27276 - Laboratory (1) (Med.)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the workshop students will able to formulate a research path by collecting, selecting and organizing data and document information thanks to the specific tools acquired during the learning activity; they will be able to analyse in critical way documentary, material, iconographic sources in a diachronic perspective. They will able to write a short text autonomously. They will have achieved methodological rigour, and they will be accurate and precise.

Course contents

The workshop consists of a first part, which is common to all the students, focused on the examination of the bibliographic tools of general interest - also in their digital version – useful for the preparation of a degree thesis in historical disciplines (12 hours).

The second part of the workshop provides specific lessons on the four chronological areas which characterise the degree course in History (18 hours).

The activities related to the Middle Ages aim to illustrate the main sources, in order to provide students the tools and skills needed to prepare the final thesis.

For this purpose, the first part of the workshop will be dedicated to the analysis of the different kind of sources – together with the reading of some examples taken from the standard critical editions and, if possible, the direct reading of manuscripts -, and will also aim to identify the main interpretative keys.

In the second part of the workshop, students will be involved in a practical exercise: first of all, they will visit the State Archive of Bologna (one of the main institutes of preservation of the city, the richest in medieval historical sources), and on this occasion they will learn the modalities and the access tools to the heritage that is preserved there. Secondly, students will be accompanied in the critical reading of a small nucleus of sources related to a specific study case.

I part (10 hours)

• The final thesis in Medieval History; choice of the subject; historical sources and historiography; guide to the use of specific research tools
• Introduction to documentary historical sources: nature and main characteristics
• Reading, dating and interpretation of documentary historical sources (the private document)
• Reading, dating and interpretation of documentary historical sources (the public document)
• Material historical sources: nature and main characteristics

II part (8 hours)

• The archive as a place of historical research. The State Archive of Bologna and its heritage
• The archive as a place of historical research. The State Archive of Bologna: access and correct use of theresearch support tools
• From theory to practice. First approaches to a real case study: Teodorico Borgognoni, 13^thcentury bishop, surgeon and practitioner through sources (1)
• From theory to practice. First approaches to a real case study: Teodorico Borgognoni, 13^thcentury bishop, surgeon and practitioner through sources (2)

TIMETABLE

I PART (12 HOURS)

I TURNO

Mercoledì 10 ottobre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Mercoledì 17 ottobre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Venerdì 19 ottobre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Mercoledì 24 ottobre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Venerdì 26 ottobre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Mercoledì 31 ottobre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

II TURNO

Mercoledì 7 novembre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Venerdì 9 novembre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Mercoledì 14 novembre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Mercoledì 21 novembre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Venerdì 23 novembre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Mercoledì 28 novembre 2018 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

III TURNO

Lunedì 4 febbraio 2019 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Martedì 5 febbraio 2019 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Lunedì 11 febbraio 2019 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Lunedì 18 febbraio 2019 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Martedì 19 febbraio 2019 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

Lunedì 25 febbraio 2019 ore 13-15 AULA MORANDI

II PART ( 18 HOURS)

MEDIEVAL AREA

Aula Torresani, San Giovanni in Monte

LUN/MAR/MER ORE 14-17 dal 17 al 30 aprile 2019

Readings/Bibliography

• F. Senatore, Medioevo istruzioni per l’uso, Milano 2008

• Fonti medievali Un'antologia, by T. Di Carpegna Falconieri, A. Feniello, C. Grasso, Roma 2017

• Materials provided during the course

Teaching methods

During lessons, students will be invited to actively participate to the reading and analysis of the texts. The first two lessons of the second part of the Workshop will take place at the State Archive of Bologna. For the last part of the Workshop, students will be divided into small groups (2/4 people), and under the guidance of the tutors and the supervision of the teacher, they will make a real research, thanks to the knowledge they acquired during the lessons of the first part of the Workshop and during the 12 hours related to bibliographic tools.

 

The frequency of 25 hours out of 30 is mandatory to obtain eligibility

Assessment methods

At the end of the Workshop, students will have to write, in collaboration with the other members of their group, a paper 15 pages long (about 30000 words), and they will have to create a Power Point presentation that will be shown to the teacher, the tutor and the other students in order to expose the research activity critically.

On the basis of the paper, the teacher will analyse:

• the knowledge of the topics discussed during class
• the mastery of the tools and of the specific research methods for the Medieval area

The possession of such knowledge and skills, and in general the active participation to the proposed activities, will lead to an evaluation of eligibility.

Teaching tools

On the Workshop website will be provided the reproductions, transcriptions or the critical editions of the sources analysed during lessons.

Office hours

See the website of Francesca Roversi Monaco