Unit EARLY MODERN HISTORY

Course
Cultural heritage
Study-unit Code
35067109
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Erminia Irace
Teachers
  • Erminia Irace
Hours
  • 60 ore - Erminia Irace
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Base
Area
Discipline storiche
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 shall be composed of:
A) general history of Europe in Early modern age since the beginning of Geographical explorations (15th century) to the Congress of Vienna (1815);
B) analysis and interpretation of the public image of the sovereign Louis XIV of France which was set up using a plurality of communication tools.
Reference texts
C. Capra, Storia moderna (1492-1848), Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2021, the following chapters:
7. Monarchie e imperi tra XV e XVI secolo
8. I nuovi orizzonti geografici
9. I nuovi orizzonti spirituali: Rinascimento e Riforma
10. La Controriforma e l’Italia del tardo Cinquecento
11. L’Europa nell’età di Filippo II
12. L’Europa nella guerra dei Trent’anni
13. Rivoluzioni e rivolte
14. L’Italia del Seicento
16. L’apogeo dell’assolutismo: la Francia di Luigi XIV
17. I nuovi equilibri europei tra Sei e Settecento
19. La Civiltà dei Lumi
21. Assolutismo illuminato e riforme
22. L’Italia del Settecento
23. Nascita di una nazione: gli Stati Uniti d’America
24. La Rivoluzione francese: dall’antico regime alla monarchia costituzionale
25. Dalla Repubblica giacobina al Direttorio
26. La Francia e l’Europa nell’età napoleonica
27. L’età della Restaurazione (paragrafi 1 e 2)

The book is also available in digital format; previous and subsequent editions of the book are also good.

B) P. Burke, Il Re Sole, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2017, chapters 1-9 e 11-12.


This program is also valid for non-attending students.
Educational objectives
Analytical knowledge of the early modern history;  development of historiographical language, also through the analysis of historical documents, about the phenomena economical, political and cultural concerning early modern history.
Prerequisites
It’s important to have information about the main events of the early modern European history (from late fifteenth century to early nineteenth century) and also to have logical-critical skills, in order to understand and argue the issues discussed in the lectures. The same prerequisites are also important for students who do not attend classes.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons in the classroom. The use of synchronous telematic mode (Teams platform) will be organized on the basis of the information provided by the University.
Other information
Information and materials useful for exam preparation can be found on the Unistudium platform: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php on the page dedicated to this teaching.
Attention: students who cannot attend lessons (e.g. working students) and students with disabilities and / or SLDs must contact the teacher via email (at the address erminia.irace@unipg.it) at the beginning of the lessons in order to agree on the procedures for carrying out the exam.
Learning verification modality
Attending students will have the opportunity to take a part of the exam program through two tests, which will take place between October and December 2022 (for more information see the Unistudium page dedicated to this course). Each test will last 1 hour and will consist of open-ended questions.
Students who have reported a positive assessment in the tests will be allowed to take the remaining part of the program (B part), which will take place orally in one of the official exam sessions.
In the official exam sessions (which will start from January 2023), students who have not taken the tests and students who fail the tests will be assessed through an oral exam that will cover the entire exam program.
This exam will last about 30 minutes and will be aimed at ascertaining the level of knowledge and understanding possessed by the student about the contents of the program as well as argumentative and logical-critical skills, in particular the property of language.
Those who have not taken the tests can, if they wish, divide the examination test into two parts as follows: they will take an oral exam in one of the official sessions on the section of the examination program concerning the historical period between the the beginning of geographical discoveries (fifteenth century) up to the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and will support in a second and subsequent interview the part of the examination program concerning the historical period between the events of Great Britain in the seventeenth century and the congress of Vienna (1815) together with the thematic study (part B of the exam program).
The achievement by the student of the ability to express an in-depth vision of the topics addressed (also elaborated on the basis of the careful study of the texts included in the program), combined with a good command of the expression and historiographical language, will allow to evaluate with good o excellent evaluations (from 27/30 to 30 e lode/30). A more superficial knowledge of the topics, combined with inadequate expressive skills, will lead to fair evaluations (from 24/30 to 26/30). Training gaps and / or inappropriate language - albeit in a context of minimal knowledge of the exam program - will lead to sufficient grades (from 18/30 to 23/30). Significant training gaps, inappropriate language and the inability to orient themselves in the topics under consideration will be evaluated negatively.
The final mark that will be recorded will consist of the average of the evaluations of the oral test (s) and of any written tests.
For students with certified disabilities and / or SLDs, compensatory measures are envisaged as provided for by the indications of the University (https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa). Contact the teacher at the beginning of the lessons.




Extended program
The course shall be composed of:
A) general history of Europe in Early modern age since the beginning of Geographical explorations (15th century) to the Congress of Vienna (1815);
B) analysis and interpretation of the public image of the sovereign Louis XIV of France which was set up using a plurality of communication tools.
The following topics will be analyzed:
The new geographical horizons
The new spiritual horizons: Renaissance and Reformation
The Counter-Reformation and Italy of the late sixteenth century
Europe in the age of Philip II
Europe in the Thirty Years War
Revolutions and revolts in the 17th century
Italy in the seventeenth century
The apogee of absolutism: the France of Louis XIV
The new European balances between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
The Civilization of the Enlightenment
Enlightened absolutism and reforms
Italy in the eighteenth century
Birth of a nation: the United States of America
The French Revolution: from the ancient regime to the constitutional monarchy; from the Jacobin Republic to the Directory
France and Europe in the Napoleonic era
The Congress of Vienna and the beginning of the Restoration
The public image of the Louis XIV (based on the volume by P. Burke, an integral part of the program).
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