Unit CHRISTIAN AND MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- A002658
- Curriculum
- Civiltà e cultura dell'antico
- Teacher
- Donatella Scortecci
- Teachers
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- Donatella Scortecci
- Hours
- 36 ore - Donatella Scortecci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course has as its objective the achievement of basic knowledge of
the most up-to-date trends of research in the field of Medieval
archaeology and contemporary near eastern (Byzantine and Islam) with
particular attention to the phenomena relating to the formation of the
medieval culture. Specifically, the course will address all issues
characterizing the discipline, methodological issues, such as theoretical
archaeology, broad spectrum aspects of research, such as urban
archaeology and town planning; the transformation of rural areas and the
phenomenon of incastellamento; funerary archaeology with its
implications on the anthropological level; Christian cult buildings and
large monastic complexes; the archaeology of architecture and
archaeology and artifacts. - Reference texts
- MANUALE
A.Augenti, Archeologia dell'Italia Medievale, Bari, Laterza, 2016.
Tin-depth studies on the themes will be available to
ONLINE students on the e-learning platform
(www.unistudium.unipg.it) - Educational objectives
- The course has as its objective the achievement of basic knowledge of
the most up-to-date trends of research in the field of Medieval
archaeology and contemporary of the Near East. The student will prove
like he acquired the ability to develop independently and developed
critical sense and speculative the definition of a "cultural object",
according to institutional policies: from concepts of integrity and
authenticity that relate to preservation and veracity of information,
descriptive capacity, constitutive elements analysis, comparison of
homogeneous types, sessions, diachronic variations, cultural contribution.
Prerequisites It is essential that the student has acquired methodological skills and - Prerequisites
- It is essential that the student has acquired methodological skills and a
solid foundation in the knowledge of historical and archaeological
disciplines of classical and medieval historian, with particular regard to
late Antiquity and the early middle ages. - Teaching methods
- Subject to teaching changes in presence
- Other information
- Attending students will have the possibility of individual programs agreed
with the teacher - Learning verification modality
- The assessment provides a test whose objective is to make the learning
of fundamental issues of discipline and the ability to establish
comparisons, synchronic criteria diacronici and surveying
instruments.The student will demonstrate that it can process the matter
through a rigorous scientific methodology, which takes account of the
proper use of documentary sources and materials.The test consists of an
oral interview and the presentation of individual seminars by the students
on the course topics. The timing see a first stage of verification issues
and a second job verification indiviale. The duration is not more than 30
minutes, 15/20 reserved general verification and ten to the report of the
seminar.The type of test is represented by a stimulus with a reply. The
final measurement examination test gives two-thirds of the General test
score and a third working seminar. - Extended program
- The programme includes a General first part devoted to fundamental
problems of medieval Archaeology.A part of the course is reserved for
relationships with the architecture and the institutions.You pass, then, the
most important Italian archaeological contexts, according to a thematic
policy.The relationship between medieval history archeologist of the city
refer several issues, from those related to prevention and to the drafting
of risk cards, to those more institutional legal and economic, until the
most recent debate on urban archaeology, with examples of Brescia and
Verona to the North of the Crypta Balbi and the excavations of Naples for
the Central and South Italy. By urban contexts you pass to the study of
the castles, and the rural population incastellamento..The relationship
between archaeology and history of mentality is the subject of dedicated
necropolis which addresses the ambiguous relationshipbetween indigenous rituality and alien cultural influences with examples
of Longobard necropolis of Nocera Umbra and Castel Trosino.The study of
rural settlement concerns the monastic complexes theme imported,
culture centers, power generators and inhabited. The most important
Longobard monastery of San Salvatore in Brescia and San Vincenzo al
Volturno.The archaeology of churches is one of the most investigated
themes from medieval Archaeology in the terms of architectural
sequence of burials, materials, site development. Examples: the building
of Santa Maria foris portas in Castelseprio, San Lorenzo di Altavilla
Silentina. The archaeology of residential housing occupies the structures,
in particular the research typology of structures, materials used and the
forms of reuse, with examples of Brescia, Luni, class, Pisa.Finally one of
the most innovative aspects of medieval Archaeology covers the
production and archaeology artifacts as knowledge of subregional
sequences, the diachronic readings of certain phenomena, and
productive aspects of work organisation, the problem of transmission
technology. Examples in ceramics, glass, wood, metal