00929 - Modern History

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student acquires general knowledge of the themes and problems related to the Early Modern age (mid-fifteenth-mid-nineteenth century), as well as the awareness of the periodization criteria. He/she has particular knowledge of a broad internal theme of the early modern age, also in relation to the historiographical debate and the diversity and multiplicity of original sources. He is able to recognize the complexity of each historiographic construction by analyzing historical documents and authors and is able to frame the main historical problems according to the development of the historiographical debate.

Course contents

The course will consist of a series of lectures, of an institutional nature, on international relations, religious dynamics (Reformation, Counter-Reformation), economic dynamics (development of production and trade), social and institutional dynamics (the diversity of political regimes in Europe: from Tsarist Russia to the Ottoman Empire, from Spanish polycentrism to English democracy ...).

Particular attention will be given to the history of the Ottoman Empire

Readings/Bibliography

(A)

The study of materials offered during the course, for the general or institutional section, must be complemented by the knowledge of a university handbook among:

- V. Criscuolo, Storia moderna, Bologna, Pearson, 2019;

- Introduzione alla storia moderna, a cura di M. Bellabarba - V. Lavenia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018;

- G. Ricuperati – F. Ieva, Manuale di storia moderna, Novara, Utet, 2012.

 

(B)

and a reading from:

- P. Prodi, La storia moderna, Bologna, il Mulino, 2005;

- F. Chabod, Lezioni di metodo storico, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006;

- M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Torino, Einaudi, 2009;

 

(C)

Knowledge of the handbook and reading material will be supplemented by a more in-depth text to be chosen from:

- P. Anderson, Lo stato assoluto. Origini ed evoluzione dell'assolutismo occidentale e orientale, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2014;

- W. Behring, Storia culturale del clima, Torino, Bollati Boringheri, 2016;

- J. Stoye, L'assedio di Vienna, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016;

- S. Bono, Schiavi. Una storia mediterranea (XVI-XIX), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016;

- M. Sahlins, Isole di storia. Società e mito nei mari del Sud, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2016;

- G. Mazzacurati, Il rinascimento dei moderni. La crisi culturale del XVI secolo e la negazione delle origini, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016;

- J. Glete, La guerra sul mare, 1500-1650, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017;

- M. Kneale, Storia di Roma in sette saccheggi, Torino, Bollati Boringheri, 2018;

- P.G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal Cinquecento a oggi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2018;

- T. Kaufmann, I redenti e i dannati. Una storia della Riforma, Torino, Einaudi, 2018;

- F. Cardini, Il sultano e lo zar. Due imperi a confronto, Roma, Salerno, 2018;

- G. Vigarello, L'abito femminile. Una storia culturale, Torino, Einaudi, 2018;

- Guerre ed eserciti nell'età moderna, a cura di P. Bianchi - P. Del Negro, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018;

- D.R. Headrick, Il predominio dell'Occidente. Tecnologia, ambiente, imperialismo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018;

- G. Brunelli, La santa impresa. Le crociate del papa in Ungheria (1595-1601), Roma, Salerno, 2018;

- E. Ivetic, Storia dell'Adriatico. Un mare e la sua civiltà, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;

- F. Bethencourt, Razzismi. Dalle crociate al XX secolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;

- M. Formica, Roma, Romae. Una capitale in età moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019;

- V. Ferrone, Il mondo dell'Illuminismo. Storia di una rivoluzione culturale, Torino, Einaudi, 2019;

- L. Braida, L'autore assente. L'anonimato nell'editoria italian del Settecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019;

- G. Turi, Guerre civili in Italia, 1796-1799, Roma, Viella, 2019;

- L. Maschili Migliorini, 500 giorni. Napoleone dall'Elba a Sant'Elena, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019;

- C. Aydin, Il lungo Ottocento. Una storia politica internazionale, Torino, Einaudi, 2019;

- A. Savio, Tra spezie e spie. Filippo Pigafetta nel Mediterraneo del Cinquecento, Roma, Viella, 2020;

- M. Pellegrini, Savonarola. Profezia e martirio nell'età delle guerre d'Italia, Roma, Salerno, 2020;

- Immigrati e forestieri in Italia nell'Età moderna, a cura di E. Pagano, Roma, Viella, 2020;

- M. Verga, Alla morte del re. Sovranità e leggi di successione nell'Europa dei secoli XVII-XVIII, Roma, Salerno, 2020;

- M. Ferrari, L'educazione esclusiva. Pedagogie della distinzione sociale tra XV e XXI secolo, Brescia, Scholé, 2020;

- M. Lambert, Crociata e jihad. Origini, storia, conseguenze, Torino, Bollati Boringheri, 2020;

- F. Benigno - D. Di Bartolomeo, Napoleone deve morire. L'idea di ripetizione storica nella rivoluzione francese, Roma, Salerno, 2020;

- R. Blackburn, Il crogiolo americano. Schiavitù, emancipazione e diritti umani, Torino, Einaudi, 2020;

- A. Mikhail, L'ombra di Dio. Selim il sultano, il suo Impero ottomano e la creazione del mondo moderno, Torino, Einaudi, 2021.

 

 

(D)

and the volume:

Simona Negruzzo, La «cristiana impresa». L'Europa di fronte all'Impero ottomano alle soglie del XVII secolo, Milano, Cisalpino, 2019.

 

For all students it is also necessary to use a historical atlas (for instance: Atlante storico. Cronologia della storia universale, Milan, Garzanti, 2003).

 

FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING:
The preparation includes the points A, B, C and D.

To the point A is provided to the written verification online (ZOOM+EOL), while for the points B, C and D that oral.The participation, ascertained in the oral, in three

seminars of the cycle: Sources and methodologies of historical research, will replace the in-depth reading of point C.

FOR STUDENTS NOT ATTENDING:
The preparation includes the points A, B, C and D.

To the point A is provided to the written verification online (ZOOM+EOL), while for the points B, C and D that oral.

Regarding D you will have to agree with the professor's study an additional volume to the one reported in the program.

It is appropriate for students not attending agree on the exam program directly with the teacher during office hours or by email, so choose it in a relevant on the basis of their studies.

 

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminar activities remotely and / or in the classroom

Assessment methods

The final exam will be divided into two tests:

- a written preliminary test of one hour  (open and closed questions with answers) online (ZOOM+EOL);

- an oral interview lasting an average of 20-30 minutes.

In the written test (or oral test) will be assigned a number of closed and open questions designed to examine the knowledge of the events and characters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, the ability to place them in a logical and chronological span of arguing critically. The test is passed with the attainment of sufficiency.

During the oral test will be evaluated in-depth knowledge of the issues dealt with in each of the essential texts for the completeness of the program; the ability to recognize, in every text, the sources used and historiographical reconstruction; the expressive mastery and specific language.
The lack of knowledge of one of the texts in the program will cause a negative rating.

Gaps in knowledge of the texts in the program, poor ability to recognize sources and historiographical reconstruction, very inappropriate language will involve an assessment of not more than sufficiency.
Knowledge mostly mechanical and / or mnemonics, capacity of synthesis and analysis limited, proper language, but not always appropriate, provide for a fair rating.
Full knowledge of the texts, good capacity of synthesis and analysis, fully valid and appropriate language will allow a good to excellent.

For the final assessment will take into account the outcome of the written (or oral) and oral test.

 

Information about the dates of the calls and how to apply the examination will be regularly published on the web page teachers: http://www.unibo.it/docenti/simona.negruzzo.

Teaching tools

Powerpoint presentations

Office hours

See the website of Simona Negruzzo