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CURRICULUM TIPO:

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2010/2011

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti, in relazione al percorso

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2011/2012

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
6
C
M-FIL/04
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Altre attivita' formative III anno
6
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2010/2011
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti, in relazione al percorso
activated in the A.Y. 2011/2012
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
6
C
M-FIL/04
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Altre attivita' formative III anno
6
F
-

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Teaching code

4S01320

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/07 - HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY AND OF CHURCHES

Period

I semestre dal Oct 3, 2011 al Jan 27, 2012.

Learning outcomes

knowledge of sources and instruments of the historic-religious research, ability to analyse sources in relation with the problems of the historical-religious reseach.

Program

Prerequisites: knowledge, even elementary, of classical Latin, basic knowledge of the Medieval history from V to XV century.

Content of the course:
During the course the main institutions of the medieval church will be presented into the most general context of the Italy and European history in the Middle Age (V-XV centuries). Besides the institutional aspects, the development of the religious life and of the ideas which animated the medieval Christianity will be investigated in all their components. Object of analyses will also be the moments of the passages, of the crises and the changes, with particular reference to the first centuries of the Christianity, to the reform of the XI century, to the religious movements of the XII and XIII centuries, to the development of the Begging orders, to the crises of XIV century.

Reference books

Storia del cristianesimo. Il Medioevo, a cura di G. Filoramo e D. Menozzi (contributi di G. Tabacco, M. Gallina, G.G. Merlo), Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997.
G. Potestà- G. Vian, Storia del cristianesimo, Il Mulino 2010.
Due saggi a scelta fra i seguenti da concordare con la docente (per i non frequentanti i saggi sono tre)
-C. La Rocca, La cristianizzazione dei barbari e la nascita dell’Europa, distribuito in formato digitale da “Reti medievali”. Sezione Rivista, V – 2004/2 (luglio-dicembre). (www.retimedievali.it). Il saggio è pubblicato ora in Il cristianesimo. Grande atlante, I: Dalle origini alle Chiese contemporanee, Torino 2006, pp. 72-89.
-M. Pellegrini, Vescovo e città. Una relazione nel Medioevo italiano (secoli II-XIV), Milano 2009.
-V. Polonio, Il monachesimo nel Medioevo italico, in G.M. Cantarella, V. Polonio, R. Rusconi, Chiesa, chiese, movimenti religiosi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001, pp. 83-187.
-Il monachesimo femminile in Italia dall’alto medioevo al secolo XVII a confronto con l’oggi, a cura di G. Zarri, Negarine di San Pietro in Cariano (Verona) 1997, saggi concordati con la docente)
-G.G. Merlo, I movimenti religiosi, le chiese ereticali e gli ordini mendicanti, in La storia. I grandi problemi dal medioevo all’età contemporanea, diretta da N. Tranfaglia e M. Firpo, I: Il Medioevo, I quadri generali, Torino 1988, pp. 391-423.
-G.G. Merlo, Storia di frate Francesco e dell’ordine dei Minori, in Francesco d’Assisi e il primo secolo di storia francescana, Torino 1997, pp. 3-32.
-M.P. Alberzoni, Chiara d’Assisi e il francescanesimo femminile, in Francesco d’Assisi e il primo secolo di storia francescana, Torino 1997, pp. 203-235.
G. Miccoli, Realtà e memoria di un’esperienza cristiana, Torino 1991 (parti concordate con la docente).

A collection of sources will be distributed during the course. The use of a historical atlas is recommended to support of the knowledges of medieval history necessary for the comprehension of the religious history.

Teaching methods: frontal lessons within a seminary context, reading and analysis of sources.

Examination Methods

oral interviews and possible written reports to be previously agreed with the teacher.

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