39545 - History of Family and Society in the Middle Ages (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will have the ability to evaluate the historiographic orientations as regards the subject matter of the course, and they will be able to read and interpret hand written as well as published documents, they will learn to contextualize general issues by working on specific research cases. Students will be aware of the importance and historicization  of concepts linked with both society and family, and will be able to interpret the lexicon as well as  its analytical categories.

Course contents

«Congregare populationem». From Incastellamentoto medieval New towns in Europe and Italy

Students will be offered all the relevant knowledge to understand the motives and agents who took part in Castle, Villenuove, Villefranches, Villas nuevas  of Italian and European Middle Ages. Organized as a seminar, the course involves the reading of archive documents  from the 10th to the 14th centuries. The analysis of these documents will implement the analisis of case studies as regards the real or  presumptive motivations of its founders and their political, economical, social and demographic aspects.

Readings/Bibliography

Only 220 pages among the books listed:

1. La costruzione del dominio cittadino sulle campagne. Italia centro-settentrionale, secoli XII-XIV, a cura di R. Mucciarelli, G. Piccinni, G. Pinto, Siena, Protagon, 2009

2. Borghi nuovi e borghi franchi nel processo di costruzione dei distretti comunali nell'Italia centro-settentrionale (secoli XII-XIV), a cura di R. Comba, F. Panero, G. Pinto, Centro Internazionale di studi sugli insediamenti medievali, Società per gli studi storici, archeologici ed artistici della provincia di Cuneo, Cherasco - Cuneo 2002

3. F. Panero, Comuni e borghi franchi nel Piemonte medievale, Bologna, Clueb 1988

4.  Paola Guglielmotti, Comunità e territorio. Villaggi del Piemonte medievale, Roma, Viella, 2001

 5. Paola Guglielmotti, Ricerche sull'organizzazione del territorio nella Liguria medievale , Firenze, Firenze Univ. Press (on line in Reti medievali : http://rm.univr.it/e-book/titoli/guglielmotti.htm)

Teaching methods

Seminar

Assessment methods

This exam is an oral exam through which the critical and methodological abilities acquired by the student during the course will be evaluated; the student will be invited to discuss the issues addressed during the course. The following abilities will be evaluated positively: a student's ability to familiarize him/herself with bibliographical material and sources with the aim of selecting information from the literature that can be used to illustrate  aspects and areas of culture pertaining to the discipline.

The ability to reach a critical and systematic vision of the discipline and the ability to demonstrate the possession of a descriptive command and of appropriate  field-specific language will be rewarded with a mark of excellence.

A mechanical and/or mnemonic knowledge of the language, a superficial ability to synthesize and analyse information, and/or a language that is correct but not always appropriate will lead to  a moderate mark; knowledge gaps and/or inappropriate language – albeit in a context of minimal knowledge of the material required for the exam – will not lead to a pass mark.

Knowledge gaps, inappropriate language and a lack of familiarity with the bibliographical material provided during the course  will not receive a pass mark.

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