HISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

Special objectives: to acquire a general knowledge of the Mediterranean world in the medieval and modern age with a particular attention to the role played by Sicily in the XVIth century.

Part A (4 ECTS).

The Mediterranean in medieval and modern age. The history of a sea that was the theater of clashes and encounters among different people, cultures, languages and religions

Part B (2 ECTS).

Part A 

D. Abulafia, Il grande mare. Storia del Mediterraneo, Mondadori, Milano 2013, pp. 600

Part B     

C. Salvo, La biblioteca del viceré. Politica religione e cultura nella Sicilia del Cinquecento, Il Cigno Galileo Galilei, Roma 2004, pp. 300.

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