Teaching code

4S001216

Teacher

Mariaclara Rossi

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Forms of Religious Life in the Christian West of the course Master's degree in Philosophy
• Hystory of Christianity and of the Churches [Sede VR] of the course Master's degree in Arts (interuniversity)

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/07 - HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY AND OF CHURCHES

Period

1 A dal Sep 26, 2022 al Nov 5, 2022.

Location

VERONA

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

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Program

Church and Women in the Christian West (Ancient and Middle Ages).
The course aims to investigate bibliography and sources (some example of documentary, literary, hagiographic sources) concerning the relationship, sometimes very problematic, between Christian religion and women from the origin of Christianity to Late Middle Ages. Together with the evolution and historical development of that relationship some thematic itineraries, exemplifying the attendance / exclusion of women from the life of the Church, will be presented.
Bibliografia:
-A. Valerio, Donne Chiesa. Una storia di genere, Roma 2016.
-E. Prinzivalli, Percorsi accidentati e indomiti: la vita religiosa femminile nel cristianesimo dal I al XVIII secolo, in La vita religiosa nella storia del cristianesimo. Un itinerario dalle origini all’età contemporanea, a cura di Emmanuel Albano, Basilica di San Nicola Editore, Modugno (Bari) 2016, pp. 143-205.
-Vita religiosa al femminile (secoli XIII-XIV), Viella, Centro Italiano di studi di storia e d’arte di Pistoia 2019.
-J. Dalarun, La donna vista dai chierici, in Storia delle donne, a cura di G. Duby e M. Pierrot: Il medioevo, a cura di C. Klapisch-Zuber, Roma-Bari 1990, pp. 24-55.

Paths of women:
-Verdiana da Castelfiorentino. Contesto storico, tradizione agiografica e iconografia, a cura di Silvia Nocentini, Sismel-Edizioni del Galluzzo, Firenze 2011.
-A. Vauchez, Caterina da Siena. Una mistica trasgressiva, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2018.
C. Frugoni, Una solitudine abitata. Chiara d’Assisi, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.
M. Benedetti, Io non sono Dio. Guglielma da Milano e i Figli dello Spirito Santo, Biblioteca Francescana Edizioni, Milano 2004, to be read together with: Milano 1300. I processi inquisitoriali contro le devote e i devoti di santa Guglielma, a cura di M. Benedetti, Libri Scheiwiller, Milano 1999.
A. Bartolomei Romagnoli, Le Vitae Matrum di Tommaso di Cantimpré, in Eadem, Santità e mistica femminile nel medioevo, Cisam, Spoleto 2013, pp. 103-149, to be read together with: A. Bartolomei Romagnoli, La pia Lutgarda, mistica del cuore, ibidem, pp. 151-211.
M. Zangari, Santità femminile e disturbi mentali fra Medioevo ed Età Moderna, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2022.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Teaching methods:
For students attending the course the main teaching methods will be the traditional lecture, interspersed with seminar type discussions where students will have an opportunity to raise particular questions and issues. In this course there will also be a mid-course evaluation consisting of a paper/presentation to be given by the student on the topics developed in the lectures. During the lectures a collection of sources will be distributed and examined which will constitute part of the programme. Other bibliographic references useful for an exploration of the topic will be provided over the course of the lectures.
Activities supporting the teaching: seminars, meetings and conferences on the topics of Christianity recommended or organized by the teacher.

Learning assessment procedures

Examination methods:
Oral interviews. The oral exam will be an interview covering the topics that were dealt with during the lectures and expanded on in the study manuals. The interview will aim to determine:
-the students’ knowledge of the topic,
-their ability to use a specialised language,
-their ability to make connections between various arguments and to argue points in an appropriate manner,
-their ability to read and contextualize an archive source.

Evaluation criteria

Assessment Criteria
To pass the examination, students must be able to develop individual arguments from a source. They should contextualise the source by presenting it with appropriate vocabulary and link it to the general theme of the course and the bibliography.

Exam language

Italiano