MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: MARCO LINO LEONARDI

Expected Learning Outcomes

1)      1) Knowledge and understanding:

the students will be enabled to learn the basic features of medieval civilization and will fully understand the reading and interpretation of the texts on the program.

 

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:

the students will apply the knowledge acquired during the lessons by carrying out an ongoing verification test and the final exam. During the lessons, the students will be put in a position to fully understand (and without any difficulty) the fundamental aspects of the medieval era and to apply these skills in carrying out the exam.

 

3) Autonomy of judgment:

The students will study the discipline on texts characterized by linearity of presentation and clarity in learning. Starting from the texts on the program, the teacher will, in each lesson, encourage the learner's criticality and autonomy of judgment.

 

4) Communication skills:

The lessons and the teaching activity carried out by the teacher will encourage the development of the communication skills of the learners, obtained through the active participation of the latter in the lessons. The teacher will stimulate the learners' thematic interventions, thus favoring their presentation skills.

 

5) Learning skills:

The adoption of texts deeply meditated by the teacher will have as a fundamental objective the growth of learning skills. During

of the lessons, numerous tools will be provided to assist the learner, such as summary diagrams and chronological tables, in order to facilitate the learning skills of the discipline.

Course Structure

Teaching will be given through lectures, in which every aspect will be developed to fully understand medieval civilization. The projection of themed films and the dissemination of auxiliary tools such as summary diagrams and chronological tables, will complete the course of the teaching.

Required Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the Italian language

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance of the lessons, optional and not compulsory, is to be preferred in order to better learn the discipline.

Detailed Course Content

Description of historic events that have characterized the Middle Ages. (centuries V-XVI). The course pays particular attention to the use, culture and conflicts about water in Sicily during the medieval Civilization (centuries V-XVI).

Textbook Information

General course (5 CFU). Textbook:

Peter H. Wilson, Il Sacro Romano Impero, Il Saggiatore Editore, Milano 2017, pp. 1-520.


 

Monographic Study (4 CFU). Textbook:

 


Pina Travagliante (a cura di), Qui si trova la chiave per comprendere il tutto. Aspetti storici della Sicilia dall’Età Medievale all’Età Contemporanea, Algra Editore, Viagrande (Catania) 2018, pp. 1-200;

 

Marco Leonardi (a cura di), L’uomo e le acque nella storia e nella cultura euromediterranea : aspetti inediti di una civilizzazione plurimillenaria, Algra Editore, Viagrande (Catania) 2019, pp. 212.

 

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The assessment of the exam will take into account the mastery of the contents and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical properties, as well as the argumentative ability demonstrated by the candidate.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

The candidate describes the organization and functioning of the Carolingian Empire;

The candidate should study the biography of Frederick II of Swabia, with particular attention to the cultural policy adopted by the Emperor.

Reconstruct and describe the ways of using water resources in medieval Sicily.

VERSIONE IN ITALIANO