HISTORY OF BYZANTINE ITALY

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
STORIA DELL'ITALIA BIZANTINA SP.
Course code
FM0223 (AF:308106 AR:170082)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
M-STO/01
Period
1st Semester
Where
VENEZIA
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The course of "History of Byzantine Italy" is part of the medieval teachings proposed in the three years and the master's degree. In particular, it completes the information acquired through the "Byzantine History" by enlarging the framework of the notions to the specific theme of Italy during the centuries of imperial rule. The teaching covers the political events, the organization of the state, the testimonies left by the Byzantines in Italy and the artifacts imported from the East now visible in public collections.
The main result expected from learning is to ensure that students know a historical reality that is an integral part of the Italian Middle Ages.
There are no prerequisites.
The course covers:
1. General knowledge of Byzantine history up to the eleventh century and the history of Byzantine Italy
2. the military history of Byzantine Italy
3. Testimonies of the Byzantine presence in Italy.
1) Notes and materials of the lessons
2) M. Gallina, Bisanzio. Storia di un impero (secoli IV-XIII), Carocci (up to the fifth chapter included); or G. Ostrogorsky, Storia dell'impero bizantino, Einaudi (up to the fifth chapter included) or G. Ravegnani, Introduzione alla storia bizantina, Il Mulino (up to the sixth chapter included)
3) G. Ravegnani, I Bizantini in Italia, Il Mulino or alternatively S. Cosentino, Storia dell'Italia bizantina (VI-XI secolo) da Giustiniano ai Normanni, Bononia University Press.
4) G. Ravegnani, Andare per l'Italia bizantina, Il Mulino.
4) Bisanzio e l'Occidente medievale, Il Mulino.
The assessment of learning is carried out only with oral exams at the end of the lessons and in subsequent exams.
The teaching method foresees only frontal lessons.
Italian
oral
This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 18/09/2019