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Laurea in Beni culturali - Immatricolazione dal 2025/2026.

COMPETENZE TRASVERSALI

Scopri i percorsi formativi promossi dal  Teaching and learning centre dell'Ateneo, destinati agli studenti iscritti ai corsi di laurea, volti alla promozione delle competenze trasversali:
Academic year:
Cuci 1 A From 9/26/22 To 11/5/22
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° 3° FAI Activities F Edoardo Bianchi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Series of conferences Don Nicola Mazza University College F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Business English for everybody F Serena Dal Maso (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Russian for everybody F Serena Dal Maso (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Training days for landscape administrators F Fabio Saggioro (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Intercomprehension laboratory between the Romance languages F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Worlds of Fashion: Themes and Actors F Alessandra Zamperini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Music in History F Vincenzo Borghetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Discovery and re-discovery of a city: Verona in the heart of the Roman Empire F Riccardo Bertolazzi (Coordinator)
CuCi 1 B From 11/14/22 To 12/22/22
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° 3° FAI Activities F Edoardo Bianchi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Series of conferences Don Nicola Mazza University College F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Conference PRIN "Ippolito Nievo tra i Mille" F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Business English for everybody F Serena Dal Maso (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Russian for everybody F Serena Dal Maso (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Memorial Day F Renato Camurri (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Intercomprehension laboratory between the Romance languages F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Worlds of Fashion: Themes and Actors F Alessandra Zamperini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Music in History F Vincenzo Borghetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Discovery and re-discovery of a city: Verona in the heart of the Roman Empire F Riccardo Bertolazzi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Contemporary history seminars F Renato Camurri (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Workshop. Directive (UE) 2019/790 and Italian Guidelines for Cultural Heritage digitalization, between Copyright and Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape (D.lgs 42/2004 F Patrizia Basso (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Workshop: the archaeological data and content production process between guidelines for preventive archaeology, copyright, public procurement code F Piergiovanna Grossi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Squadristi in celluloid. The march on Rome between documentary and fiction F Denis Lotti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Text, author, audience. The forms of reception from antiquity to modernity F Massimo Natale (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Wikipedia and digital humanities: laboratory for translation and digitization of cultural heritage F Patrizia Basso (Coordinator)
CuCi 2 A From 2/13/23 To 4/6/23
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° 3° FAI Activities F Edoardo Bianchi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° That scandalous can: Piero Manzoni’s Artist’s Shit (1961). International conference F Luca Bochicchio (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Democrazie e fascismo F Renato Camurri (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Graphic and photographic documentation of the archaeological artefacts: from traditional drawings to digital sources F Diana Sergeeva Dobreva (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Fine della "globalizzazione"? Dialoghi sul mondo che cambia F Giovanni Bernardini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Seminar Day “I would annex the planets if I could”. Representations of exploration and conquest between 19th and 20th century F Luca Ciancio (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° The journey of an intellectual between Italy and the United States during fascism: Giuseppe Antonio Borgese F Renato Camurri (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Introduction to reading archival documents F Mariaclara Rossi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Introduction to robotics for humanities students F Paolo Fiorini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Intercomprehension laboratory between the Romance languages F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Workshop on the History of Manuscript Illumination F Margherita Zibordi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Opera Workshop F Nicola Pasqualicchio (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Reading the Middle Ages. Authors, Meetings, Debates F Marco Stoffella (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Works on display, 2023. Alessandro Turchi known as Orbetto, painter on copper and blackboard: the Madonna and Child with Saints Peter the Martyr, Zeno and Tuscany. F Giorgio Fossaluzza (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Web for Cultural Heritage F Piergiovanna Grossi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Recognising and making oneself known. Signs and proofs of identity in the Renaissance (Italy and France) F Florence Marie Buttay (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Discovery and re-discovery of a city: Verona in the heart of the Roman Empire F Riccardo Bertolazzi (Coordinator)
CuCi 2 B From 4/12/23 To 5/27/23
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° 3° FAI Activities F Edoardo Bianchi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Meeting cycle «Anniversari» F Fabio Danelon (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Conference "Franca Rame, not only an actress" F Nicola Pasqualicchio (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Conversations F Nicola Pasqualicchio (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Democrazie e fascismo F Renato Camurri (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Graphic and photographic documentation of the archaeological artefacts: from traditional drawings to digital sources F Diana Sergeeva Dobreva (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Ferments, experiments and meetings on the Italian dance and theatre scene between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries F Simona Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Festival of journalism F Simona Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Fine della "globalizzazione"? Dialoghi sul mondo che cambia F Giovanni Bernardini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° The journey of an intellectual between Italy and the United States during fascism: Giuseppe Antonio Borgese F Renato Camurri (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Introduction to reading archival documents F Mariaclara Rossi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Introduction to robotics for humanities students F Paolo Fiorini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Intercomprehension laboratory between the Romance languages F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Workshop on the History of Manuscript Illumination F Margherita Zibordi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Opera Workshop F Nicola Pasqualicchio (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Reading the Middle Ages. Authors, Meetings, Debates F Marco Stoffella (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Web for Cultural Heritage F Piergiovanna Grossi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Recognising and making oneself known. Signs and proofs of identity in the Renaissance (Italy and France) F Florence Marie Buttay (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Archaeological excavation in Negrar (VR) F Patrizia Basso (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Archaeological excavation at PIURO (SO) F Fabio Saggioro (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Discovery and re-discovery of a city: Verona in the heart of the Roman Empire F Riccardo Bertolazzi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Workshop "Visual Art Collection Management and Curating - Realismo Magico" F Monica Molteni (Coordinator)
List of courses with unassigned period
years Modules TAF Teacher
Subject requirements: logical and argumentative skills D Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Conference Civici Museum Verona F Tiziana Franco (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Know to respect and respect each other F Nicoletta Zerman (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° International Congress CRIER “Verona at the Centre of Europe: Diplomacy, Literature and the Arts at the Congress of 1822” F Paolo Pellegrini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Future's Festival F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° cultural Thursday ISSR Verona F Tiziana Franco (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Laboratory of photo F Carlo Vannini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° For the centenary of the death of Giovanni Verga. Study meeting F Fabio Danelon (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Literature and dance project: Pier Paolo Pasolini (Life, death and miracles) F Nicola Pasqualicchio (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Archaeological fieldwork (Giazza, Verona) F Mara Gioia Migliavacca (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Archaeological fieldwork Monte Palazzo di S. Tomio di malo (Vicenza) F Mara Gioia Migliavacca (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° The house of Erizzo and the image of aristrocracy in Venice F Alessandra Zamperini (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Archaeological excavation in Aquileia (UD) F Patrizia Basso (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Archaeological excavation in Montebaranzone castle (MO) F Nicola Mancassola (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Archaeological excavation in Morfasso (PC) F Nicola Mancassola (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Archaeological excavation in Ostiglia (MN) F Nicola Mancassola (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Archaeological excavation in Toano (RE) F Nicola Mancassola
1° 2° 3° Archaeological research in Tarquinia (VT), Roman forum and “domus del mitreo” F Fabio Saggioro (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° You aint't heard nothing yet. The transition from the silents to the talkies (Bridge Film Festival) F Alberto Scandola (Coordinator)

