MEDIEVAL HISTORY I
STORIA MEDIEVALE I
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| 2017/2018 | 12 |
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| Tommaso Di Carpegna Gabrielli Falconieri | After lessons or by appointment (email for appointment) |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
French
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
This course is a general introduction to the political, economic, social and cultural aspects of the medieval millennium in Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean area. Taking this course should allow students to achieve a decent level of understanding of the principal cognitive tools involved (historical research methods, use and role of sources, historiography) and the fundamental themes that characterize the study of this period. Particular attention will be placed on the concept that history is not simply a consolidated description of facts to memorize, but rather a continuously evolving reflection on things that happened, even if a long time ago, which in reality still condition our present.
Program
This course presents diachronically some macro-themes of medieval history, for example: the passage from antiquity to the middle ages, Islam, empire, the Church, government institutions, environmental, social and demographic evolution, the city, the economy, the concept of the Middle ages, gender history. The course will also involve reading and comment on some medieval sources. The syllabus will be handed out during the first lessons and will be published online.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding
Students should obtain knowledge and understanding of the primary historical processes that took place from the V to the XV centuries in Italy, Europe, and the Mediterranean, mastering the discipline to include a post-secondary level of understanding of the primary methods of historical research and its interdisciplinary dimensions.
Applying knowledge and understanding
Students must be able to apply their knowledge and understanding of historical processes so as to demonstrate a professional approach to their work - that is, the applicability of the study of medieval history to the contemporary world. The must also possess adequate skills in creating and sustaining arguments as well as in asking and possibly resolving questions in the field of medieval history.
Making judgements
Students must develop the ability to collect and interpret data provided during the course of the lessons, from bibliographic texts as well as from sources, so as to be able to make individual judgements about the political-institutional, socio-economic and cultural phenomena of the medieval period.
Communication skills
Students must develop effective communications skills so as to be able to communicate with both specialists and non-specialists about topics and events pertaining to medieval history - including areas of methodology, epistemology and communications that characterize the discipline of medieval history.
Learning skills
Students must develop learning skills necessary for undertaking self-directed further study in the area of medieval history.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
Power Point presentations; visits to conservation institutes; Blended Learning.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures; meetings with specialists. Meetings with the professor are advised for asking questions or requesting clarification.
- Attendance
Attendance is not mandatory, but it is strongly recommended.
- Course books
a) A medieval history textbook.
- Suggested book: M. Montanari, Storia medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010 [or any earlier edition]
b) The following book and article:
- T. di Carpegna Falconieri, A. Feniello, Ch. Grasso. Fonti medievali. Un'antologia, Roma, Carocci, 2017
- T. di Carpegna Falconieri, Medioevo, quante storie! Fra divagazioni preziose e ragioni dell’esistenza, in Medioevo quante storie. V Settimana di Studi Medievali 130 anni di storie. Giornata conclusiva, Roma, 21-23 maggio 2013, a cura di Isa Lori Sanfilippo, Roma, Istituto storico italiano per il medio evo, 2014, pp. 109-137 (available online).
c) Student's choice from one of the following:
- F. Bertini (a cura di), Medioevo al femminile [any edition]
- M. Bloch, Les roys thaumaturges / The Royal Touch [any edition]
- M. Bloch, Apologie pour l'histoire / The Historian's Craft [any edition]
- T. di Carpegna Falconieri, Médiéval et militant. Penser le contemporain à travers le moyen âge, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2015 (or the Italian, or the Spanish edition; the English edition is in press)
- P. Delogu, Introduzione alla storia medievale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2003
- G. Duby, Le dimanche de Bouvines / The Legend of Bouvines [any edition]
- A. Gurevic, Les catégories de la culture médiévale / Categories of Medieval Culture [any edition]
- E.H Kantorowicz, Frédéric II / Frederick the Second [any edition]
- S. Tramontana, Il medioevo. Le fonti e i temi, Roma, Carocci, 2005
- Assessment
Oral exam. This exam consists of some questions (usually three) about the texts and the topics discussed in class. The questions are general in nature and posed in the form of a conversation.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
As well as the three books that attending students must read, non-attending students must also study the sources examined in class; they can find them on the the Blended Learning platform. The must write a term paper of 25,000 characters on a topic to be agreed upon with the professor. The paper should be sent to the professor at least one week before the exam.
- Course books
Same as for attending students.
- Assessment
Oral exam as for attending students, and evaluation of the term paper.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Notes
Professor's web page: www.tommasodicarpegna.it
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