OVERVIEW

For students attending the 9CFU examination, the course is divided in two parts of overall 60 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 four different books explained in some depth.. 

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

As part of the acquisition of basic knowledge related to the 5th-15th centuries, teaching aims to orient toward

- the development of a non-generic vocabulary

- the ability to traverse the medieval millennium with appropriate questioning

- the ability to recognize the main problematic nodes

- the ability to connect the acquired notions with coeval developments in different contexts-political, social and economic, but also literary, historical-artistic, historical-architectural-of human action.

At the end of the teaching the student will be able to explain with appropriate language the main processes, dynamics, facts or key figures (either by role or relevance), with awareness of their incidence in the above-mentioned contexts.

In the 6 cfu exam, the student must demonstrate that he/she has acquired the basic knowledge and skills indicated and can deal with one of the proposed in-depth examinations. For the 9 cfu exam, deeper and more detailed knowledge, critical awareness, and further study of a chosen topic are expected.

PREREQUISITES

No specific prerequisites are required.

TEACHING METHODS

Traditional in presence lesson, with the support of slides, in order to make easier the undestanding.

Classes are held in presence. Attendance, although not compulsory, is recommended. Students who attend at least half of the lectures in person are considered to be attending.

The lecturer, at the specific request of each student, allows distance learning of the lectures via the Teams platform.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Program for students both attending and not attending the course for 6 CFU

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

Program for students both attending and not attending the course for 9 CFU

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

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography fot students attending the course for 6 CFU:

One of the following two options:
1) A. Zorzi, Manuale di storia medievale, Utet 2016
2) L. Provero, M. Vallerani, Storia medievale, Le Monnier 2016

and one of the following four 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) L. Provero, Contadini e potere nel medioevo. Secoli IX-XV, Carocci 2020

4) T. Lazzari, Le donne nell'alto Medioevo, Milano-Torino 2010 (available on da https://unibo.academia.edu/TizianaLazzari and Aulaweb)

Those not attending will also refer to G. Sergi, L'idea di medioevo, Donzelli editore (any year).

Bibliography fot students attending the course for 9 CFU:

One of the following two options:
1) A. Zorzi, Manuale di storia medievale, Utet 2016
2) L. Provero, M. Vallerani, Storia medievale, Le Monnier 2016

And two of the following four 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) L. Provero, Contadini e potere nel medioevo. Secoli IX-XV, Carocci 2020

4) T. Lazzari, Le donne nell'alto Medioevo, Milano-Torino 2010 (available on da https://unibo.academia.edu/TizianaLazzari and Aulaweb)

Those not attending will also refer to G. Sergi, L'idea di medioevo, Donzelli editore (any year)..

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

PAOLA GUGLIELMOTTI (President)

MARIA ELENA CORTESE

DENISE BEZZINA (Substitute)

SANDRA MACCHIAVELLO (Substitute)

VALENTINA RUZZIN (Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Tuesday 27 September 2022

Class schedule

MEDIEVAL HISTORY

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written examination with regard to the history textbook, oral examination to check comprehension of the books of choice.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Knowledge of the syllabus for the medieval history textbook is tested in written form it’s required to answer to 4 different question and to orientate in a blank map of Europe and Mediterranean area; one hour); at the end of the course, it takes place an anonymous simulation of the written text, with public revision and with results that do not affect the final evaluation. Besides a consideration of the language skills, the valuation exteems the consciousness of historical processes and the comptence of featuring problematically centuries, characters, facts. The text about analysis and understanding an historiographical book, its structure and the use of sources by the author takes place through an interview (at lesson it will be provided a grid question, also on Aulaweb, that should help in the reading of a test).

Exam schedule