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MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Academic Year 2024/2025 - 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.

 

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
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