The course,
according to the Dublin descriptors, provides the student with
- The knowledge and understanding of the main
methodological, critical and applicative aspects of the discipline, indicates
research perspectives in areas and sectors relevant, shows the various fields
of interest within which disciplinary skills can be applied;
- Encourages the student's autonomy of judgement and
ability to relate what has been learnt to other historical, literary, artistic,
cultural heritage, historical-religious disciplines, etc.;
- Enables the student to use the knowledge acquired
and to communicate in oral and written form using terminology appropriate to
the discipline.
The course aims to provide knowledge of the main
themes of modern history. The lessons will be divided into modules as follows
A - The modern Age. The main themes from XV to XVIII
century (3 ECTS).
B - Culture and society (2 ECTS).
C- Thematic course: the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily
(1 ECTS).
The first part of the lessons will be devoted to exposing
the mail topics related to modules A and B, such as
- the birth of the modern state
- religious crisis in sixteenth-century
- economy and society
- Wars, rivolts e revolution in seventeenth-century
- Enlightenment
Part of the lessons will be reserved for the thematic
course (modulo C) devoted to the emergence and social role of the British Royal Navy
A. The modern age (3 ECTS)
F. Benigno, L’età moderna: dalla
scoperta dell’America alla Restaurazione, Laterza, 2005.
B. Culture and society (2 ECTS). Choosing a book:
T. Kaufmann, I redenti e i dannati. Una
storia della riforma, Torino, Einaudi, 2018 (p.200)
D.
Salomoni, Francis Drake. Il corsaro che sfidò un impero,
Laterza, 2023 (p. 200)
A.
Musarra, 1492. Diario del primo viaggio, Laterza
2022 (p.200)
B.
de Las Casas, Brevissima relazione sulla distruzione delle
Indie,
Marsilio,
2012 (p.263).
G.
Parker, Un solo re, un solo impero. Filippo II di Spagna,
Mulino, 2005,
(pp.55-278)
J.
H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale 1465-1716, Il Mulino 2006 (p.200)
A.
Barbero, Il divano di Istanbul, Sellerio, 2015,
(p.207)
A.
Vanoli, la Sicilia musulmana, il Mulino, 2016
(p.200)
G.
Abbatista, La rivoluzione americana, Laterza 2015
(p.192)
S.
Tabacchi, La strage di San Bartolomeo. Una notte di sangue a
Parigi, Salerno Editrice,
2018, (p.150)
T.
Brook, Il cappello di Vermeer. Il Seicento e la nascita
del
Mondo
globalizzato, Einaudi,
2015, (pp.29-231).
L.Frédéric,
La vita quotidiana in Giappone al tempo dei samurai
(1185-1603), BUR, 2018, (p.200)
L.
Hughes, Pietro il Grande, Einaudi, 2012, (p.200)
C. Thematic course. Drake versus Doughty. Social conflicts
in Elizabethan Navy (1ECTS)
N. Elias, Marinaio e Gentiluomo. La
genesi della professione navale, il Mulino, 2010, (pp.37-143)
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.