MEDIEVAL HISTORY I
- Academic year
- 2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA MEDIEVALE I
- Course code
- FT0256 (AF:377293 AR:217334)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Subdivision
- Surnames M-Z
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- M-STO/01
- Period
- 2nd Term
- Course year
- 1
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
knowledge and understanding of the problems and methods od medieval history and its periodization;
knowledge and understanding of the different forms of secular and ecclesiastical power, of social and religious structures, and their evolution;
knowledge and understanding of the economic trends and conjunctures of the medieval age;
ability to apply knowledge and understanding to the identification of persistences, developments ad transformatios of medieval society;
ability to apply knowledge and understanding to the framework of the main historical problems related to the Middle Ages and to illustrate their developments and lines of investigation;
autonomy of judgment in the contextualization and critical evaluation of the sources analyzed in class, correctly placing them in the historiographic debate;
communicative ability to acquire an adequate lexicon and develop the ability to critically expose what has been studied;
learning ability to understand and critically analyze the complexity of historical evolutions in reference to other historical periods.
Pre-requirements
Contents
Referral texts
A) personal notes, sources and materials presented in class available in F. Steffens, Paleographie latine, Roma, Multigrafica, 1982 (http://www.icar.beniculturali.it/biblio/-view-volume.asp?ID-VOLUME=51 );
B) a manual to choose from:
G. Albertoni – T. Lazzari, Introduzione alla storia medievale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015,
L. Provero – M. Vallerani, Storia medievale, Milano, Le Monnier – Mondadori, 2016,
A. Zorzi, Manuale di storia medievale, Torino-Novara, UTET – De Agostini, 2016.
Non attending students:
A) a manual to choose from:
G. Albertoni – T. Lazzari, Introduzione alla storia medievale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015,
L. Provero – M. Vallerani, Storia medievale, Milano Le Monnier – Mondadori, 2016,
A. Zorzi, Manuale di storia medievale, Torino-Novara, UTET – De Agostini, 2016.
B) a text to choose from:
P. Cammarosano, Guida allo studio della storia medievale, Bari, Laterza, 2004 (o edizioni successive),
F. Senatore, Medioevo: istruzioni per l’uso, Milano, Mondadori, 2008,
G. Sergi, L’idea di medioevo. Tra senso comune e pratica storia, Roma, Donzelli, 1998-2005.
C) a text to choose from:
M. Bloch, La società feudale, Torino, Einaudi, 1949 (o edizioni successive),
G. Chittolini, La formazione dello stato regionale e le istituzioni del contado, Torino, Einaudi, 1979,
V. Fumagalli, Paesaggi della paura. Vita e natura nel medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1994,
A.J. Gurevic, Le categorie della cultura medievale, Torino, Einaudi, 1983 (o edizioni successive),
R.S. Lopez, La nascita dell’Europa, Torino, Einaudi, 1966 (o edizioni successive),
R.S. Lopez, La rivoluzione commerciale nel medioevo, Torino, Einaudi, 1971 (o edizioni successive),
G. Ortalli, La pittura infamante nei secoli XIII-XVI, Roma, Jouvence, 1979 (o edizioni successive),
G. Ortalli, Lupi, genti, culture: uomo e ambiente nel medioevo, Torino, Einaudi, 1997,
G. Tabacco, Egemonie sociali e strutture del potere nel medioevo italiano, Torino, Einaudi, 1979 (o edizioni successive),
G. Tabacco, Sperimentazioni del potere nell’alto medioevo, Torino, Einaudi, 1993.
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Further information
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