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