Unit HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE
- Course
- Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
- Study-unit Code
- 10999209
- Curriculum
- Lingue e studi sulla traduzione
- Teacher
- Mario Tosti
- Teachers
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- Mario Tosti
- Hours
- 36 ore - Mario Tosti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline linguistico-letterarie, artistiche, storiche, demoetnoantropologiche e filosofiche
- 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 aims to reconstruct the development lines of Europe between 1648 and 1815. To do this it follows some directives that range from the political to the cultural sphere; from the socio-economic one to the demographic one, touching on many collateral themes ranging from communications, hunting, from women, sex, gender to gardens. But all the topics addressed are aimed at demonstrating some specific lines of development which concern: - Politics: consolidation of the state; affirmation of the "monopoly of legitimate force" - Secularization: that is, expulsion of the sacred from unsuitable places (education, health, justice) - Nationalism: the new secular religion - Social change: all States had to deal with the emergence of a new type of cultural space: the public sphere or: - Birth of public opinion favored by higher literacy rates (newspapers and magazines are read) urbanization (theaters and cafes) tolerance and consequent circulation of ideas and news
- Reference texts
- TIM BLANNING, L'età della gloria. Storia d'Europa dal 1648 al 1815, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2018.
- Educational objectives
- To offer, through the course, a pedagogical tool to understand the affirmation of the process of building and consolidating the European identity.
The first was the society of orders, land wealth and authoritarian rule; the next, the world of classes, capitalism, democracy and revolutions. The course aims to narrate those years dominated by the European elite's search for progress and glory, personal or national. - Prerequisites
- Knowing how to place facts and events in space and time
- Reorganize data and concepts
- Knowing how to read, obtain information and compare historical documents
-Know the main conceptual and terminological tools of the discipline
- Understand changes and permanences of historical processes
- Knowing how to evaluate the difference between historical consciousness and the cultural stereotype of an event or period
-To get to know the European history from the Enlightenment to the end of the nineteenth century quite thoroughly. - Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons with PPT projection and use of historical maps
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination
- Extended program
- Age of Glory or Age of Reason or Age of Enlightenment
Triumph of rationalism and secularization. The traditional theocentric vision of the universe is demolished by the texts of authors such as: Newton, Locke, Hume, Montesquieu, Diderot and D’Alembert.
But the same period can also be called "Age of Faith"
Rebirth of heterodox religious movements: Jansenism, pietism and methodism
Religious literature continued to be very popular
So the volume does not draw a progressive and progressive history of Europe: from Faith to Reason
Rather a dialectical encounter between a culture of feeling and a culture of reason