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 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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 Church. - 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, Routledge 2022.
Not attending students will read:
G.Geraci-A.Marcone, Storia Romana, Le Monnier 2006
A. Marcone, Il mondo tardoantico, Carocci 2000
A. Marcone, Tarda Antichità, Carocci 2020
They will also add a volume to be chosen from:
A. Marcone, Giuliano, Salerno Editrice 2019
U. Roberto, Il secolo dei Vandali, 21Editore 2020 - 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 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: ‘The Debate on the Altar of Victoria in the Roman Curia’. In this part we will examine some texts, next to Symmachus, Relatio III and Ambrose, Epp. 72 and 73, that allow us to value the strategies of pagan aristocratics in a phase of deep christianization, often in close competition. - Other information
- Attendance is highly recommended to all students for a better and more thorough knowledge of the themes that will be the subject of the exam. The course will be in the II semester, in the last week of February 2024. Consult the official calendar on the website of the Department of Lettere.
- 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: ‘The Debate on the Altar of Victoria in the Roman Curia’. In this part we will examine some texts, next to Symmachus, Relatio III and Ambrose, Epp. 72 and 73, that allow us to value the strategies of pagan aristocratics in a phase of deep christianization, often in close competition. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Quality education; gender equality; reducing inequalities.