MEDIEVAL HISTORY - II

Academic year
2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
STORIA MEDIEVALE II
Course code
FT0255 (AF:362026 AR:191106)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6 out of 12 of MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Subdivision
A
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
M-STO/01
Period
2nd Term
Where
VENEZIA
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The course is part of the core educational activities of the Bachelor's degree programme in History.
By the end of the course, student should have developed a good knowledge of the medieval centuries in their social, economic and political aspect, together with the major sources for their study and the most relevant historiographical questions.
No one in particualar is required.
The transformation of the ancient word between the end of the Roman Empire and the rise of Modern Age.
Persistence and change will prinicipally analyze in Europe, but attention will be also dedicate to North Africa and Near East. Together with social, economich and military aspect, single gappenings, characters and literary as well as artistic works will be scrutinized in detail.
Attending students:
1. Teaching materials provided in classroom and available online (Moodle platform);
2. Franco Cardini, Marina Montesano, Storia medievale, II ed., Milano: Le Monnier Università, 2019.

Non attending students:
1. Franco Cardini, Marina Montesano, Storia medievale, II ed., Milano: Le Monnier Università, 2019.
2. G. Sergi, L'idea di medioevo. Fra storia e senso comune, Roma, Donzelli, 1998-2005;

3. One of the following texts:
- Cantarella, G., Il sole e la luna: La rivoluzione di Gregorio VII papa 1073–1085, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005;
- Demurger, A., I cavalieri di Cristo. Gli ordini religioso-militari del medioevo, Milano, Garzanti, 2004;
- Di Branco, M., 915: La battaglia del Garigliano; Cristiani e musulmani nell'Italia medievale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;
- Di Carpegna Falconieri, T., Medioevo militante: La politica di oggi alle prese con barbari e crociati, Torino, Einaudi, 2011;
- Duby, G., Lo specchio del Feudalesimo: Sacerdoti, guerrieri e lavoratori, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 1980;
- Duby, G., Le origini dell'economia europea. Guerrieri e contadini nel medioevo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004;
- Gasparri, S., Desiderio, Roma: Salerno, 2019
- Le Goff, J. (a c. di), L’uomo medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1987;
- Lett, D., Uomini e donne nel medioevo. Storia del genere (secoli XII-XV), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014;
- Montanari, M., Alimentazione e cultura nel Medioevo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988;
- Pohl, W., Le origini etniche dell’Europa, Roma, Viella, 2000;
- Settia, A., Rapine, assedi, battaglie: La guerra nel Medioevo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002;
- Toubert, P. Dalla terra ai castelli. Paesaggio, agricoltura e poteri nell'Italia medievale, Torino, Einaudi, 1997
- Tramontana, S., Il Mezzogiorno medievale: Normanni, svevi, angioini, aragonesi nei secoli XI–XV, Roma, Carocci, 2018.
Oral or written exam at the end of the course according to the calendar.
The course will be held over 60 hours (12 ECTS) and classes will be focused on archival sources and historical researches in order to learn how to analyse critically history processes and to frame hypotheses and interpretation of facts as proposed by chosen topics.
In the academic year 2021-2022 there will be two courses on Medieval History for 12 cfu called A and B. In the second semester the corse will be teached by Prof. Anna Rapetti.

The course Medieval History is intended exclusively for students who take the 12 CFU exam and consists of two parts (FT0255-1 and FT0255-2) that cannot be separated from each other. The courses of Medieval History by 6 CFU are held by professor Alessandra Rizzi and professor Marco Pozza. In the current academic year there will be ONLY ONE 12-CFU course of Medieval History who take 12 CFU, that will take place in the first semester.
written and oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 06/06/2021