Unit LATE ANCIENT ROMAN HISTORY
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- GP005346
- Curriculum
- Civiltà e cultura dell'antico
- Teacher
- Rita Lizzi
- Teachers
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- Rita Lizzi
- Hours
- 36 ore - Rita Lizzi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storiche, filosofiche, antropologiche e sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/03
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Institutions, culture and religion, economy and society from fourth to sixth century AD, through the major events of Late Antiquity.
History of late antique Rome and current affairs: the transformation of the imperial institutions in the reformed Empire of Diocletian and Constantine
Religious evolution from polytheism to Christianity and the relationship between Empire and - Reference texts
- For attending students:
- A manual chosen from the following, to revive the knowledge of Roman history:
AA.VV., Storia di Roma, Edizioni del Prisma 2013
G. Clemente, Guida alla storia Romana, Mondadori 2008
G.Geraci-A.Marcone, Storia Romana, Le Monnier 2006
– A specific manual on Late Antiquity:
L. De Salvo- C. Neri, Storia Romana. L’età tardoantica, Jovence 2010
– For the main topic:
R. Lizzi Testa (ed.), Late Antiquity in Contemporary Debate, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017
A. Marcone, Tarda Antichità, Carocci 2020
R. Lizzi Testa, Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity, London-New York 2022.
Not attending students, in addition to the volumes already mentioned, will have to add a volume to be chosen from:
G. Ravegnani, Ezio, Salerno Editrice 2018
A. Marcone, Augusto, Salerno Editrice 2017
A. Marcone, Giuliano, Salerno Editrice 2019
L. Fezzi, Pompeo, Salerno Editrice 2019
U. Roberto, Il secolo dei Vandali, 21Editore 2020
A.Marcone, L'ultimo anno dell'Impero. Roma: 476 d.C., Roma Salerno Editrice 2021 - Educational objectives
- The main knowledges that students will acquire:
- The major events in the history of Roman Empire
- The transformation of Ancient political institutions into the main Late Antique institutions (Courts, Princeps, Dominus and his civilian officials in the Court and in the provinces of Late Antiquity)
- economic and social issues of Late Antiquity
- Religious evolution from polytheism to Christianity - Prerequisites
- Students of this course must have already passed an exam of Roman history. This precondition is valid both for attending and not attending students.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
- Lectures that will cover all the issues and problems related to Late Antiquity
- brief reports / debates held by students as an in-depth discussion of the topics presented in the course - Other information
- The course will be held in the second semester, beginning in the last week of February 2023.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam involves a final oral exam (the dates laid down by calendar), which consists of a discussion-interview on the topics covered during the course and studied in-depth in recommended texts. The oral examination is used to ascertain the level of knowledge attained by the student, his ability to make connections and to briefly expose the main historical issues addressed during the course. The duration of the oral final exam varies depending on the performance of the student.
- Extended program
- The course will be organized in two parts:
a first part (about 14 hours) will be on the historiography of the topic, to understand when and how the last centuries of the Roman Empire began to be appreciated not as age of decadence but as a period when the institutional life, politics and religion of the Empire by fourth to the sixth century AD. were relaunched. In this part we will examine the main institutional changes, and the political, economic and religious reorganization of the Roman Empire from Diocletian-Constantine.
A second part (about 22 hours) will be dedicated to the deepening of a specific topic: "Christiam Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity". In this part, the relationships between some Emperors of IV-V c.(Constantine, Julian, Valentinian I and his sons, Theodosius I and Honorius), the Roman Senate, the provincial élites, the Roman Chrurch and sone heads of externae gentes (Alaric and Genseric). Particular attention will be reserved to the élites' propaganda through haruspical interpretations and magia.