2017/2018

2017/2018

DM270

M-STO/02 (MODERN HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HISTORY OF EUROPE

Moderno e contemporaneo

1°

(25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

RODA MARICA - 6 ECTS

Knowledge of political relations in the Mediterranean in the XVI - XVIII centuries

Obiettivi

The course aims to introduce students to the knowledge and use of technical / conceptual tools of historiography. We will both a) explore some fundamental components of historical thinking such as methods of historical analysis, ideas about context, truth and objectivity, legitimacy, differences between scholarly and fiction narratives, etc. through reading and discussion of M.Bloch, The Historian's Craft and b) get to consider the potential of iconographic sources for early modern history and the methodological problems associated with their use.

Risultati di apprendimento

At the end the student will have elements to reflect independently on the characteristics of the historical profession and to appreciate the use of iconographic documentation for historical research

Using both written and iconographic material we will examine a case study: Imagery of the Turk in Early modern Europe

Students will find the scheduled lectures, suggestions, required readings and optional assignments on Kiro (http://elearning4.unipv.it/umanistici/) . They must register on Kiro before the beginning of the lessons

During the lectures we will 1. Analyze, evaluate, describe the documents; 2. Compare the different views and stereotypes they convey 3. Identify an historical thesis embedded in books or essays 4. Build a collective text with search results; 5. Create a wiki page where to publish the class study results


Teaching is based on seminars and requires personal work and regular attendance: class work involves lectures, teamwork, discussion of the texts in the bibliography and of other materials provided by the teacher.

Attending students:

1) M.Bloch, The Historian's Craft

2) P. Burke, Eyewitnessing The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence, Picturing History 2001

3) An essay or book/part of book marked with an asterisk chosen by the student in the file BIBLIOGRAFIA 2017-2018 published on Kiro

Not attending students:
Please contact the teacher

Oral exam (50%). A portion of the mark depends on the active participation in class work and will include the preparation of written texts (25%) and their collective discussion (25%).

Students will be allowed two miss up two absences during the course