PALEOGRAPHY AND CODICOLOGY
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
ORAZIO ANTONIO LICANDRO
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the
end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) knowledge and
understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle;
ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.
2) ability to apply
knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar
issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's
field of study;
3) ability to
integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that
is not necessarily complete;
4) ability to
communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and
non-specialist interlocutors.
5) ability to carry
out research autonomously.
Specific objectives:
Knowledge of the essential
elements of paleography from the archaic age to the late ancient and early
medieval age. Knowledge of the scripture, and the documents of different
nature.
Knowledge of the essential
elements of the history of ancient book and its evolution: volumen
and codex.
Knowledge of the methodology
and use of papyri, tablets, ostraka,
inscriptions, for the reconstruction of political history, social, economic and
cultural of ancient Rome.
Acquisition of reading ability of ancient documents,
papyri, parchments, epigraphs, and their geographical location.
Course Structure
Traditional, helped by new technologies for the reading of ancient documents.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
Papyrology and historical development, documentaries papyri. The alphabetical
scriptures. Scriptures. Other materials. The ancient book.
During
the lessons documents of different nature will be showed and discussed.
Textbook Information
- P. Cherubini
– A. Pratesi, Paleografia latina.
L’avventura grafica del mondo occidentale, Città del Vaticano, 2010,
pp. 1-514.
- G. Cavallo,
La scrittura greca e latina. Un’introduzione,
F. Serra Editore, Pisa/Roma, 2008, pp. 1-190.
- L. Canfora,
Il copista come autore, Sellerio Editore,
Palermo 2019, pp. 1-179.
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.
VERSIONE IN ITALIANO