Teaching code

4S003242

Academic staff

Alessandro Arcangeli, Federica Bertagna, Mariaclara Rossi

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Fonti e tendenze per la ricerca storica (m) of the course Master's degree in History of the Arts

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/01 - MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Period

1 A, 1 B

Location

VERONA

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

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Program

The ‘Sources for historical research’ module will start from the ways historical knowledge is built and from the concept of document, to illustrate, in relation to different historical periods as well as to different historiographic approaches, some types of sources and the challenges involved in their use. Sources for demographic, economic, social, gender, political, judicial, religious, intellectual and cultural history will be illustrated. Special attention will be paid to sources for oral history. The documentary value of images and objects will not be overlooked. As far as possible, we will also aim to invite experts to lectures and organise guided visits to libraries and archives.
Bibliography, mandatory readings:
- Paolo Cammarosano, Guida allo studio della storia medievale, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2014 (edizione digitale), cap. 3, “Le fonti”;
- Roberto Bizzocchi, Guida allo studio della storia moderna, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2002, cap. 3, “Le fonti”, pp. 83-122;
- Vittorio Vidotto, Guida allo studio della storia contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008, cap. 3, “La ricerca e le fonti”, pp. 91-119;
- Ludmilla Jordanova, The Look of the Past. Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, cap. 4, “Audiences and display”, pp. 154-187;
- Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o mestiere di storico (any edition), cap. 2 e cap. 3;
- Attilio Bartoli Langeli, Il testamento di Enrico Scrovegni (12 marzo 1336), in Chiara Frugoni, L’affare migliore di Enrico. Giotto e la cappella Scrovegni, Einaudi, Torino 2008, pp. 397-539;
- Emanuele Curzel, Gli inventari quattrocenteschi del monastero-ospedale di Santa Maria di Campiglio, in «Studi Trentini. Storia», 99 (2020), pp. 353-372;
- Attilio Bartoli Langeli, Maria Teresa Brolis, Gianmarco De Angelis, Le fonti della storia religiosa: dai documenti alla storiografia, in Dal “Medioevo cristiano” alla “Storia religiosa” del medioevo, «Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale», 22/1 (2019), pp. 75-110.
Those who do not attend classes must, in addition, study:
- Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o mestiere di storico - in full;
- Marc Bloch, La guerra e le false notizie. Ricordi (1914-1915) e riflessioni (1921), Donzelli, Roma 1994, pp. 79-108.
Further bibliographic information will be provided in class and supplementary materials posted on the moodle, without constituting mandatory reading for the purpose of passing the exam.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Frontal lessons possibly interspersed with others of a seminar nature. There will also be an invitation to lectures by experts and guided visits to archives and libraries. In some cases the lessons will include exercises.

Learning assessment procedures

Oral interview and optional essay, to be agreed with the lecturers, aiming at assessing the student's ability to evaluate the potentialities of the different historical sources for the reconstruction of the past.

Evaluation criteria

The evaluation of the exam will take into account the specific knowledge acquired as well as the sensitivity developed for the potential and problems offered by each type of source considered.

Exam language

Italiano