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 Eustratius of Constantinople (6th century), De statu animarum post mortem.
Bibliography:
For the first part is recommend The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics (ed. Ken Parry), Oxford 2015.
For the second: Eustratii Presbyteri Constantinopolitani De statu animarum post mortem (CPG 7522), ed. Peter van Deun (Corpus Christianorum. Series Graeca, 60) Turnhout - Leuven 2006.
Oral exam on topics discussed in class. Possible preparation of a paper on a specific author (agreed with the professor).
Lectures. The presence (constant) for the work on the texts is strongly recommended.
Italian
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 03/03/2024