- Docente: Paola Galetti
- Credits: 10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0264)
Learning outcomes
Students will either come to know the essential topics of Middle Ages and its historiography, and to get the competence to contestualize, in a synchronic and a diachronic way, and to critically examinate a phenomenon or an event, to distinguish the different typologies of historical sources.
Course contents
10 CFU COURSE
The course will investigate some general themes to qualify Middle Age:
1) Middle Ages idea. The Middle Age in the contemporary culture.
2) Man and its environment.
3) The Western world and the others. Islam in the Middle Ages.
4) Social changes and ideologies.
5) Carolingian Empire.
6) Church, churches and religious movements.
7) The "Comuni".
8) State contructional processes in Europe and Italy.
1st semester course
Lessons timetable and centre:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 13-15, Aula II, Via Zamboni 38
START OF THE COURSE: September 29, 2008
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5 CFU COURSE
The course will investigate some general themes to qualify the Middle Ages:
1) Middle Ages Idea. The Middle Ages in the contemporary culture. 2) Man and its environment. 3) The Western world and the others. Islam in the Middle Ages. 4) Social changes and ideologies.
1st semester course - 1st cycle
LESSONS TIMETABLE and CENTRE:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 13-15, Aula II, Via Zamboni 38
START OF THE COURSE: September 29, 2008
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6 CFU COURSE
The course will investigate some generale themes to qualify Middle Ages:
1) The Middle Age idea. The Middle Age in the contemporary culture. 2) Man and its environment. 3) The Western world and the others. Islam in the Middle Ages. 4) Social changes and ideologies. 5) The Carolingian empire.
1st semester course, 1st cycle
LESSONS TIMETABLE and CENTRE
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 13-15, Aula II, Via Zamboni 38
START OF THE COURSE: September 29, 2008
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2 CFU ADDITIONAL COURSE
(Please contact the teacher)
Check for the bibliography in the next paragraph.
Readings/Bibliography
10 CFU COURSE
Compulsory bibliography for all students (theme number 2): P. GALETTI, Uomini e case nel Medioevo tra Occidente e Oriente , Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2008.
For attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study two themes (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. It is also requested the knowledge of the main events of Medieval history, presented during the lessons.
For not-attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study two themes (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. In addition to that, it is requested to study the volume: C.AZZARA, Le civiltà del Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
Bibliography:
- theme 1 : G. SERGI, L'idea di Medioevo. Tra senso comune e pratica storica, Roma, Donzelli, 1998 + P. DELOGU, Il Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.
- theme 3 : A.DUCELLIER, F.MICHEAU, L'Islam nel Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino,
- theme 4 : G. DUBY, Lo specchio del feudalesimo. Sacerdoti, guerrieri e lavoratori, Roma-Bari, Laterza,1998.
- theme 5 : A.BARBERO, Carlo Magno. Un padre dell'Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000.
- theme 6 : G.M.CANTARELLA, V.POLONIO, R.RUSCONI, Chiesa, chiese, movimenti religiosi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007.
- theme 7 : G. MILANI, I Comuni italiani, Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2005.
- theme 8 : I. LAZZARINI, L'Italia degli Stati territoriali. Secoli XIII-XV, Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2003.
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5 CFU COURSE
Compulsory bibliography for all students (theme number 2): P. GALETTI, Uomini e case nel Medioevo tra Occidente e Oriente , Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2008.
For attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study one theme (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4. It is also requested the knowledge of the main events of Medieval history, presented during the lessons.
For not-attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study one theme (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4. In addition to that, it is requested to study the volume: C.AZZARA, Le civiltà del Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
Bibliography: please refer to 10 cfu course ( 1,3,4).
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6 CFU COURSE
Compulsory bibliography for all students (theme number 2): P. GALETTI, Uomini e case nel Medioevo tra Occidente e Oriente , Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2008.
For attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study one theme (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5. It is also requested the knowledge of the main events of medieval history, presented during the lessons. For theme 5: M.BECHER, Carlo Magno, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000.
For not-attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study one theme (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5. For 5 theme: M.Becher, Carlo Magno, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000. In addition to that, it is requested to study the volume: C.AZZARA, Le civiltà del Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
Bibliography: please refer to 10 cfu course ( 1,3,4).
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2 CFU ADDITIONAL COURSE
It is obligatory to study two themes (of your own choice) in: AA.VV., Storia Medievale, Roma, Donzelli, 1998 ( and reprints).
Teaching methods
The course is based on frontal lessons concerning general medieval history and some investigations on qualifing Middle Ages themes, enriched by the presentation and comment of different typologies of written and material sources. Excursions, visits to exibitions, movie visions will take place.
Assessment methods
ORAL EXAM.
The minimum standard of learing required to the student is to be able to place in the correct chronological order the most important events of the Middle Ages, to justify the causal connections between the different events and to investigate the themes that will be proposed by the teacher during the lessons.
Teaching tools
Overhead projector, video and slide projector, audiovisual aids and power-point
Office hours
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