MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

Mediaeval History

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SIMBULA Pinuccia Franca

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of the main issues of the European and Italian middle age between the fifth and fifteenth centuries

AF code:

40101395

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

individual oral examination

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

The course aims at providing the knowledge of the critical tools for historical research through the examination of various types of written sources (in the vernacular and in Latin) produced in the Middle Ages. Lectures and seminars with insights on specific issues, as well as practical lessons with the analysis and commentary of the presented texts, will enable students to deal with the problems inherent in the exegesis of the sources and the tools of historical investigation and historiography.

Contents

The course will examine the production of documentary sources of public and private nature and of narrative sources, with particular attention to the late medieval age. Starting from a framework of the written sources, different types of texts will be considered, in order to illustrate with concrete examples the difficulties in dealing with sources for historical reconstruction.

Recommended Bibliography

1. P. Cammarosano, Italia medievale. Struttura e geografia delle fonti scritte, Roma, Carocci 1991 (e ed. successive)
2. One of these three books:
1. P. Delogu, Introduzione alla storia medievale, Il Mulino 2003

2. P. Cammarosano, Guida allo studio della storia medievale, Laterza 2014

3. S. Tramontana, Capire il medioevo. Le fonti e i temi, Roma, Carocci 2005 (e ed. successive)

3. 3. A booklet with materials examined during the lessons will form an integral part of the examination.

For non-attending students textbooks are the same. The booklet will be replaced by the reading of one of the following textbooks:

B. Smalley, Storici nel medioevo, Napoli, Liguori, 2012

Teaching Methods

Lectures and seminars with analysis of the sources; reports from individual students or study groups on specific topics with the presentation of search paths and historiographical reflections in order to stimulate awareness in the use of tools of historical investigation. For attending students, the reading and discussion of the texts examined in the classroom and the discussion of the papers prepared during the course will form part of the final test

Contacts/More Information

Booklets will be available at the end of the course

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