Unit MODERN HISTORY

Course

Foreign languages and cultures

Study-unit Code

GP004920

Curriculum

In all curricula

Teacher

Filippo Maria Troiani

Teachers

Filippo Maria Troiani

Hours

54 ore - Filippo Maria Troiani

CFU

Course Regulation

Coorte 2026

Offered

2026/27

Learning activities

Base

Area

Discipline storiche, geografiche e socio-antropologiche

Sector

HIST-02/A

Type of study-unit

Opzionale (Optional)

Type of learning activities

Attività formativa monodisciplinare

Language of instruction

Italian

Contents

In the first part of the course will be addressed the main themes related to the birth and development of modern society in Europe from the end of the fifteenth century to the Napoleonic Empire, intertwining the political space with social events, economic and cultural issues related to the family, the status of women and abandoned children. In the second module we will analyze the historical events related to the foundation and the educational-assistance activity of the Educandato Bambino Gesù of Spoleto between the nineteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Reference texts

To study the first part of the course, students will use the slides on the general overview of modern history uploaded to Unistudium and the textbook by G. Gullino, G. Muto, R. Sabbatini, and A. Caracausi, *Modern History: A University Textbook*, EDISES, 2014. For the section on social issues, students will use the text by Giovanna Da Molin, *Storia sociale dell’Italia moderna* (Social History of Modern Italy), Editrice La Scuola, 2014 (chapters 4, 6, 7, and 8 only). For the study of the second module on the Bambino Gesù Girls’ Boarding School in Spoleto, students will use the handout by F. M. Troiani, *The Bambino Gesù Girls’ Boarding School in Spoleto*, which they can find at the Lacomunaledue copy shop on Corso Cavour in Perugia. Students with disabilities and/or specific learning disabilities (SLDs) who, having completed the standard accreditation process through SOL, have gained access to University services, may request the compensatory tools provided for by regulations (e.g., textbooks in digital format; instructional materials in accessible formats—such as presentations, handouts, and workbooks—provided in advance of classes if necessary). For more information, please visit https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.

Educational objectives

To know the changes and the breakups that have marked deeply the history of Europe in the modern age, underlining the changes more than the continuities and the uniformities, to analyze the multiplicity of the political models, cultural, religious and of the working forms of the organization of the society in the European history. To reconstruct the trials that have brought to the today's condition, individualizing in the European expansion, in to rise of a world economy, in the connection of the contents through the emigrations of mass, in the planetary widening of the international relationships, in the formation of a cosmopolitan culture, the roots of the contemporaneity.

Prerequisites

With the purpose to understand and to face the course the student must possess the general notions concerning the chronological arc taken in examination by the course (1492 -1820), to know how to connect facts and events in the time, to reorganize data and concepts to know the principals conceptual and terminological tools of the discipline.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons with projection of slides and films that summarize the main contents. Students/s with disabilities and/or DSA, after consultation with the teacher, may request any teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, tutorials), provided if necessary in advance of lessons, as well as the use of other technological tools to facilitate the study phase. For general information, consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa

Other information

During the carrying out of the course you/they will have made of the students on the base UNISTUDIUM the materials used in the frontal lessons available.For urgent communications and appointments to write mail to the address filippo.troiani@unipg.it. Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA

Learning verification modality

The evaluation consists of a final oral exam. The final oral exam consists of a 30-minute max interview related to the entire program of the course that aims to ascertain the knowledge of the topics covered and the mastery of the language, the ability to use the acquired knowledge and to connect it in the argument beyond the ability to discuss and deepen in various respects the different topics covered in the first and second module. Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD

Extended program

The course is divided into two parts. In the first (48 hours) we will deal with the social and economic changes and ruptures that have profoundly marked history of Europe in the modern age, emphasizing the changes, plurality of political, cultural, religious models and forms of organization of society. This will be achieved through the knowledge and study of: The modern age and its institutions A journey into the history of the family Europe and Italy of the 500s Abandoned children Europe and 600’s Italy Orphans: abandonment and care Europe and Italy in the 18th century Charity and assistance: between public and private In the second (6 hours) we will address the theme related to female models of assistance and education with a specific focus on the Educandato feminine Child Jesus of Spoleto

Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile

Among the goals of the 2030 agenda that the course aims to pursue are the issues related to respect and equality between peoples, equal dignity, as well as the result to be achieved, In historical terms, an effective overcoming of gender inequalities achieved through a quality education system.