Unit EARLY MODERN HISTORY
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- 35067109
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Erminia Irace
- Teachers
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- Erminia Irace
- Hours
- 60 ore - Erminia Irace
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- 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) thematic in-depth analysis dedicated to the Council of Trent. - Reference texts
- A) A school or university-level textbook covering the centuries of the early modern age. For example: V. Criscuolo, Storia moderna, Milano, Pearson, 2023, chapters 7, 9-22, 24-30, or Carlo Capra, Storia moderna (1492-1848), Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2021 (Part II, chapters 7-19, 21-27).
The Criscuolo and Capra volumes are also available in ebook format. All other editions and reprints of these volumes are also fine. Other early modern history textbooks at university and upper secondary school level are also suitable.
B) Adriano Prosperi, Il Concilio di Trento: una introduzione storica, Torino, Einaudi, 2001.
This program is also valid for non-attending students. - Educational objectives
- The course aims to deepen the knowledge and skills acquired by students during their previous schooling in the field of modern history, in order to develop a critical awareness of the topics addressed. In this way, students will possess the fundamental foundations for tackling the specific subjects belonging to the curriculum of their chosen degree course.
In particular, the course has two objectives: 1) to increase students' analytical knowledge of the main issues concerning European and, more generally, western history of the early modern age; 2) to develop in students an appropriate historiographic and interpretative language, also through the specific analysis of historiographic and methodological insights, illustrated during the lectures and an integral part of the examination programme. The main skills acquired will be: the ability to express oneself in an appropriate historiographic-interpretive language, the ability to contextualise economic, political and cultural phenomena concerning the early modern era in a logical and argued manner. - 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 basics 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 classes (e.g. working students) and students with disabilities and/or DSA must write to the lecturer (at erminia.irace@unipg.it) at the beginning of class to schedule an appointment to be held in person or on Teams where the examination arrangements will be agreed. - 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 2024 (for more information see the Unistudium page dedicated to this course). Each test will last 1 hour and will consist of three 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 2025), 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). - Extended program
- The topics covered in class and which will be the subject of the examination are as follows:
PART A) of the examination programme:
General overview concerning the Western European states in the 15th century, with specific information concerning the Italian states, France, the Spanish territories, the Holy Roman Empire, England.
The invention of movable type printing and its cultural consequences
Geographical discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries
The formation of the Portuguese and Spanish colonial empires
The wars of Italy
Charles V Spanish monarch and Holy Roman Emperor
The Protestant Reformation (Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Calvinism)
The Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation
Europe in the Age of Philip II
The independence of the United Provinces
The religious wars in France and the political recomposition in the reign of Henry IV
The Thirty Years' War (ending with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648)
England in the 17th century: from the Stuarts to constitutional monarchy
The development of absolutism in France from Richelieu to the long reign of Louis XIV
The formation of the French, Dutch and English colonial empires
Seventeenth-century Italy
The Age of Enlightenment
Enlightened absolutism and reforms in Western European states
The formation of the United States of America
The French Revolution
The Napoleonic Era
The Congress of Vienna.
PART B) of the examination programme:
The contents of Prosperi's entire volume will be covered in the lecture and will be the subject of the examination, in particular the issues related to the convocation of the Council of Trent, the European political context in the period of the Council, the doctrinal and reform issues of the Church, the main decrees deliberated by the Council, the main protagonists of the Council, the consequences of the Tridentine decrees in the reorganisation processes of the Catholic Church and in the European culture of the early modern age.
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