MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher:
MARCO LINO LEONARDI
Expected Learning Outcomes
Medieval History teaching aims to convey the basic
knowledge of the historic period that formed the Euromediterranean area from
the Fifth to the Sixteenth Century. It will be demonstrated during the course
of lessons as every single historic event, for example, the incoronation to
Emperor of Charlemagne on the Christmas Night of year 800, can be learned fully
if we reconstruct organically the history of events, of the custom, of the
mentality, of the religion, of the social-economic structure in the Medieval
period.
Course Structure
The teaching is divided into two parts that are
closely related. The general course aims to the knowledge of the peculiar
characteristics of the cultural, economics, philosophical, religious and social
foundations from the Edict of Tolerance (313) to the action of Martin Luther
(1483-1546) inside the variegated world of the medieval society (centuries
IV-XVI). The monographic course investigates the utilization, the culture, the
reception of Thomas d’Aquino (1224-1274). Particular importance will be given to
the description of the clashes to control of interpretation, conscience,
cultural production about the Dominican’s Friar and Church’s Doctor Thomas
d’Aquino, who founded a new way to study History and Theology.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
Description of historic events that have characterized
the Middle Ages. (centuries V-XVI). The course pays particular attention to the
use, studies and debates about Thomas d’Aquino’s Thought and action in Late
Medievale Europe (XIII-XVI centuries).
Textbook Information
General course
(4 CFU). Textbook:
Chris Wickham, L’Europa
nel Medioevo, Carocci Editore, Roma 2020, ISBN 9788843099719, pp. 1-400.
Monographic
Study (2 CFU). Textbook:
Gaetano
Sebastiano Tomagra (editor), Bene Scripsisti. Contributi in occasione del
VII Centenario della canonizzazione di Tommaso d’Aquino (1323-2023),Algra
Editore, Viagrande (Catania) 2024, ISBN 9788893417648, pp. 199.
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.
