| CODE | 98453 |
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| ACADEMIC YEAR | 2022/2023 |
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| SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR | M-STO/01 |
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| SEMESTER | 2° Semester |
| TEACHING MATERIALS | AULAWEB |
The course will address the main topics related to gender history and discussed by scholarly literature, (especially the more recent studies). In particular, the lessons will focus on the role of women and the relationships within families and society along the medieval centuries with special attention the the period spanning the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.
The course aims at providing students with historiogaphical and theoretical tools for the analysis and construction of gender in the Middle Ages (fifth to fifteenth centuries) and to additionally illustrate the general framework of reseach on the role of women in distinct local and territorial contexts in specific time periods.
The course aims at instructing students on how to read sources and scholarly literature which deal with aspects of gender and to provide the theoretical tools for the analysis and construction of gender in the Middle Ages (fifth-fifteenth centuries), by providing an introductory picture of scholarship on women in distinct local and territorial contexts and in specific time periods. At the end of the course the students will be able to read sources as well as scholarly literature critically, and contextualize the gender pespective when applied to history.
No pre-requisites are required.
Frontal classes. Slides will be shown during lectures; part of the material will be provided in class, part will be available on Aulaweb. Scheduled presentations by the students; optional exercises corrected in the classroom, which may be taken into account in the examination assessment.
Students who request this at the beginning of the course will be able to follow the lectures via Teams (which will not be recorded). These students will in any case be considered non-attending.
An overview of gender history relative to the Middle Ages, interpretative categories, historiographical updates.
Program 6 CFU
Compulsory texts:
D. Lett, Uomini e donne nel Medioevo, il Mulino 2013.
6 chapters of free choice from only one of the following books:
1) Violenza alle donne. Una prospettiva medievale, a cura di A. Esposito, F. Franceschi, G. Piccinni, il Mulino 2018 (seven chapters to choose from).
2) Donne, famiglie e patrimoni a Genova e in Liguria nei secoli XII e XIII, a cura di P. Guglielmotti, Genova, Società ligure di storia patria, 2020, available on https://www.storiapatriagenova.it/BD_vs_contenitore.aspx?Id_Scheda_Bibliografica_Padre=6234&Id_Progetto=0 (five chapters to choose from)
A list of reading suggestions and links useful for furthering the knowledge on the topic will be available on Aulaweb.
Office hours: During the course before and after lesson and by appointment; during the rest of the year (except other lessons or meetings are expected) Wednesday morning, 10 to 13, always by appointment.
PAOLA GUGLIELMOTTI (President)
MARIA ELENA CORTESE
DENISE BEZZINA (Substitute)
SANDRA MACCHIAVELLO (Substitute)
VALENTINA RUZZIN (Substitute)
February 20th, 2023
Oral exam.
The oral exam will test the student's knowledge of the main gender dynamics both along the Middle Ages, and in more circumscribed contexts, as well as of the historiographical and methodological approaches illustrated during the course and in the texts. The use of an appropriate terminology will also be assessed. Presentations delivered by the students during class or as a written assignment, as outlined by the lecturers, will be considered during the evaluation; the results of optional exercises will be taken into account.
| Date | Time | Location | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14/12/2022 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 18/01/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 08/02/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 10/05/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | appello riservato ai laureandi della sessione estiva |
| 24/05/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 07/06/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 21/06/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 05/07/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 13/09/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Orale |