- Docente: Paola Degni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in HISTORY AND PRESERVATION OF THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE (cod. 0890)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at describing typologies, functions, uses of the writing and its relationship with the image (for instance in manuscript and printed book, in the exsposed writings, etc.) in West, from Antiquity to the Renaissance, with some references to the modern and contemporary period.
Course contents
The course intends to explain the ideological and symbolic meaning of the writing from Antiquity to the Middle Age, in its relationship of contiguity with the image, in East and West manuscript production, with references to the exsposed writing.
Readings/Bibliography
The program is recommended only to students attending:
1. O. Paecht, La miniatura medievale, Torino, Bollati
Boringhieri, 1984 (selected chapters).
2. A. Petrucci, La scrittura. Ideologia e rappresentazione,
Torino, Einaudi, 1986 (selected chapters).
3. A. Petrucci, Prima lezione di paleografia, Roma-Bari,
Laterza, 2002.
4. G. R. Cardona, Antropologia della scrittura, Torino,
UTET, 2009.
The students unable to attendance must contact the teacher at the
beginning of the course to establish an alternative program.
Assessment methods
The oral exam aims at testing the skills in the comprehension and knowledge of the recommended bibliography.
Office hours
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