Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Medieval History, History of Christianity and Churches
Early Modern History I - LM (Historical Anthropology)
Contemporary History I - LM
History of Science and Technology - LM
One course to be chosen among the following
History of Political Institutions II
History of Political Thought
A course to be chosen among the following
A course to be chosen among the following
Contemporary Italian Literature II
History of Contemporary Art II - LM
History of Medieval Art I
History of Modern Art II
Italian Philology II (Medieval and Humanistic Philology)
Medieval Latin Literature II
Digital tools for historical research
Further linguistic competence (Historiografical concepts in English, French, German and Spanish-speaking context)
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Medieval History, History of Christianity and Churches
Early Modern History I - LM (Historical Anthropology)
Contemporary History I - LM
History of Science and Technology - LM
One course to be chosen among the following
History of Political Institutions II
History of Political Thought
A course to be chosen among the following
A course to be chosen among the following
Contemporary Italian Literature II
History of Contemporary Art II - LM
History of Medieval Art I
History of Modern Art II
Italian Philology II (Medieval and Humanistic Philology)
Medieval Latin Literature II
Digital tools for historical research
Further linguistic competence (Historiografical concepts in English, French, German and Spanish-speaking context)
Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Early Modern History I - LM (Historical Anthropology) [Sede VR] (2015/2016)
Teaching code
4S001217
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Also offered in courses:
- Early Modern History (m) of the course Postgraduate Degree in Art Studies
- Historical anthropology (m) of the course Master’s degree in Tradition and Interpretation of Literary Texts
- Early Modern History I - LM [Sede VR] of the course Master's degree in Arts (interuniversity)
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY
Period
Semestrino IA, Semestrino IB
Learning outcomes
Educational objectives
To acquire awareness of the difference between societies and cultures chronologically or geographically distant from one another; to familiarize with research tools which history has developed in conjunction with social theory; to develop strategies for the interpretation of relevant and diverse sources; to appraise the tradition of study in this field and discuss its problems.
Program
Syllabus
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: to acquire awareness of the difference between societies and cultures chronologically or geographically distant from one another; to familiarize with research tools which history has developed in conjunction with social theory; to develop strategies for the interpretation of relevant and diverse sources; to appraise the tradition of study in this field and discuss its problems.
SYLLABUS: The course will concern the various manifestations of magic in the early modern Christian world. The aim is to give account of the characteristics and the role of magical beliefs, of their stability and their changes. Particular attention will be given to modulations of magic in different social and cultural contexts, from natural magic to witchcraft and ‘superstitious’ uses of the sacred. Historical anthropology will represent the proposed methodology, with focus on a specific period of time, but chronologically open to modernity.
Therefore, the first part of the course will offer a survey of the basic concepts in historical anthropology. Subsequently, the aspects of magic (and of related cultural tools, such as astrology and alchemy) will be examined from a theoretical perspective, to move eventually to the structure of a seminar on bibliography and sources (autobiographies, inquisition trials, reports, treatises and so on). This format will require an active participation of students – which will form a key element of the final assessment of their work – systematically combining individual reading and class discussion. Attendance is therefore recommended only if it can be continuous and active.
Reference books:
For those students who will be attending lessons the exam bibliography will be given during the course; P.P. Viazzo, Introduzione all’antropologia storica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2000 will be required reading.
Those who will not be attending will read P.P. Viazzo’s volume and three of the following books, or groups of books, of their choice:
- G. Ferigo, Morbida facta pecus. Scritti di antropologia storica della Carnia, Forum, Udine, 2012
- J.H. Hajes, Posseduti ed esorcisti nel mondo ebraico, Bollati Boringhieri, Milano, 2010;
- J.H. Arnold, Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe, Bloomsbury, London, 2010;
- E.E. Evans Pritchard, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2002;
- M. Caffiero (a cura di), Magia, superstizione, religione. Una questione di confini, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma, 2015;
- M. Douglas, Purezza e pericolo. Un’analisi dei concetti di contaminazione e tabù, il Mulino, Bologna, 2003;
- D. Freedberg, Il potere delle immagini. Il mondo delle figure: reazioni e emozioni del pubblico, Einaudi, Torino, 2009.
- P. Brown, La società e il sacro nella tarda antichità, Einaudi, Torino, 1988;
- G. Delille, L'economia di Dio. Famiglia e mercato tra cristianesimo, ebraismo, Islam, Salerno libri, Roma, 2013
- C. Zika, The Appearance of Witchcraft. Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe, Routledge, London, 2007
- G. Levi, L’eredità immateriale. La carriera di un esorcista nel Piemonte del Seicento, Einaudi, Torino, 1985;
- C. Walker Bynum, Christian Materiality. An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe, Zone Books, New York, 2011
- E.P. Thompson, Società patrizia, cultura plebea. Otto saggi di antropologia storica sull'Inghilterra del Settecento, Einaudi, Torino, 1981;
- E. Bever, The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe. Culture, Cognition and Everyday Life, Palgrave-MacMillan, Houndmills, 2008;
- R. Darnton, Il grande massacro dei gatti e altri episodi della storia culturale francese, Adelphi, Milano 1988;
- J. Goody, L’addomesticamento del pensiero selvaggio, FrancoAngeli, Milano 1990 – da leggere assieme a D.F. McKenzie, La sociologia di un testo. Oralità, alfabetismo e stampa all'inizio del XIX secolo, in Id., Il passato è il prologo, edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard, Milano 2002, pp. 43-91;
- M. Sluhovsky, Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, & Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007
- K. Crawford, European Sexualities. 1400-1800, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007;
- V. Kevelson, Desperate Magic. The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeendth-Century Russia, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2013
NB. Alternative, personalized reading lists may be agreed upon by contacting the lecturer via email.
Examination Methods
Exam methods
For those students who will be attending lessons: essay on a previously agreed topic, followed by oral interview.
For those who will not be attending: oral interview.