Unit MODERN HISTORY
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- GP004920
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Filippo Maria Troiani
- Teachers
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- Filippo Maria Troiani
- Hours
- 54 ore - Filippo Maria Troiani
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline storiche, geografiche e socio-antropologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian language
- Contents
- In the first part of the course the evolution of the European civilization will be faced by the end of Four hundred to the Napoleonic empire, weaving I space him/it political with the social, economic and cultural stories. The theme will be deepened then regarding the change of the European political scenery and the inside equilibriums to the old continent in the first halves the XVIII century, through the direct testimony of Carlo Mansi, ambassador of the Republic of Lucca to the court in Vienna in an epoch of depth change of the European foreign politics.
- Reference texts
- The recommended texts are: for the general history; G. Ricuperati, F. Ieva, Manuale di Storia Moderna, UTET, Torino, Capitoli 1/3/4/5/6/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/16/17/19/20/21/22/23/24/25 (DA STUDIARE PER INTERO), Capitoli 2/7/15/18/ (DA LEGGERE).
For the second form: R. Sabbatini; L’occhio dell’ambasciatore: l’Europa delle guerre di successione nell’autobiografia dell’inviato lucchese a Vienna, Franco Angeli, Milano. 2006. - Educational objectives
- To know the changes and the breakups that have marked deeply the history of Europe in the modern age, underlining the changes more than the continuities and the uniformities, to analyze the multiplicity of the political models, cultural, religious and of the working forms of the organization of the society in the European history. To reconstruct the trials that have brought to the today's condition, individualizing in the European expansion, in to rise of a world economy, in the connection of the contents through the emigrations of mass, in the planetary widening of the international relationships, in the formation of a cosmopolitan culture, the roots of the contemporaneity.
- Prerequisites
- With the purpose to understand and to face the course the student must possess the general notions concerning the chronological arc taken in examination by the course (1492 -1820), to know how to connect facts and events in the time, to reorganize data and concepts to know the principals conceptual and terminological tools of the discipline.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons with projections of slide and breves filmed that they reassume the treated contained principals.
- Other information
- During the carrying out of the course you/they will have made of the students on the base UNISTUDIUM the materials used in the frontal lessons available. For urgent communications and appointments to write mail to the address filippo.troiani@unipg.it
- Learning verification modality
- The evaluation consists of n. 2 tests: one written test and one final oral examination. Written test, reserved for students who have certified attendance at least two thirds of the language class (36 hours)It consists of multiple-choice questions which aim to encourage students to gradually consolidate their specific knowledge, verify their skills in applying acquired procedures and concepts and logical skills. The test will take place at the end of the lessons dedicated to the general part. The test duration is 40 minutes. The exemption consists of a written examination with 30 multiple choice questions. Applications are evaluated in 30/30. Each single question is worth 1 point. Each incorrect or no given answer shall be equal to 0. The test shall be deemed to have been passed with a vote of 18/30 or more. In the event of a positive result, the vote on the exemption may not be refused. The student who passes the written test, obtaining a vote equal to or greater than 18, reports to the oral examination only on the texts adopted for the second form. Students who fail the written test also report on the general part.
The final oral examination consists of an interview of 30 minutes max which wants to ascertain the mastery of the language, the ability to use the foreground and to link it into the argumentation and to discuss and deepen the different topics covered in the second module. The final vote will be based on the weighted average of the two tests supported. All those who do not participate in the written test will report to the oral on the entire program of the course. - Extended program
- The course is separated in two parts. In the first (48 hours) one you/they will be faced the changes and the breakups that have marked deeply the history of Europe in the modern age, underlining the changes, the plurality of the political models, cultural, religious and of the forms of the organization of the society. Such objective will be reached through the knowledges and the study of the followings matters:
The breakup of the geographical barriers - the explorations and the discovery of America - the birth of the colonial empires Italy and Europe in Five hundred - the shine of the Italian Renaissance - the wars of Italy - the Protestant Reform - the Controriforma and the Council of Trento - new wars for the predominance on Europe Six hundred - Six hundred Europe - the absolute monarchy in France - the parliamentary monarchy in England - Italy in Six hundred - the scientific revolution The first Seven hundred - the new culture of the Enlightenment - Europe and Italy of the Seven hundred one The age of the Revolutions - the first industrial Revolution - the American Revolution and the birth of the United States of America - the French Revolution - The Napoleonic age.
In the second(6 hours) form the mechanisms will be deepened that have brought to a depth change of the European political scenery and the inside equilibriums to the old continent in the first halves the XVIII century, through the direct testimony of Charles Mansi, ambassador of the Republic of Lucca to the court in Vienna.