MODERN HISTORY I
STORIA MODERNA I
Body, physicality and material life in Early Modern Europe
Corpo, corporeità e vita materiale nella prima età moderna
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2022/2023 | 12 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Guido Dall'Olio | From April, 5 2023 until the beginning of the next academic year the professor receives by appointment only. |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
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
The first part of the course aims to give the students a general knowledge of the great problems of European early modern history, so they will construct a basis for more advanced knowledges.
The second part of the course will examine a more particular problem, viewed through the reading and the analysis of texts and documents. The general context, however, will be kept into consideration, too.
The knowledge of Early Modern History is necessary for those who will be teacher in the secondary schools, and it also allows the student to acquire more detailed knowledge in other subjects.
Program
The course
is divided into two parts: a general one, and a monographic one. Each one of this parts will consist in 36 hours of lesson (the whole course consists in 72 hours of lesson)
The lessons wil begin September 20, 2021
First part (general)
The main problems of Early modern history
Syllabus:
1. Indroduction: history, history of historiography, and sources.
2. The general framework: historical demography, economy and society of Earli Modern Europe
3. The great discoveries: Columbus and others.
4. Early modern political Europe
5. Religion: Reformation and Counter-Reformation
6. The general crisis of the XVII century.
7. The French Revolution.
8. The industrial revolution.
Second (monographic) part: a history of the body in the Early Modern period
Syllabus:
1. Body and soul: theology and medicine.
2. The material life: body care, home, clothing.
3. The body as a boundary: spirit possession and exorcism.
4. The body in the popular culture.
5. Simbolic bodies: the King's two bodies
6. The death of the body
7. Disciplining the body: modernity as constraint
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
At the end of the first part of the course there will be a test (not an exam) with multiple choices questions, so that the students will be able to self-evaluate the degree of their knowledge.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Frontal lessons
- Course books
Textbooks for the first part of the course
A modern history handbook (chosen between the two listed below), and a complementary textbook:
1. One of the following handbooks:
a. FRANCESCO BENIGNO, L'età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell'America alla Restaurazione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005;
b. CARLO CAPRA, Storia moderna (1492-1848), Firenze, Le Monnier, 2004 (until chapter 25 included, that is, until page 320)
c. Introduzione alla storia moderna, a cura di Marco Bellabarba e Vincenzo Lavenia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 (Note: this manual is particularly complex and difficult; it is intended only for students who are strongly interested in world history)
2. Complementary textbook, chosen between the following:
a. GIAMPAOLO ROMAGNANI, La società di antico regime (XVI-XVIII secolo). Temi e problemi storiografici, Roma, Carocci, 2010
b. GUIDO DALL'OLIO, Storia Moderna. I temi e le fonti. Nuova edizione, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
Textbooks for the students who choosse to give the exam in English
M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013 (and later reprints)
Second (monographic) part of the course (mandatory textbooks):
N, Elias, La civiltà delle buone maniere, tr. it. Bologna, Il Mulino (varie edizioni), con particolare riferimento alla parte seconda: "Le buone maniere"
R. Sarti, Vita di casa. Abitare, mangiare, vestire nell'Europa moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003 (e edizioni successive).
Si ricorda che i materiali che verranno forniti attraverso Moodle (testi, immagini e così via) sono parte integrante della bibliografia per l'esame.
Textbooks for the students who choose to give the exam in English:
1. General History:
M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013 (and following reprints)
2. Monographic readings:
Peter Burke, The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: Essays on Perception and Communication, Cambridge UP 2005 (and following editions)
Guido Ruggiero, The Boundaries of Eros. Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice, Oxford UP USA, 1989 (and following Editions)
NOTICE: Beyond the reading of the above texts, the students have to study the primary and secondary sources that the lecturer will make available on Moodle platform for blended learning, that will be analyzed during the lessons
- Assessment
Oral exam.
The oral exam aims to evaluate: 1) the knowledge of the contents of the subject; 2) the ability to distinguish and to evaluate the different historical narratives and their reliability; 3) the ability to use the specific language of history and of the object of the course: Each of these three criteria is graduated according to five levels: not sufficient (grade less than 18); sufficient (from 18 to 24); fair (from 24 to 27); good (from 27 to 30); excellent (30 cum laude).
- 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
Individual study
- Course books
General History (the same texts as for attending students)
A modern history handbook (chosen between the two listed below), and a complementary textbook:
1. One of the following handbooks:
a. FRANCESCO BENIGNO, L'età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell'America alla Restaurazione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005;
b. CARLO CAPRA, Storia moderna (1492-1848), Firenze, Le Monnier, 2004 (until chapter 25 included, that is, until page 320)
c. Introduzione alla storia moderna, a cura di Marco Bellabarba e Vincenzo Lavenia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 (Note: this manual is particularly complex and difficult; it is intended only for students who are strongly interested in world history)
2. Complementary textbook, chosen between the following:
a. GIAMPAOLO ROMAGNANI, La società di antico regime (XVI-XVIII secolo). Temi e problemi storiografici, Roma, Carocci, 2010
b. GUIDO DALL'OLIO, Storia Moderna. I temi e le fonti. Nuova edizione, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
Textbooks for the students who choosse to give the exam in English
M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013 (and later reprints)
Monographic reading:
For non attending students, the course books are different. The students have to choose one between the follwing couples of books (the choice is between the couples of books, not between the books):
1.
O. Niccoli, Storie di ogni giorno in una città del Seicento, Roma, Officina Libraria, 2021 (anche la prima edizione, ormai fuori commercio, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000)
and Marzio Barbagli, Sotto lo stesso tetto. Mutamenti della famiglia in Italia dal XV al XX secolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013
2.
Massimo Donattini, Dal Nuovo Mondo all'America. Scoperte geografiche e colonialismo (secoli XV-XVI), Roma, Carocci, 2017
and Andrew Pettegree, L'invenzione delle notizie. Come il mondo arrivò a conoscersi, Torino, Einaudi, 2015
Textbooks for the students who choose to give the exam in English
1. General History
M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013 (2nd edition)
2. Monographic reading
D. McCulloch, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700, New York, Viking, 2004 (and following editions)
or, at the choice of the student:
Peter H. Wilson, Europe's Tragedy. A New History of the Thirty Years War, Cambridge (MA), The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009 (London, Penguin Books, 2010)
- Assessment
Oral exam.
The oral exam aims to evaluate: 1) the knowledge of the contents of the subject; 2) the ability to distinguish and to evaluate the different historical narratives and their reliability; 3) the ability to use the specific language of history and of the object of the course: Each of these three criteria is graduated according to five levels: not sufficient (grade less than 18); sufficient (from 18 to 24); fair (from 24 to 27); good (from 27 to 30); excellent (30 cum laude).
- 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.
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