- Docente: Berardo Pio
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
History and Oriental Studies (cod. 8845)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History and Oriental Studies (cod. 8845)
Course contents
The crisis of universal powers; the medieval commune in Italy; the rise of national monarchies; origins and character of Italian despotism; the Italian territorial states (XIV-XV centuries).
The Hundred Years War..
Lessons starting: February 1, 2016 (Aula Fumagalli, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà).
Hours:
Monday, h. 09-11.
Tuesday, h. 09-11.
Wednesday, h. 09-11.
Readings/Bibliography
Ph. Contamine, La guerra dei cent'anni, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013.
It also requires a reading choice between the reports published in Sperimentazioni di governo nell'Italia centrosettentrionale nel processo storico dal primo comune alla signoria, a cura di M.C. De Matteis e B. Pio, Bologna 2011.
G.G. Merlo, Basso Medioevo, Novara 2010 (only for students not attending).
Teaching methods
Lessons (general approach to the subject); reading and comment of the principal sources.
Assessment methods
The final exam will be an oral one, with questions aimed to verify the student's knowledge of the themes discussed during frontal lessons (only for students that participated in classwork) as well as those treated in the program's texts. Among the elements that concur in the final evaluation there are: detailed knowledge of the book's content, property of language, and especially the capacity of organizing the information into complex answers showing expositive and critical skills.
Links to further information
http://unibo.academia.edu/BerardoPio
Office hours
See the website of Berardo Pio