Unit MODERN HISTORY

Course

Humanities

Study-unit Code

GP005972

Curriculum

Classico

Teacher

Erminia Irace

Teachers

Erminia Irace

Hours

72 ore - Erminia Irace

CFU

Course Regulation

Coorte 2017

Offered

2019/20

Learning activities

Base

Area

Storia, filosofia, psicologia, pedagogia, antropologia e geografia

Academic discipline

M-STO/02

Type of study-unit

Opzionale (Optional)

Type of learning activities

Attività formativa monodisciplinare

Language of instruction

Italian

Contents

The course shall be composed of two parts.

Part 1) general history of Europe in Early modern age since the beginning of Geographical explorations (15th century) to the Congress of Vienna (1815).
Part 2) special section devoted to women and pratices of writing in Early Modern Europe.

Reference texts

PART 1) to be prepared by studying a textbook to be chosen from the following:
- C. Capra, Storia moderna (1492-1848), Milano, Mondadori (chapters 1-26),
- OR: A. Musi, Le vie della modernità, Firenze, Sansoni,
- OR: F. Benigno, L’età moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza.

PART 2)
a) for students of Beni culturali (first cycle degree, 9 CFU):
- M.L. King, La donna del Rinascimento, in L’uomo del Rinascimento, a cura di E. Garin, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 273-327 (pdf here: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php, in the page dedicated to this course);
- T. Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Roma, Carocci, 2019, Introduzione and chapters 1-2.

b) for the students of Lettere (first cycle degree, 12 CFU) and Filosofia ed etica delle relazioni (second cycle degree, 12 CFU):
- M.L. King, La donna del Rinascimento, in L’uomo del Rinascimento, a cura di E. Garin, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 273-327 (pdf here: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php, in the page dedicated to this course);
- T. Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Roma, Carocci, 2019, Introduzione and chapaters 1-4.

Program for non-attending students::
- M.L. King, La donna del Rinascimento, in L’uomo del Rinascimento, a cura di E. Garin, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 273-327 (pdf here: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php, in the page dedicated to this course);
- T. Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Roma, Carocci, 2019, the whole book.

Educational objectives

Analytical knowledge of the early modern history; development of historiographical language, also through the analysis of historical documents, about the phenomena economical, political and cultural concerning early modern history.

Prerequisites

It’s important to have information about the main events of the early modern European history (from late fifteenth century to early nineteenth century) and also to have logical-critical skills, in order to understand and argue the issues discussed in the lectures. The same prerequisites are also important for students who do not attend classes.

Teaching methods

Lessons in the classroom.

Other information

a) Useful informations are published at Unistudium:
https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php

Learning verification modality

Attending students will have the opportunity to take part 1) of the exam program through two written tests, which will take place, respectively, during the course and at the end of the part 1).
Each of the written tests consists of a questionnaire consisting of a series of closed and open questions that will concern the general history of Europe in the Early Modern Age. In particular, the first test will concern the historical period between the beginning of geographical discoveries (beginning of the fifteenth century) up to the Peace of Westphalia (1648); the second test will cover the historical period between the events of Great Britain in XVII century and the Congress of Vienna (1815).
Each of the written tests is assigned a maximum time of two hours; for each question a specific score is attributed, based on the correctness of the content, the syntactic and lexical properties, and finally the ability to synthesize and clarify the exposition.
Students who pass both written tests with sufficient marks (18/30) will be admitted to the oral exam, which will be held in one of the official exam sessions.
The oral exam lasts about 15 minutes and concerns the topics covered in part 2) of the exam program.
In the official exam sessions (which will start from January 2020), attending students who have not taken the written tests and non-attending students will be evaluated through an oral exam on the subject part 1) and part 2) of the program.

Extended program