OVERVIEW

For students attending the 9CFU examination, the course is divided in two parts of overall 54 hours. The first part is dedicated to an explanation of the medieval millennium, also with reference to two of the newest and qualified handbooks; the second part aims to connect the student with the craft of the historian and his work through the sources, with reference to three different books. At the end of the first part is driven an anomimous simulation of the written test, with a public revision.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to build a conceptual apparatus commensurate to understand the originale past times of the European civilisation under the perspective of the up to date trend of historiography, to give a critical reconstruction of the main problems of Middle Ages (5th-15th centuries) and a basic chronological framework, to approach the understandig of historiographical models.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Within the acquisition of basic skills in medieval history, the teaching aims to let develope a not generic language, an ability to go across the medieval millennium thanks to correct questioning and an ability to connect the obtained skills to the contemporary developments in different contexts of the human action: political, social and economic but also literary, artistic and architectural ones.

TEACHING METHODS

Traditional lesson, also with the support of a Powerpoint; simulation of the written test.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Program for students attending the course for 6 CFU

Outlines of medieval history, interpretative categories, historiographic updates.

Program for students attending the course for 9 CFU

Outlines of medieval history, interpretative categories, historiographic updates. Orientation in reading a history book, historiographic deepenings.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography fot students attending the course for 6 CFU:

One of the following two options:
1) Introduzione alla storia medievale, ed. byi G. Albertoni e T. Lazzari, Il Mulino 2015
2) L. Provero, M. Vallerani, Storia medievale, Le Monnier 2016

and compulsory:

Storia medievale, Donzelli 1998, chapt. 5 (La Rocca, Cristianesimi), 7 (Guglielmotti, I franchi e l’Europa carolingia), 10 (Carocci, Signori, castelli, feudi), 14 (Artifoni, Città e comuni), including references to the final glossary.

Bibliography fot students attending the course for 9 CFU:

One of the following two options:
1) Introduzione alla storia medievale, a cura di G. Albertoni e T. Lazzari, Il Mulino 2015
2) L. Provero, M. Vallerani, Storia medievale, Le Monnier 2016

and compulsory:

Storia medievale, Donzelli 1998, chapt. 5 (La Rocca, Cristianesimi), 7 (Guglielmotti, I franchi e l’Europa carolingia), 10 (Carocci, Signori, castelli, feudi), 14 (Artifoni, Città e comuni), including references to the final glossary.

And one of the following three options:

1) D. Bezzina, Artigiani a Genova, secoli XII-XIII, Firenze University Press 2015 e www.ebook.retimedievali.it (also available on Aulaweb)

2) S. Gasparri, Voci dei secoli oscuri. Un percorso nelle fonti dell'alto medioevo, Roma 2017

3) a) A. Frugoni, Arnaldo da Brescia nelle fonti del secolo XII, Roma 1954 e Torino 1989
b) G. Sergi, Arsenio Frugoni e la storiografia del restauro, in A. Frugoni, Arnaldo da Brescia nelle fonti del secolo XII, Torino 1989, pp. VII-XXIV. (both available on Aulaweb)

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

PAOLA GUGLIELMOTTI (President)

SANDRA MACCHIAVELLO

SANDRA ORIGONE

ANTONELLA ROVERE

LESSONS

Class schedule

MEDIEVAL HISTORY

EXAMS

Exam schedule