EARLY MODERN HISTORY

The discipline belongs to the core educational activities of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in History. It aims to provide a basic knowledge of the History of the Early Modern Age.
The instructional goals of the course are:
a) acquiring a basic knowledge of the European History in the Early Modern Age.
b) developing a deeper consciousness of the complex origins of European culture, and of the very beginning of "globalization".
c) developing a basic consciousness of historical sources and methods.

The attendance at the course and the individual study will allow the students:
1) to acquire a basic knowledge of the European History in the Early Modern Age.
2) to develop a deeper consciousness of the complex origins of European culture, and of the very beginning of "globalization";
3) to develop a basic consciousness of historical sources and methods.

The students must have a good knowledge of the Italian language.

1. The "early modern age".
2. The “early-modern state” (models, theories, historiographical debates)
3. The European demography during the early modern era
4. Humanism and Renaissance
5. Discovery/Conquest of America. The European global expansion
6. The protestant reformation
7. The counter-reformation and the religious conflicts in the confessional age
8. Charles V and his Empire
9. The Ottoman Empire
10. The Spanish Monarchy of Philipp II
11. The birth of the Dutch Republic
12. The thirty years war
13. The English Revolutions of the XVII century
14. The Absolutism
15. The "scientific revolution"
16. The European expansion
17. The Englightenment
18. The American Revolution
19. The French Revolution

a) Carlo Capra. Storia moderna (1492-1848), Milano, Mondadori, 2011 (and later editions)

b) Notes of the lessons.
c) 2 of the following books:
1. T. Brook, Il cappello di Vermeer. Il Seicento e la nascita del mondo globalizzato, Torino, Einaudi, 2015 (ed.or. 2007).
2. S. Gruzinski, Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2016.
3. C. Klapisch Zuber, Matrimoni rinascimentali. Donne e vita famigliare a Firenze (secc. XIV-XV), Roma, Viella 2022.
4. Raffaella Sarti, Vita di casa. Abitare, mangiare, vestire nell'Europa moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006 (ed edizioni successive)
5. N. Zemon Davis, Donne ai margini. Tre vite del XVII secolo, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2016 (ed edizioni successive)

The exam consists of a written test (time available 2 hours). It is structured in open questions on the content of the general part of the course and two questions on the monographs of your choice.

Frontal lessons with power point presentations; online forums.

Italian

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development