Unit FRANCISCAN STUDIES AND MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP004900
- Curriculum
- Moderno
- Teacher
- Stefano Brufani
- Teachers
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- Stefano Brufani
- Hours
- 72 ore - Stefano Brufani
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Institutes of the history of latin Christianity in the West (cent. XI-XV). Introduction to the history and Franciscan literature of the thirteenth Century.
- Reference texts
- I modulo: Storia del cristianesimo, ed. E. Prinzivalli, II: L'età medievale (secoli VIII-XV), ed. M. Benedetti, Roma, Carocci editore, 2015 (Frecce, 193) (essays: G.G. Merlo, M. C. Rossi, G. Ligato e M. Benedetti); C. Leonardi, Agiografia, in Id., Agiografie medievali, Firenze, Ed. Galluzzo, 2011, pp. 421-462; Documents for the history of medieval Christianity available on the website of the Department of Arts (Lettere) / Education / Teaching online service e-studium.
II modulo: Francesco d'Assisi e il primo secolo di storia francescana, Torino, Einaudi, 1997 (essays: G. G. Merlo, G. Miccoli, E. Prinzivalli, E. Menestò, L. Pellegrini); Fonti francescane. Ed. Pocket, Padova, Edizioni francescane, 2012 (o ed. maior, Padova, 2011); R. Rusconi, Francesco d'Assisi, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, XLIX (1997), pp. 664-667; S. Brufani, Le leggende francescane: rilettura di un problema di metodo, in Francesco d'Assisi fra storia, letteratura e iconografia. Atti del seminario (Rende, 8/9 maggio 1995), Rubbettino, 1996, pp. 11-36; S. Brufani, I santi mendicanti, in Forme e modelli della santità dal tardoantico al Medioevo, cur. M. Bassetti -- A. Degl'Innocenti -- E. Menestò, Spoleto, Fondazione CISAM, 2012 (Uomini e mondi medievali, 31), pp. 57-96.
Teaching material is available at the Department of Artes (Lettere) / Education / Teaching online. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of the essential lines of the History of Christianity (XI-XV Cent.) and the Franciscan history and literature (XIII-XIV Cent.). Ability of critical reading of the sources presented in the lessons.
- Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge (high school) in medieval history. Useful: frequency of Medieval History.
- Teaching methods
- Lessons on the topics covered by the program.
At the end of the course there will be a day of study at the archive and library of the Sacred Convent of Assisi and a guided tour of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. - Other information
- For the second module, students do not attend replace reading anthology of Franciscan sources with the study of the Writings of Francis of Assisi mentioned in the essays of G. G. Merlo and G. Miccoli and with the reading of the life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano; for the introduction to this legend, see. the essay by E. Prinzivalli. Non-attending students must consult the teacher at the beginning of the course and before starting the study program (see Office hours in teacher's board in the University website with the function Search people).
- Learning verification modality
- I Module: exemption written at the end of the lessons of the first module for the Assessment of the program carried out. II module: oral exam sessions appeal to the verification program on the topics of the second module. The tests are designed to test the knowledge / basics presented in the course of verifying the critical skills and methods of presentation of the main issues addressed and their sources.
- Extended program
- Module I: Introduction to the History of latin Christianity in the West (XI-XV). The Apostolic See and ecclesiastical institutions of Latin Christianity. Religious orders beggars. The Crusades and Islam. Heresies and Inquisition. II module: Franciscan historiography and the "Franciscan question". Francis of Assisi and the Order of Friars Minor: from 'fraternitas' to institution of religious Order. Introduction to the Writings of Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan hagiography of the thirteenth and fourteenth Centuries.