MODERN HISTORY 1
- Academic year
- 2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA MODERNA 1
- Course code
- LT0870 (AF:310666 AR:168647)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Subdivision
- Class 1
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- M-STO/02
- Period
- 1st Semester
- Course year
- 1
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
It will be therefore outlined the process wich has marked the course of Modern Age, as geographical discoveries and colonizations, the Reformation and the Age of the Counter-reformation, the scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Revolutions.
At the end of course the student must demonstrate a) to be able to articulate a coherent historical picture of the events which, in the long and medium term, are at the origin of the development of the contemporary world; b) knowledge and ability to understand adequately the origins and dynamics of the development of European diversity; c) to differentiate into a key comparative different factors of historical, political, cultural, religious of European civilization; d) to have an idea of the different types of historical research in relation to the kind of historical sources used, e) knowledge of working with awareness of historiographical categories used in the lectures; f) to be able to reflect, with an appropriate degree of autonomy, on specific cases related to the course topics.
Expected learning outcomes
• Knowledge of the methods of analysis of the specific areas of historiographic research in the languages of study in relation to the different types of sources (economic, political-diplomatic and institutional, demographic, religious, social and cultural, literary, artistic and performative) ;
• knowledge and framing of origins and dynamics of the development of European diversities and their extracontinental colonial transferts, from the age of geographic discoveries to the processes of decolonization, up to the current global geopolitical framework (cultures, religious, political, economic institutions);
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
• ability to articulate a coherent historical framework of the events that are at the origin of the development of the contemporary world, to distinguish the different factors of this historical development and of today's arrival to globalized modernity
• ability to recognize the different types of historiographical research in relation to the kind of historical sources used, with the conscious use of the historiographical categories;
Pre-requirements
Contents
Referral texts
A) Lectures notes
B) Handbook: R. Bizzocchi, Guida allo studio della storia moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002.
For NOT ATTENDING students:
A) Handbook: F. Benigno, L'età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell'America alla Restaurazione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005.
B) TWO books or program (1-6)
1 - a): Parker, G., La rivoluzione militare. Le innovazioni militari e il sorgere dell'Occidente (trad. it.), Bologna, Il Mulino, 1990 e rist.; b): Barberis, W., Le armi del Principe. La tradizione militare sabauda, Torino, Einaudi, 1988 e rist.
2 - a): Bloch, M. I re taumaturghi. Studio sul carattere sovrannaturale attribuito alla potenza dei re particolarmente in Francia e in Inghilterra (trad. it.), Torino, Einaudi, 1973 e rist.; b): Bercé, Y.-M., Il re nascosto. Miti politici popolari nell'Europa moderna (trad. it.), Torino, Einaudi, 1996.
3 - a):Bloch, M. I re taumaturghi. Studio sul carattere sovrannaturale attribuito alla potenza dei re particolarmente in Francia e in Inghilterra (trad. it.), Torino, Einaudi, 1973 e rist.; b): Bertelli, S., Il corpo del re. Sacralità e potere nell'Europa medievale e moderna, Firenze, Ponte alle Grazie, 1990 e rist.
4 - a): Stone, L., Famiglia, sesso e matrimonio in Inghilterra tra Cinque e Ottocento, Torino, Einaudi, 1983; b) Stone, L., La sessualità nella storia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995.
5 - a): Roche, D., Il popolo di Parigi. cultura popolare e civiltà materiale alla vigilia della Rivoluzione (trad. it.), Bologna, Il Mulino, 1986 e rist.; b): Roche, D., Storia delle cose banali. La nascita del consumo in Occidente (trad. it.), Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1999.
6 - a): Mornet, D., Le origini intellettuali della Rivoluzione francese, 1715-1789 (trad. it.), Milano, Jaca Book, 1982; b): Darnton, R., Libri proibiti. Pornografia, satira e utopia all'origine della Rivoluzione francese (trad. it.), Milano, Mondadori, 1997, solo le pp. 171-197.
Assessment methods
During the course of the test the student must demonstrate a) to be able to articulate a coherent historical picture of the events which, in the long and medium term, are at the origin of the development of the contemporary world; b) knowledge and ability to understand adequately the origins and dynamics of the development of European diversity; c) to differentiate into a key comparative different factors of historical, political, cultural, religious of European civilization; d) to have an idea of the different types of historical research in relation to the kind of historical sources used, e) knowledge of working with awareness of historiographical categories used in the lectures; f) to be able to reflect, with an appropriate degree of autonomy, on specific cases related to the course topics.
Teaching methods
Teaching language
Further information
* F. Benigno, L'età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell'America alla Restaurazione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005
Type of exam
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