LATIN PALEOGRAPHY
Stampa
Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic year
2016/2017
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
M-STO/09 (PALAEOGRAPHY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
HUMANITIES
Curriculum
LETTERE MODERNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Language
ITALIAN
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
ANSANI MICHELE (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
An adequate knowledge of ancient and medieval history is required
Learning outcomes
The course intends to offer a base knowledg about the graphical historical processes characterizing Latin West, in connection with changing in forms, social functions, typologies of books and documents production between late ancient and middle ages; moreover, will be offered some methological starting points for the critical exame of manuscripts (transcription, description, dating etc).
Course contents
The course aims to analyze history, changes and consolidation of graphic systems from the ancient to the late medieval ages, with particular regard for the traditional topics (from capital to small letters; the origins of 'minuscola carolina'; the coming of 'littera textualis'), that stimulated debates and controversies among the scholars between 19th and 20th Centuries. The lectures will be supplemented by exercises (18 hours ) of reading, transcription, commentary of manuscripts.
Teaching methods
Lectures and exercises
Reccomended or required readings
A. Petrucci, Breve storia della scrittura latina, Roma 1989 or alternatively G. Cencetti, Lineamenti di storia della scrittura latina, Bologna 1997.
A. Petrucci, Prima lezione di paleografia, Bari 2002.

Not regular attenders have also to read:
A. Petrucci, Scrivere e leggere nell’Italia medievale, Milano 2007.
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Further information
Oral exam
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