Unit MEDIEVAL AND HUMANISTIC LATIN LITERATURE
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- GP005242
- Curriculum
- Storia europea
- Teacher
- Patrizia Stoppacci
- Teachers
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- Patrizia Stoppacci
- Hours
- 36 ore - Patrizia Stoppacci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The literature of the "visiones" between the early and late Middle Ages. History and fortune of a literary genre.
- Reference texts
- - Maria Pia Ciccarese, Visioni dell'Aldilà in Occidente. Fonti, modelli e testi, Bologna 1987.
- Alison Morgan, Dante e l'Aldilà medievale, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2012.
Bibliographic informations will be provided in class on the basis of the individual topics covered. - Educational objectives
- An adequate knowledge of the the Medieval Latin literature in its development (6th-14th).
- Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of Latin language and Medieval history. Useful Latin paleography and Codicology.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons on the subjects covered by the program. Some seminars will be held at the end of the course to discuss the most significant historiographic issues concerning the Medieval travel literature.
- Other information
- Non-attending students will have to consult the teacher at the beginning of the course and before starting the study of the program (see the reception hours in the web-page http://www.unipg.it/pagina-personale?n=patrizia.stoppacci).
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination in annual sessions to verify the program on the topics of the two modules; expected average duration 20-30 minuts. The purpose of the test is to verify the knowledge gained during the course, evaluate the critical skills and the ability to expose the main topics discussed.
- Extended program
- The course aims to provide students with an overview of the history of the Latin literature produced during the Centuries of the Middle Ages. The lessons will be devoted to the discovery of Medieval literature of “visiones”, trough the examination of some specific authors; particular attention will be given to the texts produced by Gregorius Magnus (Dialogi), Gregorius Turonensis (Historia Francorum), Beda Venerabillis (Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), “Visio Baronti”, “Navigatio sancti Brendani”, Heito Augiensis and Walafridus Strabo (Visio Wettini), H. de saltrey (Tractatus de purgatorio sancti Patriciii), “Visio Alberici”, Iacobus de Veronas Bonvesinus de Riva.