Byzantine history
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
GIOACCHINO STRANO
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin Descriptors, learning
objectives are:
Knowledge and understanding.
The student will have a good mastery of the methods
and scientific contents related to the main processes and phenomena of
Byzantine History; he /she will acquire the basic methodological tools that allow
a critical reading of historical phenomena; he / she will know the fundamental
instruments of historical investigation and the main interpretative lines of
the contemporary scientific debate related to the discipline.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding.
The student will be able to frame the historical and
cultural themes inherent to Byzantine History in a more general context of
historical development; he/she will be able to critically read, explain and
contextualize, in the light of the most modern methodological and
historiographic acquisitions, the historical sources.
Autonomy of judgement.
The course will allow students to acquire:
- awareness of the basic methodological processes of
historical research;
- awareness of the social and cultural relevance of
the historical-cultural heritage.
Communication skills.
The student will be able:
- to communicate in oral and written form on the main
themes of the discipline, using the most appropriate argumentative methods and
using the disciplinary terminology of Byzantine History;
- to rework autonomously and communicate in an
appropriate way the main issues related to Byzantine History and its heritage
in the Western culture.
Learning skills.
The
student will then have acquired the ability to use the main tools for finding
information in the discipline, in particular the bibliographical updating
tools. He/she will be able to deal autonomously with the study of specific
themes of Byzantine History with methodological rigour, showing autonomous capacities
of analysis and synthesis.Course Structure
Frontal Lessons
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory
Detailed Course Content
A sketch of Byzantine History with a reading of the sources in
translation (6 ECTS).
Textbook Information
The program consists of the study of these
books:
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G. Ravegnani, Introduzione alla storia bizantina, Bologna, Il Mulino 2006, pp.
1-186.
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J. Herrin, Bisanzio. Storia dell'impero che unì due mondi, Milano, Rizzoli,
2021, pp. 1-414.
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.
