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HISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN IN THE MIDDLE AGES (LM)

CODE 65333
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
CREDITS
  • 6 cfu during the 1st year of 9917 SCIENZE STORICHE (LM-84) - GENOVA
  • SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR M-STO/01
    LANGUAGE Italian
    TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
  • SEMESTER 2° Semester
    TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

    OVERVIEW

    The course aims to provide the tools for an understanding of the main political-institutional, economic-social and cultural phenomena that characterized the areas of medieval Europe facing the Mediterranean, in relation to the Byzantine and Islamic worlds

    AIMS AND CONTENT

    LEARNING OUTCOMES

    Students will have a grasp of the problems connected with the development of political, economic and cultural relations in the Mediterranean; they will study maritime societies in Middle Ages. Students will get acquainted with sources, research methods and updates in historiography related to specific topics.

    AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

    At the end of the course, students are expected to :

    • have acquired specific knowledge of the main events and long-term phenomena that characterised the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, in order to understand the link between great civilisations
    • be familiar with the methodological tools of the discipline, the basic outlines of specific historiography and the sources proposed during the lessons
    • write a report on a historiographical essay assigned for reading.

     

    PREREQUISITES

    None

    TEACHING METHODS

    40 hours of lectures on the main topics of the history of the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages and seminars on specific themes, also with the use of teaching materials (mainly sources, mostly translated into Italian) provided by the lecturer.

    Lectures will be held in-person.

    For students unable to attend in-person, it will be possible to attend online on Teams ONLY by requesting the lecturer to be enrolled on the team (send an email to mariaelena.cortese@unige.it, writing in the subject line: DIDATTICA A DISTANZA). 

    Students following online will be considered NON attending (see the spcific bibliography for non attending students).

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    Outlines of Mediterranean History in the Middle Ages; orientation to research and reading of sources

     

    RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

    BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS:

    1) All the following texts:

    • M. Gallina, Bisanzio. Storia di un impero (secoli IV-XIII), Roma, Carocci editore, 2016
    • M. Tangheroni, Il Mediterraneo bassomedievale, in Storia Medievale, Donzelli, 1998, pp. 463-492
    • S. Collavini, L’espansione dell’Occidente nel Mediterraneo, in Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, dir. A. Barbero, IV. Il. Medioevo (secoli V-XV), a c. S. Carocci, 2006, pp. 449

    2) one option (on the student's choice) between the following:

    • the four following brief essays : S. Gasparri, MERCANTI E SOLDATI, COMACCHIO, CREMONA E IL COMMERCIO SUL PO, cap. 5 del volume  di S. Gasparri, Voci dai secoli oscuri, Roma, 2017; A. Molinari, Riflessioni sulle economie dei secoli X e XI, in Italy and Early Medieval Europe, a cura di R. Balzaretti, J. Barrow, P. Skinner, Oxford, 2018, pp. 155-170; G. Petralia, Le navi e i cavalli: per una rilettura del Mediterraneo pienomedievale, in «Quaderni storici», 103, 2000, pp. 201-222; Ch. Wickham, Prima della crescita: quale società?, in La crescita economica dell’Occidente medievale. Un tema storico non ancora esaurito, a cura di F. Franceschi, Pistoia 2017, pp. 93-109

    •  L. Capezzone, Medioevo arabo. Una storia dell’Islam medievale (VII-XV secolo), Milano, Mondadori Università, 2016 (only pp. 1-64, 92-145, 196-208

    •  A. Cortonesi, L. Palermo, La prima espansione economica europea. Secoli XI-XV, Carocci, 2019 (only 6 chapters on the student's choice)
    •  P. Guglielmotti, Genova, Spoleto, CISAM, 2013

     

    BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR NON ATTENDING STUDENTS: 

    1) All the following texts:

    • M. Gallina, Bisanzio. Storia di un impero (secoli IV-XIII), Roma, Carocci editore, 2016
    • M. Tangheroni, Il Mediterraneo bassomedievale, in Storia Medievale, Donzelli, 1998, pp. 463-492
    • S. Collavini, L’espansione dell’Occidente nel Mediterraneo, in Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, dir. A. Barbero, IV. Il. Medioevo (secoli V-XV), a c. S. Carocci, 2006, pp. 449

    2) TWO options (on the student's choice) between the following:

    • the four following brief essays : S. Gasparri, MERCANTI E SOLDATI, COMACCHIO, CREMONA E IL COMMERCIO SUL PO, cap. 5 del volume  di S. Gasparri, Voci dai secoli oscuri, Roma, 2017; A. Molinari, Riflessioni sulle economie dei secoli X e XI, in Italy and Early Medieval Europe, a cura di R. Balzaretti, J. Barrow, P. Skinner, Oxford, 2018, pp. 155-170; G. Petralia, Le navi e i cavalli: per una rilettura del Mediterraneo pienomedievale, in «Quaderni storici», 103, 2000, pp. 201-222; Ch. Wickham, Prima della crescita: quale società?, in La crescita economica dell’Occidente medievale. Un tema storico non ancora esaurito, a cura di F. Franceschi, Pistoia 2017, pp. 93-109

    •  L. Capezzone, Medioevo arabo. Una storia dell’Islam medievale (VII-XV secolo), Milano, Mondadori Università, 2016 (only pp. 1-64, 92-145, 196-208

    •  A. Cortonesi, L. Palermo, La prima espansione economica europea. Secoli XI-XV, Carocci, 2019 (only 6 chapters on the student's choice)
    • P. Guglielmotti, Genova, Spoleto, CISAM, 2013

     

     

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    MARIA ELENA CORTESE (President)

    PAOLA GUGLIELMOTTI

    SANDRA MACCHIAVELLO (Substitute)

    LESSONS

    LESSONS START

    7th of March 2023

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

     Oral exam.

    Register on line for your final exam. 

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    The final examination will consist of an oral interview, which will cover the topics covered in class, including the topics addressed in seminars and exercises, and the textbooks indicated in the Bibliography.

    In order to pass the exam, the student will have to demonstrate that he/she understands the main topics covered in the course, that he/she can identify the main socio-economic, cultural and institutional processes of the Middle Ages, and that he/she can critically use, with reference to them, the sources available on the website and the bibliographical material indicated by the lecturer. Assessment will also take into account autonomy of judgment and the ability to express oneself using the specialized vocabulary related to the discipline

    Exam schedule

    Date Time Location Type Notes
    14/12/2022 15:00 GENOVA Orale
    18/01/2023 08:30 GENOVA Orale
    08/02/2023 08:30 GENOVA Orale
    10/05/2023 09:00 GENOVA Orale IMPORTANTE: appello riservato ai laureandi
    24/05/2023 08:30 GENOVA Scritto
    24/05/2023 08:30 GENOVA Orale
    07/06/2023 08:30 GENOVA Orale
    04/07/2023 15:00 GENOVA Orale
    12/09/2023 15:00 GENOVA Orale

    FURTHER INFORMATION

    Non-attending students will have to contact the teacher.