- Docente: Angela De Benedictis
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History and Oriental Studies (cod. 8845)
Learning outcomes
After completing this module the student is aware of the complexity of the practices of power (mid 15th century - mid 19th century) through knowledge of their evolution before and after the birth of modern political science (mid 17th century). She/He knows about the connections between the historical studies, law, political science, philosophical, historical and institutional. Knows how to use the original historical sources required and knows how to interpret the expression of cultural memory, aware of the interest that the problem of practices of power has to contemporary society.
Course contents
Radical movements and the Protestant Reformation: obedience to authority / resistance to authority
The course will focus above all on the ‘Germant Peasant War’ (1524-1525), and on the resistance offered to Emperor Charles V by Madgeburg’s citizens (1546-1551), in order to discuss on one hand the political and religious concepts ‘obedience’ and ‘resistance to authority’ in early modern Europe as well as in the Reformation, and on the other hand the closely related concepts ‘state’, ‘sovereignty’, ‘representation’, ‘freedom’, ‘revolution’.
Beginning of lessons: 29 January 2018 (Semester II, III Period)
Time and place of lessons: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 13:00 to 15:00 hours, Aula Fumagalli, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2.
Readings/Bibliography
For those students who attend lessons, the plan for the exam will be arranged with the students at the beginning of lessons and will depend upon their ability to read foreign languages.
Examination program for students not attending (published 26.06.2017).
For those students who do not attend lessons: The students must demonstrate their profound knowledge of the books contained within one of the sections A and within one of the books indicated in section B.
A.
A1. Angela De Benedictis, Politica, governo e istituzioni nell'Europa moderna, Bologna, il Mulino, 2001 + Clizia Magoni, Fueros e libertà. Il mito della costituzione aragonese nell'Europa moderna, Roma, Carocci, 2007.
A2. Edward Muir, Il sangue s'infuria e ribolle. La vendetta nel Friuli del Rinascimento, trad. it., Sommacampagna, Cierre, 2010 + Angela De Benedictis, Tumulti. Moltitudini ribelli in età moderna, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013.
A3. Giuliano Procacci, Machiavelli nella cultura europea dell'età moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995 + Gennaro Maria Barbuto, Machiavelli, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2013.
A4. Luise Schon-Schütte, La Riforma protestante, trad. it., Bologna, il Mulino, 2017 (nuova edizione disponibile dall’autunno 2017) + Mario Biagioni, Lucia Felici, La Riforma radicale nell’Europa del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012.
A5. Aurelio Musi, La rivolta di Masaniello nella scena politica barocca, Napoli, Guida, 20022 + Angela De Benedictis, Tumulti. Moltitudini ribelli in età moderna, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013.
A6. Paolo Viola, Il trono vuoto. La transizione della sovranità nella Rivoluzione francese, Torino, Einaudi, 1988 + Clizia Magoni, “Le pour et le contre”. Il processo di Luigi XVI di fronte all'opinione pubblica, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2014.
A7. Haim Burstin, Rivoluzionari. Antropologia politica della Rivoluzione francese, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016 + Clizia Magoni, “Le pour et le contre”. Il processo di Luigi XVI di fronte all'opinione pubblica, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2014.
A8. Jonathan Israel, La Rivoluzione francese. Una storia intellettuale dai Diritti dell'uomo a Robespierre, Torino, Einaudi, 2016.
B.
B1. Mauro Barberis, Libertà , Bologna, il Mulino, 1999.
B2. Francesco Benigno – Luca Scuccimarra (edd), Simboli della politica, Roma, Viella, 2010.
B3. Luciano Canfora, L'uso politico dei paradigmi storici, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.
B4. R. Laudani, Disobbedienza, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010.
B5. D. Quaglioni,Sovranità , Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004.
B6. M. Ricciardi, Rivoluzione, Bologna, il Mulino, 2001.
In mid-January 2018 may be included in the bibliography new titles.
Those students who have not attended class should meet with the teacher (during office hours) to discuss the exam so that each student can explicitly choose his or her exam program based on the curriculum followed during the previous three years of study of the First cycle degree/Bachelor.
By e-mail will not be agreed any syllabus.
Teaching methods
The lessons will function as lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral examination, lasting an average of 30-40 minutes.
During the examination are evaluated: a thorough knowledge of the issues addressed in each of the essential texts for the whole program; the ability to recognize, in every text, the sources used and historiographical reconstruction; the expressive mastery and specific language.
The lack of knowledge of one of the texts in the program implies a negative evaluation.
Gaps in knowledge of the texts in the program, poor ability to recognize sources and historiographical reconstruction, language hardly appropriate involve an assessment of not more than sufficiency.
Knowledge mostly mechanical and / or mnemonics, capacity of synthesis and analysis limited, proper language but not always appropriate involve a discrete evaluation.
Full knowledge of the texts, full capacity of synthesis and analysis, fully correct and appropriate language involve as good to excellent.
Signing up at exam periods: should be made available through AlmaEsami (important notice regarding every period at http://www.unibo.it/docenti/angela.debenedictis )
Teaching tools
Video projector
Office hours
See the website of Angela De Benedictis