E. Patlagean,Bisanzio, X-XI
secoloinLa vita privata dall'impero romano
all'anno Mille, a cura di Ph. Ariès e G. Duby, trad. it. Roma -
Bari 2001 (ed. orig. 2001), pp. 420-483.
- A.-M. Talbot,La donnainL'uomo
bizantino, a cura di G. Cavallo, Roma - Bari 1992, pp.
167-207.
- A. E. Laiou,Mariage, amour et parenté à Byzance aux XIe
- XIIIe siècles, Paris 1992.
- A Companion to Byzantium, ed. by L. James, Chichester
2010 (contributions by C. Hennessy, pp. 80-92; M. Hatzaki, pp.
93-107; M. Hinterberger, pp. 123-134; S. Tougher, pp.
135-145).
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Paperwork (15-20 pages) concerning an aspect which has been dealt with during class and oral examination about the notions regarding the course.
Teaching tools
Reading, translation and commentary of the III book of the Strategicon by Cecaumenos and of other sources related to it.
Office hours
See the website of Salvatore Cosentino