Teaching code

4S001217

Teacher

Federico Barbierato

Coordinator

Federico Barbierato

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Early Modern History I - LM [Sede VR] of the course Master's degree in Arts (interuniversity)
• Early Modern History (m) of the course Master’s degree in Tradition and Interpretation of Literary Texts

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY

Period

CuCi IA, CuCi IB

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

Acquisition of a good command of the research tools related to early modern history, so that the student is able to critically use the sources and scientific literature related to one or more themes chosen as central to the course. The teaching activity will therefore aim to develop the individual research skills of the student as much as possible.

Program

The first part of the course aims to provide students with the main coordinates for the in-depth study of the fundamental themes of early modern society and culture. The second part will be focused The second part will focus on the theme of diabolical possession in the early modern age. This section will be divided into a first part of presentation of general problems and a second part dedicated to the in-depth seminar of some issues through the direct analysis of sources. This last aspect is the fundamental element of the course, which will have a profoundly seminar structure. All students are therefore invited to participate actively and should be willing to work during the course on the texts provided. They should also be willing to discuss their reading impressions freely with the teacher and other students. Active participation will be a key element of assessment for learners and will involve ongoing work on individual readings and classroom discussions. The frequency is therefore only recommended if the participation will be active. In other words: the lessons will be discussed openly and freely (because this is a seminar) about what you will read, individually or in a group, during the course and all students should feel comfortable in exposing their points of view, obviously within the limits of education and mutual respect. Both attending and not attending students, will have to study the book M. Bellabarba e V. Lavenia (a cura di), Introduzione alla storia moderna, il Mulino, Bologna, 2018. Knowledge of the text will be ascertained by means of a written test with open questions. As far as the monographic part is concerned, the students attending the course will write a paper on one or some of the documents analysed during the course. The paper must be delivered by e-mail at least a few days before the oral examination, in which it will be discussed Those who do not attend must prepare two texts of their choice: - C. Franceschini, Storia del limbo, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2017 - L. Addante, Tommaso Campanella. Il filosofo immaginato, interpretato, falsato, Laterza, Bari, 2018 - F. Young, Possessione. Esorcismo ed esorcisti nella storia della Chiesa cattolica, Carocci, Roma, 2018 - P. Scaramella, Gli amici dell'aldilà. Saggi di storia religiosa (sec. XV-XIX), Aracne, Roma, 2018 - R. Darnton, Il grande massacro dei gatti e altri episodi della storia culturale francese, Adelphi, Milano, 2013. - F.P. De Ceglia, Il segreto di san Gennaro. Storia naturale di un miracolo napoletano, Einaudi, Torino, 2016 - N. Cusumano, Ebrei e accusa di omicidio rituale nel settecento. Il carteggio tra Girolamo Tartarotti e Benedetto Bonelli (1740-1748), Unicopli, Milano, 2012 - T. Kauffmann, I redenti e i salvati. Una storia della Riforma, Einaudi, Torino, 2018 - F. Trivellato, Il commercio interculturale. La diaspora sefardita, Livorno e i traffici globali in età moderna, Viella, Roma, 2016 - A. Prosperi, Un volgo disperso. Contadini d'Italia nell'Ottocento, Einaudi, Torino, 2019 - E.P. Thompson, Società patrizia, cultura plebea. Otto saggi di antropologia storica sull'Inghilterra del Settecento, Einaudi, Torino, 1981; - R.W. Scribner, Per il popolo dei semplici. Propaganda popolare nella Riforma tedesca, Unicopli, Milano 2008. R. Chartier, La mano dell'autore, la mente dello stampatore. Cultura e scrittura nell'Europa moderna, Carocci, Roma, 2015 - A. Tenca, Dinosauri, demoni, operai. Una storia culturale del sottosuolo tra scienza e letteratura, Unicopli, Milano, 2020 - G. Levi, L'eredità immateriale. Carriera di un esorcista nel Piemonte del Seicento, il Saggiatore, Milano, 2019 - E. Cameron, Enchanted Europe superstition, reason, and religion, 1250-1750, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010 - C. Zika, The Appearance of Witchcraft. Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe, Routledge, London, 2007 - C. Walker Bynum, Christian Materiality. An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe, Zone Books, New York, 2011 - M. Sluhovsky, Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, & Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007 - J.-P. Cavaillé, Les Déniaisés. Irréligion et libertinage au début de l’époque moderne, Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2014 - M. Mulsow, Enlightenment Underground. Radical Germany, 1680-1720, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2015

Examination Methods

General section
The assessment of the knowledge of the book Bellabarba, Lavenia, Introduzione alla storia moderna, will consist of a written test and open questions for all - both attending and not attending students. Students will have to demonstrate their knowledge of the main junctions of the history of the modern age, placing them critically within the context.

Monographic part.
The examination will take place in oral form.
For the attending students: a written paper will be requested, whose subject will be agreed with the teacher. In addition to the latter, which will have to demonstrate critical thinking skills in relation to the sources on which it will be based, active participation in the course will also be evaluated.

For those who do not attend: it is planned to read two books of choice among those proposed. The oral interview will test the knowledge of the texts and students will have to demonstrate their ability to place the topics in a correct and critical way.