Teaching code

4S01294

Coordinator

Marco Stoffella

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/01 - MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Period

2 A, 2 B

Learning objectives

The introductory course of Medieval History pursues the objective - shared with other teachings of the historical area - to enable the student to critically evaluate a historical testimony, placing it in the spatial and temporal coordinates of the European Middle Ages. The aim of the advanced course of Medieval History is to guide the student to the critical analysis of historical sources and to develop his / her capacity to analyze a historical problem in its complexity. Overall, the two courses - introductory and advanced - aim to provide students with the necessary skills 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).

Prerequisites and basic notions

Students will be asked to have a basic knowledge of the social and political history of the Middle Ages and curiosity about the past and its complexity.

Program

After a short introduction, during which general concepts like the Middle Ages, historical sources, and their various typologies will be discussed, the course will synthetically analyse the following topics:

- Late Antiquity and the diffusion of Christianity (the growth of new religious communities that became a fundamental element in the Roman Empire and at the same time a tool of government)
- Western Europe in the early Middle Ages and his regna (the end of the Western Roman Empire, migrations, the birth of new political kingdoms based on ethnic distinctions)
- the Byzantine and Islamic Mediterranean (the progressive rupture of the unity of the Mediterranean See under the Arabic expansion and the role of Byzantium)
- Carolingian Europe (Lombard Italy, the Frankish expansion, Charlemagne and the supposed roots of contemporary Europe)
- the seigniorial order (post-Carolingian Europe, the “feudal society”, the control over work and security in the cities and in the countryside)
- Church reforms (the ideological and political conflicts related to the growth of papal prestige and of the Communal autonomy)
- Empire and Papacy in the Late Middle Ages (conflicts related to different concepts and practice of power between political and spiritual authority)
- political institutions of the Late Middle Ages (political experimentations to give equilibrium to representation and participation within society)
- society and culture in the Middle Ages (the various aspects related to knowledge, its access, and its administration)
- Religious experiences in the Middle Ages (principal religious movements that led to reforms and to very different experiences) - the economies of the Middle Ages (the organisation of work and commerce, with a long-lasting perspective)

Some lectures might be thought by specialists; according to the pandemic situation, during the last teaching weeks some excursions could take place. All practical aspects regarding the excursions will be discussed with those attending lectures.

