Learning outcomes

Formative goals: a) the knowledge of the history of Europe in the mediaeval Millennium; b) competence in the interpretation and in the analysis of the historical settings in which the students live, also in connection with their specific profession of educator; c) in the meantime students are directed to improve the methods of historical research guided by the teacher, through the study of the specific case of Belief and Disbelief in the Middle Ages.

Program

These goals are pursued:

a) with the study of the handbook: P. GOLINELLI, Breve storia dell’Europa medievale, Bologna, Pàtron, 2004, explained during the course.

b) MAIN COURSE:
Belief and Disbelief in the Middle Ages

to prepare with notes from the lessons, and the study of the medieval sources introduced to the students during lessons, and available from the teacher.

In adjunction, the students have to read: P. GOLINELLI, Il Medioevo degli increduli, Milano, Mursia, 2009.

c) With a personal paper discussed with the teacher (a short 10 pages essay; a film; a Computer presentation; etc.), or a 3 pages book report, from the following list:

1) M. BACCI, Lo spazio dell’anima. Vita di una chiesa medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006;
2) S. BOESCH GAJANO, Gregorio Magno. Alle origini del Medioevo, Roma, Viella, 2004;
3) CARDINI F., Le cento novelle contro la morte. Giovanni Boccaccio e la rifondazione cavalleresca del mondo, Salerno ed., Roma 2007.
4) CHERUBINI G. , Il lavoro, la taverna, la strada. Scorci di Medioevo, Liguori, Napoli 1997.
5) G. DUBY, Il cavaliere, la donna e il prete, Roma-Bari, Laterza, varie edizioni;
6) H. FUHRMANN, Guida al Medioevo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006;
7) V. FUMAGALLI, Paesaggi della paura, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1994;
8) P. GOLINELLI, Medioevo Romantico, Milano, Mursia, 2011;
9) J. LE GOFF (a cura di), L’uomo medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, varie edizioni (6 figure + Introd.)
10) L. PAOLINI, Eretici del Medioevo. L'albero selvatico, Bologna, Pàtron, 1989.
11) Il riso. Capacità di ridere e pratica del riso nelle civiltà medievali, a cura di F. Mosetti Cesaretto, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria 2005
12) ARNOLD J.H., Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe, Hodder Arnold, London 2005.
13) BOZÓKY E., La politique des reliques de Constantin à saint Louis. Protection collective et légitimation du pouvoir, Beauchesne, Paris 2006.
14) DINZELBACHER P., Unglaube im „Zeitalter des Glaubes“. Atheismus und Skeptizismus im Mittelalter, Vissenschaftlicher Verlag Bachmann, Badenweiler 2009.

Examination Methods

Oral Exam after a multiple choice test on the History of the Middles Ages