MODERN HISTORY - A
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Enrollment year
2014/2015
Academic year
2014/2015
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
M-STO/02 (MODERN HISTORY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
PHILOSOPHY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
(23/02/2015 - 30/05/2015)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
ITALIAN
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
FERRARESI ALESSANDRA (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
A basic general knowledge
Learning outcomes
The course will concern the basic contents and competences, related to anthropological, social, economic, religious, cultural side, to know the peculiarities of early modern West and their trend to contemporaneity. It focuses the topic of periodization and, analysing the main types of sources for early modern history, provides the basis to start students to historical research.
Course contents
Problems and connections of early modern history in Europe: from the crisis of Italian peninsula and from geographic discoveries and expansion of West to French revolution, focusing the origins of the modern State, Protestant Reformation, relations between State and Church, social and economic European structures during Ancien Régime, the opposite poles rebellion/revolution.
Some topics will be discussed from the perspective of world history
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Reading list

A) Attending students (two thirds of lessons ) lead to examination :

A) P. Prodi, Introduzione allo studio della storia moderna, Bologna, il Mulino 1999 or
R. Bizzocchi, Guida allo studio della storia moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2012

B) C. Capra, Storia moderna, Firenze, Le Monnier Università 2011
or
R. Ago -V. Vidotto, Storia moderna, Bari, Laterza 2008
Aids for the study are historical atlas (f.i. G. Duby, Atlante storico. La storia del mondo in 317 carte, Torino, Sei, 2000; Atlante storico, Milano Garzanti, 2003 (Le Garzantine) and other guide-books, such as M.T. Silvestrini, Le date della storia moderna , Roma, Carocci, 2001.
Is possible for students proceeding towards the second - level degree plan with the course lecturer the study of another textbook (point B), f.i.::
G. Ricuperati, F. Ieva, Manuale di storia moderna, Torino, Utet, 2012.
A. Prosperi, P. Viola, Storia moderna e contemporanea, 2 voll., Torino , Einaudi 2000.

Moreover, non attending students will study one of following monographies:

J. R. Hale, L’Europa nell’età del Rinascimento, 1480-1520, Bologna, il Mulino 2003.
E. Hinrichs, Alle origini dell’età moderna, Bari, Laterza 2001; W. Reinhard, Storia dello stato moderno, Bologna, il Mulino 2010.
A. Padgen, Signori del mondo. Ideologie dell’impero in Spagna, Gran Bretagna e Francia. 1500-1800, Bologna, il Mulino 2005.
J.A. Goldstone, Perchè l'Europa? L'ascesa dell'Occidente nella storia mondiale 1500-1850, Bologna, il Mulino 2010.
M. Firpo, Riforma protestante ed eresia nell’Italia del Cinquecento: un profilo storico, Roma, Laterza 2006.
O. Niccoli, La vita religiosa nell’Italia moderna. Secoli XV- XVIII, Roma, Carocci 2008.
P. Del Negro, Guerra ed eserciti da Machiavelli a Napoleone, Bari, Laterza 2007; G. Schmidt, La guerra dei Trent'anni, Bologna, il Mulino 2003.
M. Livi Bacci, Conquista, La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, il Mulino 2005.

#G. Ricci, I turchi alle porte, Bologna, il Mulino 2008; M. Formica, Lo specchio turco. Immagini dell'altro e cultura del sé nella cultura italiana d'età moderna, Roma, Donzelli 2012.

L. Hunt, La rivoluzione francese. Politica, cultura, classi sociali, Bologna, il Mulino 1989 (ristampa 2007).
Assessment methods
written esamination
Further information
written esamination
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