Modern History

 The course provides the student with

- the knowledge and understanding of the main methodological, critical and applicative aspects of the discipline, indicates research perspectives in areas and sectors relevant to the discipline, shows the various fields of interest within which disciplinary skills can be applied

- encourages the student's autonomy of judgement and ability to relate what has been learnt to other historical, literary, artistic, cultural heritage, historical-religious disciplines, etc.

- enables the student to use the knowledge acquired and to communicate in oral and written form using terminology appropriate to the discipline

Lectures and seminars.

Attendance is not compulsory.

The course aims to provide knowledge of the main themes of modern history. The lessons will be divided into modules as follows

 

A - The modern Age. The main themes from XV to XIX century (3 CFU).

B - Culture and society (4 CFU).

C- Thematic course: the burials in the sacristy of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples (15th-18th centuries) (2 CFU). 

 

The first part of the lessons will be devoted to exposing the mail topics related to modules A and B, such as

- the birth of the modern state

- religious crisis in sixteenth-century

- economy and society

- Wars, rivolts e revolution in seventeenth-century

- Enlightenment

 

The second part of the lectures will be reserved for the in-depth study of the thematic course (module C), dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the burials in the sacristy of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples (15th-18th centuries)

A. The modern age (3 CFU)

F. Benigno, L’età moderna: dalla scoperta dell’America alla Restaurazione, Laterza, 2005, (pp. 3-234, 279-350).

 

B. Culture and society (4 CFU).  Choosing two books 

A. M.Banti,V. Fiorino, C. Sorba (a cura di) Lessico della Storia culturale, Bari-Roma, Editori Laterza, 2023, (p. 200).

A. Barbero, Federico il Grande, Palermo, Sellerio, 2017, (p. 200).

M.S.Messana, Il Santo Ufficio dell’Inquisizione. Sicilia 1500-1782, Palermo, Istituto poligrafico europeo, 2017, (p. 200).

A. Musarra, 1492. Diario del primo viaggio, Roma –Bari, Laterza, 2022, (p. 200).

C. Casanova, Regine per caso. Donne al governo in età moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019, (p. 200).

N. Zemon Davies, Il ritorno di Martin Guerre. Un caso di doppia identità nella Francia del Cinquecento, Roma, Officina libraria, 2022, (p. 200).

N. Elias, Mozart. Sociologia di un genio, Bologna, il Mulino, 1991, (p.200).

T. Kaufmann, I redenti e i dannati. Una storia della riforma, Torino, Einaudi, 2018, (p. 200).

M.G. Muzzarelli, Le regole del lusso. Apparenza e vita quotidiana dal Medioevo all’Età moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020, (p. 200). 

G. Parker, L’imperatore : vita di Carlo V, Milano, Hoepli, 2021, (p. 200).

M. Firpo-M. Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell’Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016, (p. 200).

M. Pastoureau, Bianco. Storia di un colore, Firenze, Ponte alle Grazie, 2022, (p. 200).

 

C. Thematic course (2 CFU).  A case of interdisciplinary research: the study of the aristocratic burials in the sacristy of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples (15th-18th centuries).

L. Gazzè, Le vicende storiche della sacrestia di san Domenico Maggiore in G. Fornaciari, Le sepolture aristocratiche della sacrestia di san Domenico maggiore a Napoli, (secc.XV-XVIII), in «Documenti di Archeologia Postmedievale » Firenze 2024, (pp.37-92).

 

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.