MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year - Curriculum Storico-artisticoCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: M-STO/01 - Medieval history
Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
ENGLISH VERSION
Learning Objectives
Learning about the main tools to understand a range of methodological issues current in the historiography of medieval Europe, especially the definition of medieval studies as a field of inquiry and the chronological limits of this periodization.
Acquiring knowledge about most important events, issues and problems of Early and Late Middle Ages, with particular focus on the religious movements and the intellectual life.
Course Structure
1. Methodological Introduction and Historiographical Foundations
2. The most important historical events
3.Thematic Insights
Detailed Course Content
The Middle Ages as an Historiographical Problem.
From the Ancient World to the Medieval Europe: East and West.
Rise and propagation of Islam.
Early Middle Ages.
Late Middle Ages.
Religious movements.
Politics and intellectual life.
Textbook Information
- Massimo Montanari, Storia Medievale, Laterza 2006, pp. 279;
- Grado Giovanni Merlo, Il cristianesimo medievale in Occidente, Laterza 2012, pp. 205.
Students will have to choose one of the following books:
- F. Senatore, Medioevo: istruzioni per l’uso, Bruno Mondadori 2008, pp. 160.
- V. D’Alessandro, Città e campagne nella Sicilia medievale, CLUEB 2010, pp. 200.
- P. M. Cobb, La conquista del Paradiso. Una storia islamica delle crociate, Einaudi 2016, pp. 347.
- Leslie Brubaker L'invenzione dell'iconoclasmo bizantino, Viella 2016, pp. 172.
- P. Brown, Il riscatto dell'anima: Aldilà e ricchezza nel primo cristianesimo occidentale, Einaudi 2016, pp. 233.
- F. Maurici, F. Raffaele, C. Ruta, T. Sardella Federico II e il suo tempo. Il Regnum e l’Impero, il papato, le etnie, le culture, Edizioni di Storia e Studi Sociali, 2016, pp. 144.
- A. Vanoli, La Sicilia musulmana, Il Mulino 2016, pp. 229.
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.