Unit MEDIEVAL HISTORY
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP005971
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Stefania Zucchini
- Teachers
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- Stefania Zucchini
- Hours
- 72 ore - Stefania Zucchini
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Storia, filosofia, psicologia, pedagogia, antropologia e geografia
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- The course program shown below is for 12 credits; for 9 credits and 6 credits see below "Programma esteso".
The course is divided into two parts, each corresponding to 6 credits: the first focuses on the medieval history of Europe (5th-15th centuries); the second on some specific topics (the religious communities of the Middle Ages; the medieval city; epidemics and transformation of society; production and transmission of culture, with particular attention to Frederick II of Swabia).
The last 10 hours of teaching activity will be carried out in co-presence with Prof. Irace, professor of modern history, and will be dedicated to deepening the knowledge about the relationships between the Middle Ages and the modern age, with particular reference to economic, political and institutional dynamics and cultural features that characterized the fifteenth century. - Reference texts
- INSTITUTIONAL PART
(12 cfu; 9 cfu; 6 cfu):
Andrea Zorzi, "Manuale di storia medievale", Torino, UTET, 2016.
MONOGRAPHIC PART (9 and 12 credits)
2 of the following essays chosen by the student:
- M.P. Alberzoni, "Minori e predicatori fino alla metà del Duecento", in "Martire per la fede. San Pietro da Verona domenicano e inquisitore", a cura di G. Festa, Bologna, ESD, 2007, pp. 51-119;
- I. Barbiera, M. Castiglioni, G. Dalla Zuanna, "La mortalità ai tempi della Peste Nera: indagine paleodemografica dell'Italia di XIV secolo", in "Archeologia medievale. Cultura materiale. Insediamenti. Territorio", 43 (2016), pp. 33-40;
- N. D'Acunto, "Argomenti di natura giuridica e strumenti della comunicazione pubblica durante la lotta per le investiture", in "Verbum e ius: predicazione e sistemi giuridici nell'Occidente medievale", Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018, pp. 89-107;
- F. Delle Donne, "L’elaborazione dell’immagine di Costanza d’Altavilla nel Due e Trecento. Incroci di tradizioni tra cronache meridionali e centro-settentrionali, tra Dante e Boccaccio", in "Reti medievali. Rivista", 21 (2020), pp. 1-17;
- T. Duranti, La “mortifera pestilenza”: la peste medievale del 1347, in "Quaderni della Scuola di Storia della medicina", 2 (2020), pp. 11-38;
- E. Faini, "Alle origini della memoria comunale. Prime ricerche", in "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienisc hen Archiven und Bibliotheken", 88 (2008), pp. 61-81;
- M. Ferrari, "«Pacem, non bellum voluit». L’iconografia pubblica della signoria negli affreschi del Broletto", in "Berardo Maggi. Un principe della Chiesa al crepuscolo del Medioevo", a cura di G. Archetti, Brescia, Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana, 2012, pp. 175-207;
- E. Faini, "Prima di Brunetto. Sulla formazione intellettuale dei laici a Firenze ai primi del Duecento", in "Reti Medievali. Rivista", 18 (2017), pp. 189-218;
- B. Pio, "I luoghi della formazione universitaria a Bologna nel Trecento", in "Sapiens, ut loquatur, multa prius considerat. Studi di storia medievale offerti a Lorenzo Paolini", a cura di R. Parmeggiani e C. Bruschi, Spoleto, Fondazione CISAM, 2019, pp. 265-280;
- A. Zorzi, "Dante tra i Bianchi e i Neri", in "Reti Medievali. Rivista, 18 (2017). pp. 391-413.
MONOGRAPHIC PART (12 credits)
a book chosen by the student from the following:
- N. D'Acunto, ¿La lotta per le investiture. Una rivoluzione medievale (998-1122)”, Roma, Carocci, 2020.
- R. Bordone, "Uno stato d'animo. Memoria del tempo e comportamenti urbani nel mondo comunale italiano", Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2002.
- P. Riché, J. Verger, "Nani sulle spalle di giganti. Maestri e allievi nel Medioevo", Milano, Jaca Book, 2019.
- F. Delle Donne, "La porta del sapere. Cultura alla corte di Federico II di Svevia", Roma, Carocci, 2019.
IN ADDITION ONLY FOR NON ATTENDING STUDENTS (12 credits, 9 credits, 6 credits):
S. Gasparri, "Voci dai secoli oscuri. Un percorso nelle fonti dell'alto medioevo", Roma, Carocci, 2017. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of medieval life's different aspects (politics, economy, society); knowledge of the main medieval sources and bibliography (D.D.1); ability to approach the peculiarities of the Middle Ages with a critical and scientific attitude; ability to recognize the causes and effects of specific events (D.D.2); ability to formulate questions and solve interpretive problems related Medieval Ages (D.D.3). The student will also receive some guidelines to approach to historical research (D.D.4-D.D.5).
The didactic activity in co-presence aims to deepen the knowledge and logical-critical skills possessed by the students in reference to the periodization of European history and in particular to the main characteristics of a age of transition, the fifteenth century. - Prerequisites
- Roman history's basic knowledge. Indeed the Middle Ages can be seen as a transformation of the classical and late antique world.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons that will be given in the presence (on campus) and / or distance lessons through the e-learning platform Teams, on the basis of the indications approved by the Ministry of the University and the University of Perugia in reference to "phase 3" of the health emergency caused by Covid-19.
- Other information
- - All the essays of the monographic study for 9 credits and the book by Renato Bordone (one of the texts of your choice for 12 credits) are available free online. More specific information and teaching materials can be found on the Unistudium platform:
https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php to the page dedicated to Medieval history (prof.ssa S. Zucchini).
- Students of "Degree course in Humanities" can write a short dissertation to which the teacher will assign a score of 3 credits. The work will have to be agreed with the teacher. - Learning verification modality
- The lessons include online exercises on the institutional part; in a subsequent oral test, which will be held in one of the usual exam sessions, the knowledge of the institutional part and the monographic insights provided.
The oral exam will consist of an interview lasting up to 30 minutes.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or DSA visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- The Medieval History course is divided into different modules depending on the degree courses.
The 12 cfu course (72 h) includes two modules: the first on the institutional part (6 cfu), the second on specific topics of medieval history (6 cfu). For the second part of the course, the study of a book among those proposed in the "Testi di riferimento" section is required.
The 9-credit (54 h) course also has two modules: the first on the institutional part (6 cfu), the second on specific topics of medieval history (3 cfu). For the second part of the course, the study of 2 essays among those proposed in the "Testi di riferimento" section is required.
The 6 cfu course (36 h) provides a single module on the institutional part.
All non-attending students, of any degree course, must add Stefano Gasparri's book (see the "Testi di riferimento" section).