73324 - MEDITERRANEO: CROCEVIA DI STORIE E DI CULTURE

Learning outcomes

The course intends to give a first general vision of the history of the Mediterranean world.

Few areas in the world equalize the historical density, the heterogeneity and the complexity of the social interaction that, for the proximity and the geographical mobility, they have emerged in the Mediterranean world.

The manifold realities that countersign it offer a point of privileged observation to face the study of the problem as belonging community to religions, languages, ethnic groups and different traditions can reciprocally interact in the time.

Course contents

The Mediterranean, a plural civilization

The representations of the Mediterranean and the evocations of his name

Outlines of the history of social, political and religious in Mediterreanean countries

Geography of the Mediterranean

To the east and west of the Mediterranean: stories of civilizations, its interpreters and his witnesses

Peoples and religions of the Mediterranean

The paths of history: travels and encounters between the Mediterranean and Europe

Along the routes of merchants

Living the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean: the South of Italy

Problems of the present, future prospects: the Israelian-Palestinian conflict

The walls of sand: the question Sarawi

Educate in Gaza. Peace projects

Today the Mediterranean, between history and future

Readings/Bibliography

The frequenting ones will prepare him on the notes, on the material given to lesson and on the reading three of the following texts:

D. ABULAFIA, I regni del Mediterraneo occidentale dal 1200 al 1500. La lotta per il dominio, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.

L'alternativa mediterranea, a cura di F. Cassano e D. Zolo, Feltrinelli, Milano 2007. 

F. BRAUDEL, Civiltà e imperi del Mediterraneo nell'età di Filippo II, Einaudi, Torino 1953 (ed. orig. Paris, 1949).

F. BRAUDEL, Il Mediterraneo. Lo spazio e la storia. Gli uomini e la tradizione, Newton & Compton editori, Roma 2002, Prefazione di L. Gatto (ed. orig. Paris, 1977, ed. ital. Milano, 1992).

S. BONO, Il Mediterraneo. Da Lepanto a Barcellona, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia 2013 (I ed. 1999).

S. BONO, Un altro Mediterraneo. Una storia comune fra scontri e integrazione, Salerno, Roma 2008.

F. CARDINI,  Europa e Islam. Storia di un malinteso, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003.

Europa e Mediterraneo tra Medioevo e prima età moderna. L'osservatorio italiano, a cura di S. Gensini, Pacini 1992.

Lingue di mare, Lingue di terra, a cura di C. Ferrini,  Mesogea, Messina 2000.

Gli ideali del Mediterraneo. Storia, filosofia e letteratura nella cultura europea, a cura di G. Duby, Messina, Mesogea, 2001.

L'Europa e il Mediterraneo. Partner o vicini scomodi?, a cura di F. Zallio, Milano, EGEA, 2004.

S. GUARRACINO, Mediterraneo: immagini, storie e teorie da Omero a Braudel, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2007.

M. FUSCHI, Il Mediterraneo. Geografia della complessità, Franco Angeli, Milano 2012 (I ed. 2008).

J. HEERS, I barbareschi. Corsari del Mediterraneo, Salerno 2003

B. LEWIS, Gli arabi nella storia, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2001.

B. LEWIS, L'Europa e l'islam, Laterza Roma-Bari 1995.

Il Mediterraneo: figure e incontri,  Jaca Book, Milano 2005.

Il Mediterraneo: ancora Mare Nostrum?, a cura di M. Aymard-G. Barberini-S. Maffettone,  Luiss University Press, Roma 2004.Mediterraneo, il mare delle complessità, CRES 1996

Mediterraneo medievale. Cristiani, musulmani ed eretici tra Europa e Oltremare (secoli IX.-XIII), a cura di M. Meschini, V&Puniversita 2001

The student will also present a final report on topics will be addressed in class and that will be the subject of specific research activities.

The not frequenting must get ready around four above-mentioned volumes.

Teaching methods

Activities to promote active participation of students. There are educational visit to the city and the main museums of Bologna.

Assessment methods

The test consists in an individual oral interview and evaluation of research activities.

The exam consists of an oral interview with the objective of evaluating the critical skills and methodological gained by the student, who will be invited to confront the texts covered during the course. In particular, we will evaluate the student's ability to be able to move within the sources and bibliographical material in order to be able to identify in them the useful information that will enable them to illustrate the similarities and cultural areas of the discipline. The achievement by the student of an organic vision of the issues addressed in joint lesson critical to their use, demonstrating ownership of a mastery of expression and specific language will be assessed with a mark of excellence. Knowledge for the more mechanical and / or mnemonic of matter, synthesis and analysis of non-articulating and / or correct language but not always appropriate assessments will lead to discrete; training gaps and / or inappropriate language - although in a context of knowledge minimal examination of the material - will lead to votes that will not exceed the sufficiency. Training gaps, inappropriate language, lack of guidance within the reference materials offered during the course that will not be adversely affected.

Teaching tools

Frontal lessons supported by performances in power point, from video, documentaries, articles, essays, seminars, research activities and visits to museums and city.

A part of the didactic material provided during the course is also available through a username and password at AMS Campus - AlmaDL - University of Bologna.

Office hours

See the website of Beatrice Borghi