- 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 29, 2024 to Apr 09, 2024
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 of early modern history, from the end of the Fifteenth century to 1815.
A second part of the course will be dedicated to the theme "Writing history through judicial archives", which will be addressed from a methodological and a practical point of view, examining a number of case studies coming from the archive of the civil court of the Legation of Ravenna and from the Holy Office in the Sixteenth century. In particular we will focus on the history of the Jewish community of Ravenna in the mid-Sixteenth century and on some cases of witchcraft in the second half of the same century.
Readings/Bibliography
Carlo Capra, Storia moderna. 1492-1848, Firenze, Le Monnier / Milano, Mondadori, qualsiasi edizione
Introduzione alla storia moderna, a cura di Marco Bellabarba e Vincenzo Lavenia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018: tre capitoli a scelta della parte prima e altrettanti della parte seconda
Luigi Londei, Le magistrature dello Stato della Chiesa nell’età moderna. Qualche nota di sintesi, in «Le Carte e la Storia» 2/1999, pp. 36-54
Giovanni Romeo, L’inquisizione nell’Italia moderna, Roma-Bari, Editori Laterza, 2002, capitoli 1 e 2 (pp. 3-62)
Marina Caffiero, Storia degli ebrei nell’Italia moderna. Dal Rinascimento alla Restaurazione, Roma, Carocci, 2014, capitoli 1-5 (pp. 11-121)
Wolfgang Berhinger, Le Streghe, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008
Carlo Ginzburg, I benandanti. Stregoneria e culti agrari tra Cinquecento e Seicento, Torino, Einaudi, 1966
Sources and further readings will be signalled and discussed during classes.
Students not attending classes are invited to contact the teacher via e-mail.
Teaching methods
In-class lessons
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Office hours
See the website of Giacomo Mariani