During the academic year the lecturer will receive students during the office hours, published on the web page and in the announcements place; students are recommended to fix via e-mail an appointment with the lecturer.


READINGS FOR ALL STUDENTS:

All students, attending lectures or not, will be asked to study the introductory book: G. Sergi, L’idea di medioevo. Fra storia e senso comune, Rome, Donzelli, 2005.

All students must learn a handbook in Medieval History to be chosen among the following titles: L. Provero, M. Vallerani, Storia medievale, Firenze, Lemonnier, 2022 (second edition); Introduzione alla storia medievale, a cura di G. Albertoni, S.M. Collavini, T. Lazzari, Bologna, il Mulino, 2020 (second edition); A. Zorzi, Manuale di storia medievale, Novara, Utet, 2021 (second edition). Students with a good school knowledge of the Middle Ages might choose the more complex: R. Bordone, G. Sergi, Dieci secoli di medioevo, Torino, Einaudi, 2009.

Finally, the program includes one scientific essay, to be chosen on personal interest, on one of the main topics of the Medieval History, and that will be available in the moodle of the introductory course.

Students attending lectures, and the one inscribed to the course, will receive didactical material related to the lectures on the e-learning platform; these materials are considered part of the exam program; they do not substitute the study of the essay written by Sergi, and the study of one of the handbooks listed above.

Students not attending lectures can receive help by the lecturer to better define the program. All students not attending lectures will be asked to choose an additional book among the following titles: P. Brown, P. Brown, Il riscatto dell’anima. Aldilà e ricchezza nel primo cristianesimo occidentale, Torino, Einaudi, 2015; A. Barbero, Carlo Magno Un padre dell’Europa, Bari, Laterza, 2000; T. Lazzari, Le donne nell’alto Medioevo, Milano-Torino, Bruno Mondadori, 2010; A.A. Settia, Castelli medievali, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017; J.M.H. Smith, L’Europa dopo Roma. Una nuova storia culturale 500-1000, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008; G. Milani, I comuni italiani. Secoli XII-XIV, Bari, Laterza, 2005; C. Wickham, Sonnambuli verso un nuovo mondo. L’affermazione dei comuni italiani nel XII secolo, Roma, Viella, 2017; P. Grillo, Le guerre del Barbarossa. I comuni contro l’imperatore, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014; J.C. Maire Vigueur, E. Faini, Il sistema politico dei comuni italiani (secoli XII-XIV), Milano-Torino, B. Mondadori, 2010; A. Zorzi, Le signorie cittadine in Italia (secoli XIII-XV), Milano-Torino, B. Mondadori, 2010; P. Freedman, Il gusto delle spezie nel Medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009, C. Wickham, L’Europa nel Medioevo, Roma, Carocci, 2020; N. D’Acunto, La lotta per le investiture. Una rivoluzione medievale (998-1122), Roma, Carocci, 2020; L. Provero, Contadini e potere nel Medioevo, Roma, Carocci, 2020; G. Melville, Le comunità religiose nel Medioevo. Storia e modelli di vita, a cura di N. D’Acunto, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2020. The choice of the additional text can be made autonomously; differently it can be discussed with the lecturer during office hours or per e-mail.

Bibliography

Visualizza la bibliografia con Leganto, strumento che il Sistema Bibliotecario mette a disposizione per recuperare i testi in programma d'esame in modo semplice e innovativo.

Didactic methods

Frontal lectures on main subjects will be followed by discussions with students; on some subjects, texts and sources will be read and analysed, followed by a discussion on their content.

