Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic discipline
M-STO/01 (MEDIAEVAL HISTORY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
(25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
For being admitted to the (oral) exam of "modulo B" students must have successfully passed the (written) exam of "modulo A".
Learning outcomes
- to deepen the knowledge of the Middle Ages by studying a concrete topic of medieval political and social history
- to test the critique and historical interpretation of written and figurative sources
- to get insights in the most important bibliography on the topic, to read critically the results of modern research
Course contents
The lecture proposes an interpretation of urban trend in late medieval Italy and Europe by a comparative approach to political communication’s forms, to secular and religious rituals, to collective ethical-political imagination.
Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Powerpoint presentation of source material and images (to be downloaded from KIRO)
Reccomended or required readings
Students attending classes:
1. Notes on the lessons
2. Lorenzo Tanzini, A consiglio: la vita politica nell'Italia dei comuni, Bari, Laterza, 2014Students not attending classes:
1. Lorenzo Tanzini, A consiglio: la vita politica nell'Italia dei comuni, Bari, Laterza, 2014
2. Giuliano Milani, I comuni italiani: secoli XII-XIV, Roma Laterza 2005 (ed edizioni successive)
3) Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur, Enrico Faini, Il sistema politico dei comuni italiani, secoli XII-XIV, Milano, Mondadori, 2010
Assessment methods
Oral Exam about the content of the course
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