- Docente: Raffaele Savigni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
History, Preservation and Enhancement of Artistic and Archaeological Heritage and Landscape (cod. 8836)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Library and Archive Science (cod. 8838)
Learning outcomes
Aim of this discipline is to provide the student with a patrimony of knowledge and abilities, able to lead him to understand (with the help of written sources) the formation of the cultural Heritage and of the monumental and documental patrimony, in Italy, Europe and the Whole Mediterranean area. At the end of the course, students must acquire deep knowledge of the political-institutional processes and of the socio-institutional interactions which shaped medieval Europe in its particuilar identity and historical memory, and they must be able to apply this knowledge to a specific urban or territorial area or to a specific archival and librarian context and to understand the cultural Heritage of an institution. They must be able to communicate the results of a bibliographical research or of a critical analysis of written sources, and to approach the study of new topics on the basis of the knowledge acquired during the course.
Course contents
Cities and Territories in Italian and European Middle Ages: general characters and regional specificities.
Civil and ecclesiastical organization, economic rooms. Kingdoms, Comitati, Signorie, Feuds, Dioceses, Pievi, Parrochies, Urban Autonomies.
Typologies of towns: capital cities, episcopal cities, emporia, mercantile country, sea-towns. Castles and Villages.
Kingship, aristocracy, ruling class in medieval towns. City and coutryside.
Culture, writing and production of documents: bishoprics, chatedral chapter, monasteries, cities.
Cultural memory in medieval churches and towns: chronicles, laudes civitatum, libri pontificales, statutes, iconography of power. Urban rituals and civic consciousness.
Case studies: the towns of Ravenna, Bologna, Lucca, Genoa. The "Libri pontificales", the "Breviarium ecclesiae Ravennatis", the "Annales ianuenses" of Caffaro,
Students will be guided towards a direct approach to libraries and archives, with the aim of a better contact of primary sources.
Readings/Bibliography
Paper on an aspect of the course (10-15 pages) and one of these books:
M. Bottazzi, Italia medievale epigrafica : l'alto medioevo attraverso le scritture incise (secc. 9.-11.), Trieste, Cerm, 2012
F. Bocchi, Per antiche strade: caratteri e aspetti delle città medievali, Roma, Viella, 2013
Bologna e il secolo XI: storia, cultura, economia, istituzioni, diritto, a cura di G. Feo e F. Roversi Monaco, Bologna, BUP, 2011
M. Mitterauer, J. Morrissey, Pisa nel Medioevo. Potenza sul mare e motore di cultura, Roma, Viella, 2015
Due volumi della collana “Il Medioevo nelle città italiane”, Spoleto, Cisam, 2009-2013, ad esempio G. Milani, Bologna, Spoleto 2012; P. Guglielmotti, Genova, Spoleto 2013.
Gli studenti del corso di laurea archivistico-librario porteranno una tesina concordata col docente (10-15 cartelle) and one of these books:
Il patrimonio documentario della Chiesa di Lucca: prospettive di ricerca: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Lucca, Archivio arcivescovile, 14-15 novembre 2008), a cura di Sergio Pagano e Pierantonio Piatti, Firenze, Sismel, 2010
Civiltà comunale: libro, scrittura, documento: atti del Convegno (Genova, 8-11 novembre 1988), Genova, Società ligure di storia patria, 1989
La memoria delle chiese: cancellerie vescovili e culture notarili nell'Italia centro-settentrionale, secoli X-XIII, a cura di P. Cancian, Torino, Scriptorium,1995
Le scritture del Comune : amministrazione e memoria nelle città dei secoli XII e XIII, a cura di G. Albini, Torino, Scriptorium,1998
I Libri del Silenzio. Scrittura e spiritualità sulle tracce della storia dell'Ordine camaldolese a Ravenna, dalle origini al XVI secolo, a cura di C. Giuliani, Ravenna, Longo, 2013
Mille anni di storia camaldolese negli archivi dell'Emilia-Romagna. Atti del convegno di Ravenna (11 ottobre 2012), a cura di G. Zacchè, Modena, Mucchi, 2013
I registri vescovili dell'Italia settentrionale, secoli 12.-15. : atti del Convegno di studi, Monselice, 24-25 novembre 2000, a cura di Attilio Bartoli Langeli e Antonio Rigon, Roma, Herder, 2003
or a different reading chosen with the professor.
Non-attending students are requested to discuss their
program with the professor, and to prepare, in addition to the
assignments:
F. Franceschi-I. Taddei, Le città italiane nel Medioevo: XII-XIV secolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012, or
P. Cammarosano, Italia medievale: struttura e geografia delle fonti scritte, Roma, Carocci, 2000, eventualmente integrati, se necessario, con un manuale di storia medievale (ad es. G. Vitolo, Medioevo: i caratteri originali di un'età di transizione, Milano, Sansoni)
Teaching methods
Seminar lections. Special attention will be given to the reading, analysis and discussion of historical sources (narrative, documental, archaeological sources). Sources and bibliography will be available to students during class.
Assessment methods
Paperwork (10-15 pages) on an aspect of the course and oral examination. The test will consist in an oral examination, which will take part after the end of the lessons. It will be divided in 3 principal questions. The partecipation showed by the student during the lessons or during discussion in the forum will be considered for the final mark, as well as partecipation to seminars or conferences and lectures about Middle Ages organized or suggested by the teacher. The student, in order to pass the examination, will have to show to have understood the topics of the course, to be able to identify the social-economical, cultural and istitutional transformations in Middle Ages and to be able to use in a critical way the sources (at least in italian language) available in the wesite Alma-DLCampus http://campus.cib.unibo.it/, as well as the material indicated by the teacher.
In order to obtain a high mark, the student will have to demonstrate to have a good knowledge of the specific vocabulary, also latin, to be able to easly move through the different topics and sources using the appropriate links, and confront critically the different sources concerning the same topic. If the student appears not to be able to move through the principal subjects studied and not to be able to order in time and space the most important historical events, he won't be able to succeed in the examination. The (at least) generical knowledge of the principal subjects, even without the use of an appropriate vocabulary, will be sufficient, and the student will pass.
The students who followed regularly the lessons, could write a a paper (of approximately ten-fifteen pages) on a topic agreed with the professor (the paper must be submitted before the exam) and containing also the list of principal sources and bibliography used. The discussion of the paper is one of the three questions that will be examined during the final test.
Teaching tools
Seminar lections based on the reading and analysis of historical sources (narrative, documental, monumental, iconographical, cartographical sources). Sources will be listed at the beginning of the course. Guidance towards a selective use of the web for scientific purposes. Students will be guided towards a direct approach to libraries and archives, with the aim of a better contact of primary sources.
Links to further information
http://www.unibo.it/docenti/raffaele.savigni
Office hours
See the website of Raffaele Savigni