HISTORY OF VENICE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- Academic year
- 2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA DI VENEZIA NEL MEDIO EVO SP.
- Course code
- FM0450 (AF:353999 AR:186442)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- M-STO/01
- Period
- 2nd Semester
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
The disciplinary and methodological purposes of the course are: the knowledge and the ability to understand critically and deeply the dynamics of political, social and institutional development of Venice from the Middle Ages to the thresholds of the modern era; the knowledge of the historiographical debate, and of the peculiarities of the historical investigation in relation to the discipline, with specific reference to the various problems related to the sources for the study of the history of Venice in the Middle Ages. The purposes include: the ability to autonomously identify cases study and to carry them out; the competence in communicating the acquired contents and the results obtained with appropriate and clear vocabulary.
The achievement of the purposes allows the student to have the cultural, disciplinary and methodological knowledge to enter professionally in the teaching, publishing or in areas related to the conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage, with educational and cultural dissemination, with historical research, with human resources.
Expected learning outcomes
The knowledge learned allows to acquire the ability to identify changes and resilience phenomena in the historical processes under examination; to orientate yourself in the vast panorama of the medieval testimonies of Venetian history; to use the tools provided by the web for the discipline (sites, digital databases, online projects).
The knowledge learned allows also to acquire the ability: to independently identify a research topic worthy of further study; to retrieve the useful testimonies to the elaborated research project; to deal with it in a possibly multidisciplinary dimension; to deal with sector studies; to communicate finally, in oral or written form using traditional and computerized channels, the results of the personal investigation and study with language suited to the discipline.
Pre-requirements
Contents
In the second part of the course is organised a seminar. It guides each student to the identification of a case study, to be studied on the sources and with the aid of critical literature. General theme of the seminar is: "Political communication between center and peripheral communities in medieval Venice (XIII-XV cent.)".
For non-attending students there is a substitute study program for the seminar part and a supplementary bibliography for the part performed during the lectures (general / institutional part).
Referral texts
A) Required: personal notes and materials presented in class
Supplementary texts (not required):
-Ortalli G., Venezia dalle origini a Pietro II Orseolo, in Storia d'Italia, dir. by G. Galasso, vol. I, Torino 1980, pp. 341-438
-Cracco G., Venezia nel Medioevo: un "altro mondo", in Storia d'Italia, dir. by G. Galasso, vol. VII, Torino 1987, pp. 1-157
-Lane F.C., Storia di Venezia, Torino 1978 or following editions (or. ed. 1973), in particolare pp. 1-282
Useful for consultation (not required):
-Maranini G., La costituzione di Venezia, Firenze 1974, 2 vols.
-Zordan G., L'ordinamento giuridico veneziano, Padova 1980
-Storia di Venezia, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1991- (vols. 1-5 and 12)
B) Further information will be provided for the seminar at the beginning of the course.
Non-attending students
Required:
A) In lieu of the lectures (general / institutional part):
-Ortalli G., Venezia dalle origini a Pietro II Orseolo, in Storia d'Italia, diretta da G. Galasso, vol. I, Torino 1980, pp. 341-438
-Cracco G., Venezia nel Medioevo: un "altro mondo", in Storia d'Italia, diretta da G. Galasso, vol. VII, Torino 1987, pp. 1-157
or
-Lane F.C., Storia di Venezia, Torino 1978 or following ed. (ed. or. 1973), in particular pp. 1-282
B) In place of the seminar work
-Il commonwealth veneziano tra 1204 e la fine della Repubblica. Identità e peculiarità, ed. by G. Ortalli, O.J Schmitt, E. Orlando, Venezia 2015
-Roesch G., Venezia e l'impero: 962-1250. I rapporti politici, commerciali e di traffico nel periodo imperiale germanico, Roma 1985
Useful first consultation tools (not required):
-Maranini G., La costituzione di Venezia, Firenze 1974, 2 vols.
-Zordan G., L'ordinamento giuridico veneziano, Padova 1980
-Storia di Venezia, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1991- (vols. 1-5 e 12)
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Assessment methods
For attending students: oral and written test. For the program carried out during the lectures (general / institutional) oral examination: the teacher will consider as such the participation and interventions of the candidate during the course, any exercises assigned and carried out at home. For the seminar part, a written report will be written and sent by e-mail to the teacher. The report is presented and shared in a final seminar meeting to be agreed together at the beginning of the course. The tests (oral and written) are each graded in thirtieths. The final grade is given by the average of the results of the individual tests.
For non-attending students: oral and written examination. For the substitutive part of the lectures (general / institutional) oral examination. For the substitute part of the seminar work (the two monographs), written report of each monograph, to be sent by e-mail to the teacher one week before the oral exam.
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Teaching methods
Sources and other materials presented in class are available on the University's Moodle e-learning platform.
Course attendance is useful and recommended, but not required.
Teaching language
Further information
WHO IS ATTENDING STUDENT
Attending students are those who participate in presence or remotely, live, to the lessons and follow the examination program established for attending students (oral examination, as specified, and written report to be presented in a concluding seminar).
WHO IS NOT ATTENDING STUDENT
Non-attending students are those who do not participate to the lectures (in presence or live distance).
The non-attending students can also follow the lessons in deferred (recordings) and as exam program agree on a topic to be studied in depth on which to write a report, to be sent to the teacher a week before the call. At the oral exam the candidate will discuss the report and answer some questions on the general part (recordings).
The teacher is available by mail or receipt for any eventual integration of information on the course, in particular for non-attending students and the Erasmus program.
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