- Docente: Paola Galetti
- Credits: 12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0962)
Learning outcomes
Students will either come to known the essential topics of Middle Ages and its historiography, and to get the competence to contestualize, in a syncrhronic and a diachronic way, and to critically examinate a phenomenon or an event, to distinguish the different typologies of historical sources.
Course contents
12 CFU COURSE
The course will investigate some general themes to qualify Middle Ages:
1) Middle Ages idea. The Middle Ages in the contemporary culture.
2) Man and its environment.
3) The Western Wordl and the 'others'. Islam in the Middle Ages.
4) Society. Social changes and ideologies.
5) The origins of Middle Ages.
6) Church, churches and religious movements.
7) Europe and Middle Ages.
8) Men and countryside.
9) The "Comuni" and the "Signorie".
10) State constructional processes in Europe and Italy.
1st semester course
Lessons timetable and centre:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 13-15, Aula II, Via Zamboni 38.
Start of the course: September 28, 2015
2 CFU COURSE
Cfr. Bibliography.
Readings/Bibliography
12 CFU COURSE
Compulsory bibliography for all students (theme number 2):
P.GALETTI, Uomini e case nel Medioevo tra Occidente e Oriente, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014.
For attending students: it is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study three themes (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. It is also requested the knowledge of the main events of medieval history, presented during the lessons.
For not-attending students: It is obligatory, using the recommended bibliography, to study three themes (of your own choice) among the followings: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. In Addition to that, it is requested to study one medieval history handbook (of your own choice):
- M.Montanari, Storia Medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002.
- G.Piccinni, Il Medioevo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2004.
- A.Cortonesi, Il Medioevo. Profilo di un millennio, Roma, Carocci, 2009.
- R.Dondarini, Quel tempo chiamato medioevo. Mille anni di vicende, trasformazioni e antefatti della nostra storia, Napoli, Liguori, 2011.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- theme 1: G.SERGI, L'idea di Medioevo. Tra senso comune e pratica storica, Roma, Donzelli, 1998 + S.GUARRACINO, I concetti di Antico, Medievale, Moderno e Contemporaneo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2001, III, Medievale (1-7).
- theme 3: A.DUCELLIER, F.MICHEAU, L'Islam nel Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004 + H.MOHRING, Saladino, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007 or A.VANOLI, La Sicilia musulmana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012.
- theme 4: G.DUBY, Lo specchio del feudalesimo. Sacerdoti, guerrieri e lavoratori, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1998 or G.ALBERTONI, Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
- theme 5: 1) C.AZZARA, L'Italia dei barbari, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002 + C.AZZARA, Teoderico. Storia e mito di un re barbaro, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013 o G.RAVEGNANI, La vita quotidiana alla fine del mondo antico, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015; or 2) B.WARD-PERKINS, La caduta di Roma e la fine della civilta' , Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010
- theme 6: C.AZZARA, A.M.RAPETTI, La chiesa nel Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009 or C.AZZARA, Il papato nel Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006 or A.RAPETTI, Storia del monachesimo medievale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014.
- theme 7: J.LE GOFF, Il cielo sceso in terra. Le radici medievali dell'Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004.
- theme 8: A.CORTONESI, G.PASQUALI, G.PICCINNI, Uomini e campagne nell'Italia medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002 (pp.3-189, not included bibliography) or N.MANCASSOLA, L'azienda curtense tra Langobardia e Romania. Rapporto di lavoro e patti colonici dall'eta' carolingia al Mille, Bologna, CLUEB, 2008.
- theme 9: F.MENANT, L'Italia dei Comuni (1100-1350), Roma, Viella, 2011 or J.-C. MAIRE VIGUEUR( a cura di), Signorie cittadine nell'Italia comunale, Roma, Viella, 2013.
- theme 10: I.LAZZARINI, L'Italia degli Stati territoriali. Secoli XIII-XV, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003, pp.47-127, 137-179 + P.CONTAMINE, La Guerra dei Cent'anni, Bologna, Il Mulino,2007.
2 CFU- Medieval History
It is obligatory to study two theme: Storia Medievale, Roma, Donzelli, 1998. + S.GUARRACINO, I concetti di Antico, Medievale, Moderno e Contemporaneo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2001, capitolo III, Medievale (paragrafi 1-7).
Teaching methods
The course is based on frontal lessons concerning general medieval history and some investigations on qualifing Middle Ages themes, enriched by the presentation and comment of different typologies of written and material sources. Excursions, visits to exibitions, movie visions will take place.
Assessment methods
The assessment method is only trough a final exam, which will consist in an oral exam. This exam will aim to verify that the student has acquired the expected knowledge. The minimum standard of learing required to the student is to be able to place in the correct chronological order the most important events of the Middle Ages, to justify the causal connections between the different events and to investigate the themes that will be proposed by the teacher during the lessons.
Teaching tools
Overhead projector, video and slide projector, audiovisual aids and power-point; materials on web.
Office hours
See the website of Paola Galetti