Unit MODERN HISTORY
- Course
- Philosophy and psychological science and techniques
- Study-unit Code
- 40007212
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Filippo Maria Troiani
- Teachers
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- Filippo Maria Troiani
- Chiara Coletti
- Hours
- 36 ore - Filippo Maria Troiani
- 6 ore - Chiara Coletti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline letterarie, linguistiche e storiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian language
- Contents
- The course will face the evolution of the European civilization from the end of Four hundred to the Napoleonic age, 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 Charles 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; A. MUSI, Le vie della modernità, Sansoni, Milano 2000, chapters 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/9/10/11 / (to study in full) 12 (only reading), 13 (only paragraphs 1 and 2), /14/15/17/18/19/20/21 (to study in full).
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.
Lesson seminariale near Libraries or you File local. - Other information
- During the carrying out of the course you/they will have put to disposizine of the students on the base UNISTUDIUM the materials used in the frontal lessons.
- Learning verification modality
- During the carrying out of the course you/they will have put to disposizine of the students on the base UNISTUDIUM the materials used in the frontal lessons.
The evaluation is composed from n. 2 tests: a written test and a final oral examination. The written test, reserved to the students that have certified the frequency to at least two bystanders of the mountain times of lesson (24 hours), consist in questions to multiple answer on the principals matters of history general essays to lesson. The test will develop him at the end of the lessons devoted to the general history. The duration of the test is of 45 minutes. The test written to closed stimulus and answered dam it consists in n. 30 questions that are appraised in 30/30. The student that overcomes the test, getting an equal or superior vote to 18, it reports only to the oral examination on the concerning texts the second form. The students that don't overcome the test also report on the general part. In case of positive result the vote of the test cannot have refused. The final oral examination consists in an interview of 30 minutes max that wants to verify the mastery of the language, the ability to use the acquired knowledges and to connect her in the reasoning and to discuss and to deepen under various profiles the different matters treated in the second form. All those who do not take the written test will report to the oral on the entire program of the course. - Extended program
- The course articulates in two forms: in the first (24 hours 4 CFU) 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 more than the continuities and the uniformities, 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 form (12 hours 2 CFU), 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 Carlo Mansi, ambassador of the Republic of Lucca to the court in Vienna.