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75830 - Medieval Archaeology and History of Art (1)

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Docente: Paola Porta
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-ANT/08
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Humanities (cod. 8850)

    Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0958)
    First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0962)

Learning outcomes

At the and of course students know Medieval Art and Archaeology from Late Antiquity to Medieval Age (Vth/VIth- XIIIth centuries) and the History of some important Churches and ecclesiastic complexes (Topography, Architecture, Excavations and artistic Features).

Course contents

Lombards in Italy. History, archaeology, cemeteries, artistic features.

The course offers to students a up to date knowledge of Lombards in Italy through new excavations and researchs.

Course beginning: Thursday, September 29.

Readings/Bibliography

1- Teacher’s lessons.

  1. P. DELOGU, I Longobardi: storia di un popolo e di un regno, in I Longobardi. Dalla caduta dell’impero all’alba dell’Italia, a cura di G. P. Brogiolo, A. Chavarria Arnau, Milano 2007, pp. 33- 39.

  2. C. AZZARA, Il regno dei Longobardi in Italia, in C. Azzara, Le invasioni barbariche, Bologna 2003, pp. 97- 109.

  3. T. VIDA, La ricerca e le ultime scoperte longobarde in Pannonia: una sintesi, in Necropoli longobarde in Italia. Indirizzi della ricerca e nuovi dati, a cura di E. Possenti, Atti del Convegno Internazionale (26- 28 settembre 2011), Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio 2014, pp. 55- 68.

  4. E. POSSENTI, Necropoli longobarde in Italia: lo stato delle ricerche, Ibidem, pp. 33- 51.

    6- M. ROTTOLI, E. CASTIGLIONI, Legni, tessuti, cuoi e altri materiali organici conservati nelle tombe longobarde dell’Italia settentrionale: lo stato delle ricerche, Ibidem, pp. 516- 529.

Students inable to attend lessons:

Bibliography listed above from 2 to 6 and P. PORTA, Artigianato orafo longobardo: il caso di Spilamberto, in Luoghi, artigiani e modi di produzione nell’oreficeria antica, Ornamenta 4, a cura di I. Baldini, A. L. Morelli, Bologna 2012, pp. 339- 353.

 

Teaching methods

Lessons with power point, Seminars and study Visits.

Assessment methods

Final text consists in oral Examination about subjects of lessons.

Teaching tools

Power Point, PC, Photocopies.

Office hours

See the website of Paola Porta