Course contents
The course will discuss migrations and exiles in the time of the so-called "Babylonian Captivity" of the papacy at Avignon, by focusing on a clergyman and writer from Pavia, Opicinus de Canistris (1296-c. 1352), and his works.
Reccomended or required readings
Reading for students who will attend the class:
1. Notes from the lectures
2. Karl WHITTINGTON, Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination (Studies and Texts, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 186, Text-Image-Context 1, 2014)
3. written essay about a research argument
Reading for students who will not attend the class:
1. Anonymi Ticinensis liber de laudibus civitatis ticinensis, a cura di Rodolfo MAJOCCHI/Ferruccio QUINTAVALLE (RIS 2, 11/1, 1903). (Transl: Opicino de Canistris, Le lodi della città di Pavia. Traduzione annotata con testo latino a fronte, a cura di Delfino Ambaglio, Pavia 2004).
2. Hans Jürgen BECKER, Canistris, Opicino de, in: Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, 18, Roma 1975, pp. 116-119.
3. Tozzi, Pierluigi, La città e il mondo in Opicino De Canistris, 1296-1350 ca.,Varzi 1996
4. Karl WHITTINGTON, Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination (Studies and Texts, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 186, Text-Image-Context 1, 2014)
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