PATRISTICS

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
PATRISTICA
Course code
FM0547 (AF:528001 AR:294230)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
L-FIL-LET/07
Period
2nd Semester
Where
VENEZIA
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The Patristics course is a teaching of the bachelor's degree "History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age" and of the master's degree in "Sciences of Antiquity: literature, history and archaeology."
Students will have acquired:
- knowledge regarding content and method in the area of Christian literature of the 2nd-7th centuries;
- a knowledge of the literary and cultural world in the different periods and linguistic spheres;
- skills in the critical study of texts of Christian literature of the early centuries.
A knowledge of Greek and Latin is recommanded for a fruitful course attendance.
The course is divided into two parts:
1. General introduction and presentation of the different periods and authors.
2. Reading and commentary on Justin, Dialogue with Trypho; Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses; John of Damascus, On the divine images.
Bibliography:
For the first part is recommend The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics (ed. Ken Parry), Oxford 2015.
For the second the editions of the patristic authors (Justin, Gregory of Nyssa, John of Damascus).
Oral exam on topics discussed in class. Preparation of a paper on a patristic author (agreed with the professor) and exposition of this paper.
Lectures. The presence (constant) for the work on the texts is strongly recommended.
Italian
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 20/11/2024