AGE OF REFORM AND COUNTER REFORMATION

The teaching belongs to the characterizing activities of the master's degree program in History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age, which prepare students to specialize in European and non-European history through a full mastery of the epistemological foundations of historiographical practice and the methodologies of investigation of different types of sources, including original ones.

Attendance and active participation in the course's offered learning activities and individual study will enable students to: 1) acquire knowledge of the analytical categories and main areas of investigation of the history of the Protestant Reformation from a social history and historical anthropology perspective; 2) explore topics such as: daily life; marriage, family, gender roles; emotions and feelings; forms of communication; materiality and devotions 3) address these issues through direct analysis of historical sources and class discussion of scholarly essays; 4) present orally and discuss a case study; 5) prepare a written text in the form of an essay, critically comparing bibliography and analyzing a source.

Knowledge of European history of the age of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation (textbook level)

Towards a social history of the Protestant Reformation
In Protestant Reformation studies since the 1980s, social history and historical anthropology have produced innovative research on the relationships between religious change and such areas as: everyday life; gender relations and family life; emotions and feelings; forms of communication (oral, written, visual); forms of devotion; and objects and materiality. The course aims to explore these aspects in depth on the basis of the most recent bibliography and through the analysis of different types of sources.

R. Po Chia Hsia, The German People and the Reformation, Cornell 1988
Susan Karant-Nunn, The Reformation of Feeling. Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany
Ulinka Rublack, Reformation Europe, Cambridge U.P. 2005 (2nd ed. 2017)
Robert W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation, Cambridge U.P., 1981 (trad.it.: Per il popolo dei semplici. Propaganda popolare nella Riforma tedesca, Milano, UNICOPLI, 2008)
Id.,Oral Culture and the Diffusion of Reformation Ideas in R. W. Scribner, Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany, London, Bloomsbury, 1987.

Participation in class activities (40%); Written paper on a case study and final oral interview (60%).

Introductory lectures. Seminar classes on discussion of scholarly essays and analysis of sources. Presentations by/students.

Italian

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development