- Docente: Giacomo Mariani
- Credits: 12
- SSD: M-STO/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Cultural Heritage (cod. 9076)
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from Jan 27, 2025 to Apr 02, 2025
Learning outcomes
The course concerns the reconstruction of the main events in Early Modern History, in the light of the latest historical interpretations. After completing the course, students will be able to place the facts and issues in the context of international events and will be able to show sound knowledge and understanding of the main phases of European and World history from the end of the 15th to the end of the 18th Centuries.
Course contents
In the first part, the course will retrace the main aspects and events that characterized early modern history, from the end of the Fifteenth century to 1815.
A second part of the course will be dedicated to the theme of the encounter between European colonizes and the indigenous population of the American continent, especially between the late-fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with reference also to the commerce of slaves from Africa.
Readings/Bibliography
For the preparation of the first part of the course, it is suggested to study the handbook:
Aurelio Musi, Le vie della modernità, Milano, Sansoni, any edition.
Alternatively, students may also use:
Carlo Capra, Storia moderna. 1492-1848, Firenze, Le Monnier / Milano, Mondadori, any edition.
Furthermore, students will choose three chapters of the first parts and three of the second part of:
Introduzione alla storia moderna, a cura di Marco Bellabarba e Vincenzo Lavenia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 or later editions.
For the preparation of the second part of the course:
Tzvetan Todorov, La conquista dell'America, Torino, Einaudi, 1984 or later editions.
Lisa A. Lindsay, Il commercio degli schiavi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
Sources and further readings will be signalled and discussed during classes.
Students not attending classes will add the reading of Bartolomé de Las Casas, Brevissima relazione della distruzione delle Indie in any of the editions Milano, Mondadori or Venezia, Marsilio.
Teaching methods
In-class lessons
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Office hours
See the website of Giacomo Mariani