Methodology of Historical Research
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
Lina SCALISI
Expected Learning Outcomes
The acquired knowledge will aim
to understand the origin and evolution of modern historical criticism. To learn
the main types of sources and their use for historical analysis. Critical
capacity will be reached about the ability to detect, find, process, and work
with historical sources, together with the knowledge about the difference
between history and historiography and to learn issues and methodologies
applied to Italian and European historiography, strengthening the capacity to combine
knowledge and comprehension.
Course Structure
Frontal lessons, also in dialogue form, and seminars activities.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
1. In the first part of the course attention will be given to
methodological questions, related to historical research and the ways through
which history is told. Different types of sources (archival, literary, private/personal,
figurative and audio-visual) will be illustrated and analysed.
2. The analysis of the major Italian and European
historiographical questions and their interconnectedness with the construction of
the Italian state, from its birth to its complete modernization, will be the
subject of the second part of the course. The discussion on these topics will
represent, moreover, a moment of critical reflection and methodological
learning.Textbook Information
1. Basic Knowledge
of Early Modern History (3 ECTS).
1.
S. Luzzatto, Prima lezione di metodo storico, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2013,
pp. 210.
2.R. Bizzocchi, Guida allo studio della storia moderna, Roma-Bari,
Laterza, 2006 (solo pp. 86-122).
- The
intellectuals and the history (3 ECTS)
(1 to choose among:)
I. G.
Giarrizzo, La Storiografia della Nuova
Italia, vol. I., Edizioni Storia e letteratura, Roma, 2019, pp.
9-116.
II. L.Scalisi-Francesco Failla, Tracce d’Oriente. Gesuiti siciliani nella Cina del
Celeste Impero, Domenico Sanfilippo Editore, Catania, 2022.
