MODERN HISTORY A - L

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: LAVINIA GAZZE'

Expected Learning Outcomes

 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, 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. 

Course Structure

Lectures and seminars 

Required Prerequisites

No prerequisites. During the lessons, the main topics of modern history and the history of Sicily in the modern era will be covered.

Attendance of Lessons

Facoltativa 

Detailed Course Content

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 CFU).

B - Culture and society (2 CFU).

C- Thematic course: the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily (1 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 the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily

Textbook Information

A. The modern age (3 CFU)

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

B. Culture and society (2 CFU).  Choosing a book:  

T. Kaufmann, I redenti e i dannati. Una storia della riforma, Torino, Einaudi, 2018 (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. Social and cultural role of the Spanish Inquisition in Sicily  (1 CFU) (p. 100)

G.Fiume - M.Gracía–Arenal (a cura di), Parole prigioniere. I graffiti delle carceri del Santo Uffizio di Palermo, Palermo, Istituto Poligrafico Europeo, 2018.

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
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