Teaching code

4S02137

Credits

12

Coordinatore

Gian Maria Varanini

Language

Italian

Moodle Seminars

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

Overall, the two teachings - introductory and advanced - aim to provide the student with the skills necessary to orient themselves independently in a problem of medieval history. In the introductory course, therefore, the teacher underlines some aspects that will be then deepened and recalled in the progress course. During the advanced course, a direct analysis of medieval sources and documents is foreseen (translated into Italian).

Program

The introductory course of Medieval History consists of illustrating the main aspects of the political, social, cultural, economic, religious and cultural evolution of the European West from the 4th to the 15th centuries.The didactic approach is predominantly the traditional lecture (taught lessons).
Lesson Topics
The late ancient crisis; The barbarian kingdoms; The Christianization of Europe; The carolingian empire; the early medieval economy; Europe in the Xth century; The economic and social expansion of Europe in the 11th and subsequent centuries; Rural lordship and European campaigns; e Urban development and the Italian Commune; The reform of the Church; The twelfth century; Affirmation and crisis of universal powers; Apogee and crisis of the Holy Roman Empire; The affirmation of national monarchies; The crisis of the common Italian; The crisis of universal powers and the great schism; The regional state in Italy.

The goal of the advanced course of Medieval History is to guide the student to critical analysis of historical sources and to develop his ability to analyze a historical problem in its complexity. The theme chosen is as follows: "Forms of government in the Italian city of the fourteenth and fifteenth century: the lordship".

Bibliography

Examination Methods

During the exam, through a series of questions of different characteristics and organized progressively (from more general topics to more specific questions), the aim is to ascertain the ability of the student to place a problem in the history of the Middle Ages Western in a correct way in time and space and to critically evaluate the documentation that allows to deepen it.