MODERN HISTORY 1

The course is intended to cover the Western and European History between the XVI and XVIII centuries. It will focus on the most important topics, the breaks and the spaces known to be the basis of "modernity", through a comparative approach open to the international context.

- Knowledge of the main issues related to Early Modern History, of the historical method and of the historiographic categories.
- Ability to critically identify, summarize and analyse contexts and events within their international dimension.
- Comprehension of long-term processes, connections and dynamics underlying different levels of historic analysis: anthropological, political, religious, economic, cultural and spatial.
- Acquisition of an appropriate familiarity with the disciplinary lexis, with the methodological tools and the historiographic interpretation, in order to organise independently research projects in history.

Basic knowledge of Early Modern History, high-school level.

After an introduction dedicated to definitions, periodization and interpretations of "modernity", the course will focus on the main general topics of the XVI-XVIII centuries, deepening studies on the major events, backgrounds, breaks and long-term aspects, as well as the method and the historiographic categories. Subjects of the study will be: Europe and the New World; the ecological revolutions (geographic, scientific, of the collective imagination and communication); the economic structures, industrialization, trading and global network; States, Empires and colonies; violence and war; social, familiar and gender stratifications; religious stratifications; the end of the Ancien Régime.

- Introduzione alla storia moderna, edited by Marco Bellabarba and Vincenzo Lavenia, il Mulino, Bologna, 2018, isbn: 9788815278579.
- Lecture notes.
- Teaching material available at the Moodle page of the course.

Oral exam concerning the study of the recommended manual, lecture notes and the teaching material provided.
Subjects under assessment will be: the ability to set and compare in time and space the main general topics, focusing on the most significant events of Early Modern History, its backgrounds, breaks and long-term aspects; the application of an appropriate disciplinary lexis.

Lectures supported by presentations and teaching materials available at the Moodle page of the course.

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