Teaching code

4S003242

Teacher

Gian Paolo Romagnani

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• History of Historiography of the course Master's degree in Arts (interuniversity)

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY

Period

1 B dal Nov 15, 2021 al Jan 12, 2022.

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Learning outcomes

The History of Historiography module aims to deepen the problems and methods underlying the work of the historian, introducing the student to some "secrets of the trade". The course also aims to enable the student to "critically read" and "understand" a history book intended as a "product of the historian's work". This does not only mean knowing its content organically, but rather breaking it down by trying to grasp the following elements: a) from which problem the author is moved to write; b) what is the research path behind it; c) what kind of culture does it fit into (historical, political, philosophical, ideological, religious context); d) which sources were used and how; e) which methodological approaches have been adopted; f) what new contribution the book has brought to the historical discipline. At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate to be able to overcome the manual simplifications (producing unwitting stereotypes) and the historiographic clichés, verifying the most well-known interpretative schemes on the sources and texts; to be able to critically read a history book, contextualizing it in the political and cultural framework in which it was conceived, highlighting its methodological references and demonstrating knowledge of the author, his historiographical production and his course of study. By adopting complementary teaching methods (frontal lectures, lectures held by students on the texts studied, seminar meetings, text and source analysis laboratory) the course aims to provide the essential elements to understand the main trends in historiography from antiquity to the present day.

Program

The introductory module will be dedicated, as every year, to a general profile of the history of Western historiography from antiquity to the present day, with particular attention to the historiography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The monographic part will instead deal with the history of the interpretations of the Risorgimento by Italian and foreign historiography between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Bibliography

Examination Methods

Oral examination. The interview focuses on the main lines of the history of Western historiography and on in-depth readings and aims to ascertain the student's ability to critically read a book, identifying its historiographic implications. The exam must also ascertain: the property of language and the conscious use of categories and historiographic terms, analytical and argumentative skills, the ability to contextualize a problem and make connections between different themes; the ability to formulate new problems starting from the readings made.

By exam sessions we mean:
1. The autumn session (September)
2. The winter session (January-February)
3. The summer session (June-July)

There is no difference in the approach to the exam between attending and non-attending students.