Modern History

The course 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 to the discipline, 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 XIX century (4 CFU).

B - Culture and society (3 CFU).

C- Thematic course: the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily. (2 CFU). 

 

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 social and cultural role of holy relics and patron saints in Sicily.

A. The modern age (4 CFU)

F. Benigno, L’età moderna: dalla scoperta dell’America alla Restaurazione, Laterza, 2005.

 

B. Culture and society (3 CFU).  Choosing two books 

P. Palmieri, Le cento vite di Cagliostro, Bologna, il Mulino, 2023, (p.200)

A. Barbero, Federico il Grande, Palermo, Sellerio, 2017, (p.200)

M.S.Messana, Il Santo Ufficio dell’Inquisizione. Sicilia 1500-1782, Palermo, Istituto poligrafico europeo, 2017, (p.200)

A. Musarra, 1492. Diario del primo viaggio, Roma –Bari, Laterza, 2022., (p.200)

C. Casanova, Regine per caso. Donne al governo in età moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019, (p.200)

L. Mascilli Migliorini, 500 giorni. Napoleone dall’Elba a Sant’Elena, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016, (p.200)

N. Elias, Marinaio  e gentiluomo. La genesi della professione navale, Bologna, il Mulino 2010, (p.200)

T. Kaufmann, I redenti e i dannati. Una storia della riforma, Torino, Einaudi, 2018, (p.200)

M.G. Muzzarelli, Le regole del lusso. Apparenza e vita quotidiana dal Medioevo all’Età moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020, (p.200)

G. Parker, L’imperatore: vita di Carlo V, Milano Hoepli,  2021, (p.200)

M. Firpo-M. Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell’Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016, (p.200)

L.Scalisi, (a cura) Libera nos. Epidemie e conflitti sociali in Sicilia ( secc. XVI – XXI), Roma,Viella, 2022, (p.200)

E. Novi Chiavarria, Accogliere e curare. Ospedali e culture delle nazioni nella Monarchia ispanica (secc. XVI-XVII), Roma, Viella, 2020, (p.200)

 M. Pastoureau, Verde. Storia di un colore, Firenze, Ponte alle Grazie,    2016, (p.200)

 

C. Thematic course. (2CFU) The origins of worship between devotion,politics and art

V. Petrarca, Di Santa Rosalia Vergine Palermitana, Palermo, Sellerio, 2022 (less than 200 pagine).

 

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.