Learning assessment procedures

After a short introduction, during which general concepts like the Middle Ages, historical sources, and their various typologies will be discussed, the course will synthetically analyse the following topics:
- Late Antiquity and the diffusion of Christianity (the growth of new religious communities that became a fundamental element in the Roman Empire and at the same time a tool of government)
- Western Europe in the early Middle Ages and his regna (the end of the Western Roman Empire, migrations, the birth of new political kingdoms based on ethnic distinctions)
- the Byzantine and Islamic Mediterranean (the progressive rupture of the unity of the Mediterranean See under the Arabic expansion and the role of Byzantium)
- Carolingian Europe (Lombard Italy, the Frankish expansion, Charlemagne and the supposed roots of contemporary Europe)
- the seigniorial order (post-Carolingian Europe, the “feudal society”, the control over work and security in the cities and in the countryside)
- Church reforms (the ideological and political conflicts related to the growth of papal prestige and of the Communal autonomy)
- Empire and Papacy in the Late Middle Ages (conflicts related to different concepts and practice of power between political and spiritual authority)
- political institutions of the Late Middle Ages (political experimentations to give equilibrium to representation and participation within society)
- society and culture in the Middle Ages (the various aspects related to knowledge, its access, and its administration)
- Religious experiences in the Middle Ages (principal religious movements that led to reforms and to very different experiences) - the economies of the Middle Ages (the organisation of work and commerce, with a long-lasting perspective)
Some lectures might be thought by specialists; according to the pandemic situation, during the last teaching weeks some excursions could take place. All practical aspects regarding the excursions will be discussed with those attending lectures.
During the academic year the lecturer will receive students during the office hours, published on the web page and in the announcements place; students are recommended to fix via e-mail an appointment with the lecturer.
READINGS FOR ALL STUDENTS:
All students, attending lectures or not, will be asked to study the introductory book: G. Sergi, L’idea di medioevo. Fra storia e senso comune, Rome, Donzelli, 2005.
All students must learn a handbook in Medieval History to be chosen among the following titles: L. Provero, M. Vallerani, Storia medievale, Firenze, Lemonnier, 2022 (second edition); Introduzione alla storia medievale, a cura di G. Albertoni, S.M. Collavini, T. Lazzari, Bologna, il Mulino, 2020 (second edition); A. Zorzi, Manuale di storia medievale, Novara, Utet, 2021 (second edition). Students with a good school knowledge of the Middle Ages might choose the more complex: R. Bordone, G. Sergi, Dieci secoli di medioevo, Torino, Einaudi, 2009.
Finally, the program includes one scientific essay, to be chosen on personal interest, on one of the main topics of the Medieval History, and that will be available in the moodle of the introductory course.
Students attending lectures, and the one inscribed to the course, will receive didactical material related to the lectures on the e-learning platform; these materials are considered part of the exam program; they do not substitute the study of the essay written by Sergi, and the study of one of the handbooks listed above.
Students not attending lectures can receive help by the lecturer to better define the program. All students not attending lectures will be asked to choose an additional book among the following titles: P. Brown, P. Brown, Il riscatto dell’anima. Aldilà e ricchezza nel primo cristianesimo occidentale, Torino, Einaudi, 2015; A. Barbero, Carlo Magno Un padre dell’Europa, Bari, Laterza, 2000; T. Lazzari, Le donne nell’alto Medioevo, Milano-Torino, Bruno Mondadori, 2010; A.A. Settia, Castelli medievali, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017; J.M.H. Smith, L’Europa dopo Roma. Una nuova storia culturale 500-1000, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008; G. Milani, I comuni italiani. Secoli XII-XIV, Bari, Laterza, 2005; C. Wickham, Sonnambuli verso un nuovo mondo. L’affermazione dei comuni italiani nel XII secolo, Roma, Viella, 2017; P. Grillo, Le guerre del Barbarossa. I comuni contro l’imperatore, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014; J.C. Maire Vigueur, E. Faini, Il sistema politico dei comuni italiani (secoli XII-XIV), Milano-Torino, B. Mondadori, 2010; A. Zorzi, Le signorie cittadine in Italia (secoli XIII-XV), Milano-Torino, B. Mondadori, 2010; P. Freedman, Il gusto delle spezie nel Medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009, C. Wickham, L’Europa nel Medioevo, Roma, Carocci, 2020; N. D’Acunto, La lotta per le investiture. Una rivoluzione medievale (998-1122), Roma, Carocci, 2020; L. Provero, Contadini e potere nel Medioevo, Roma, Carocci, 2020; G. Melville, Le comunità religiose nel Medioevo. Storia e modelli di vita, a cura di N. D’Acunto, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2020; A.A. Settia, Battaglie medievali, Bologna il Mulino, 2020; R. Santangeli Valenzani, Edilizia residenziale in Italia nnll'altomedioevo, Roma, Carocci, 2011; A. Marcone, Tarda Antichità. Profilo storico e prospettive storiografiche, Roma, Carocci, 2020. The choice of the additional text can be made autonomously; differently it can be discussed with the lecturer during office hours or per e-mail.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Evaluation criteria

The target of the final oral exam is to verify the achievement level of this course. Questions will be based on knowledge acquired through the study of handbooks and material provided by the lecturer and published in the Moodle. The exams last the time necessary to understand the quality and the width of students' knowledge.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The oral exam will be expressed in thirtieth and will divided into two parts: in the first part students will be asked to answer to general questions on the main topics of the Middle Ages according to the essay of Sergi, on the topics discussed during lectures or on topics acquired through the study of the handbook. The second part will devotes to further knowledge acquired through the study of essays.

Exam language

Italiano