2015/2016

2016/2017

DM270

M-STO/09 (PALAEOGRAPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

LETTERE MODERNE

2°

1st semester (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)

6

48 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

ANSANI MICHELE (titolare) - 6 ECTS

An adequate knowledge of ancient and medieval history is required

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).

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.

Lectures and exercises

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.

Oral exam

Oral exam