11379 - Medieval History (A-L)

Learning outcomes

Students have come to known the essential themes of the Middle Ages and its historiography, and to get the power to contestualize, in synchronic and diachronic way, and critically examinate a phenomenon or event, to distinguish the different types of historical sources.

Course contents

The course consists into two sections:



a) General part (30 hours)

It trace history and main themes of medieval history, so as to provide the foundations of historical knowledge about the period. Each class will have, approximately, a thematic topic, in order to offer a selection of the most important issues, the specific language and the historiographical categories related to the evolution of the medieval millennium.



b) monographic part (30 hours)

The second part of the course is aimed at a thematic topic, in order to illustrate and understand a case study and show the dense network of more schematically presented thematic reports in the first part of the course.

Readings/Bibliography

N.B.: Erasmus students must have a talk before the examination

Institutional part:

The Middle Ages: topics and issues

It must prepare on a good manual; between the manuals we suggest:

- G. CHITTOLINI, Storia medievale, Firenze, Le Monnier, 1995 [CAPRA- CHITTOLINI-DELLA PERUTA, Corso di storia, I Storia medievale]

- M. MONTANARI, Storia medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002

- C. AZZARA, Le civiltà del Medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino 2004

- A. CORTONESI, Il Medioevo. Profilo di un millennio, Roma, Carocci 2008

2) Monographical part: Frederick II and his children

1) W. Sturner, Federico II e l'apogeo dell'impero, Roma 2009: capitoli VIII, X (PDF available on campus.unibo.it)

2) A.L. Trombetti , V. Braidi, R. Pini, F.Roversi Monaco, Bologna Re Enzo e il suo mito, CLUEB, Bologna 2002scuola di falconeria"

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures, with the use of powerpoint, made available to students on AMS Campus .
In the second part of the course also includes visits to some of the major emergencies of communal age of Bologna.

Assessment methods

The examination consists of an oral interview (in italian) that can be addressed in two separate tests (1. General part 2. Specialised course), or in a single test. The oral examination is aimed at the evaluation of critical and methodological skills acquired during class (students not attending are invited to make contact with the teacher before starting the study). The student will demonstrate knowledge of critically addressing the sources and historiography about the software. It will be assigned a weight to presentation skills and mastery of a language appropriate to the topic.

Teaching tools

AMS Campus

Office hours

See the website of Anna Laura Trombetti