Unit MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE

Course
Humanities
Study-unit Code
35336712
Curriculum
Moderno
Teacher
Patrizia Stoppacci
Teachers
  • Patrizia Stoppacci
Hours
  • 72 ore - Patrizia Stoppacci
CFU
12
Course Regulation
Coorte 2019
Offered
2021/22
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Filologia, linguistica e letteratura
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/08
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Module I:
- History of Medieval Latin literature from 6th to 13th Century.

Module B:
- “Homo viator”. History of Pilgrimages between the early and late Middle Ages (Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago de Compostela).
Reference texts
Module I.
- Letteratura latina medievale (secoli VI-XV). Un manuale, a cura di Claudio Leonardi, Firenze, SISMEL, 2002.

Module B:
- Enrico Menestò, Relazioni di viaggi e di ambasciatori, in Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo. I: Il Medioevo latino. I/2: La produzione del testo, cur. G. Cavallo et alii, Roma-Salerno 1993, pp. 535-600.
- Attilio Brilli, Gerusalemme, La Mecca, Roma. Storie di pellegrinaggi e pellegrini, Bologna, Il Mulino 2014.
- Paolo Caucci Von Saucken. Guida del pellegrino di Santiago, Milano, Jaca Book, 2020.
Educational objectives
An adequate knowledge of the Medieval Latin literature in its development (6th-13th).
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Latin language and Medieval history. Useful: knowledge of Medieval history and Latin paleography.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons on the subjects examines by the program. Some seminars will be held at the end of the course to discuss the most significant historiographic issues concerning the Medieval travel literature.
Other information
Non-attending students will have to consult the teacher at the beginning of the course and before starting the study of the program (see the reception hours in the web-page http://www.unipg.it/pagina-personale?n=patrizia.stoppacci).
Learning verification modality
Oral examination in annual sessions to verify the program on the topics of the two modules. The purpose of the test is to verify the knowledge gained during the course, evaluate the critical skills and the ability to expose the main topics discussed.
Extended program
The course aims to provide students with an overview of the history of the Latin Literature produced during the Centuries of the Middle Ages (from the 6th to the 15th Centuries), a review of the main literary genres caught in their critical-historical evolution and a selection of the most representative authors (such as Boethius, Cassiodorus, Isidorus Hispalensis, Beda, Paulus Diaconus, Alcuinus, Einhardus, Dhuoda, Walafrridus Strabo, Hrotsvit, Gerbertus Aureliacensis, Waltharius, Abaelardus, Heloissa, Hildegardis Bngensis, Carmina Burana, Iohannes de Plano Carpinis, Salimbene de Adam).
In addition, an introduction to philology and its problems will be offered, in particular those related to the textual criticism and its application in the field of the edition of medieval latin texts.
Module II will be dedicated to pilgrimages in the late and early Middle Ages, examined through the reading of works that have marked the history of Western spirituality and culture. Particular attention will be paid to the “peregrinationes maiores” (Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago de Compostela) and to the “peregrinationes minores” (Montecassino, Fleury, the Well of St. Patrick in Ireland and the places of the Michaelic cult).
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