ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ART

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in SCIENZE DEI BENI CULTURALI

Disciplinary Sector:

Christian and Mediaeval Archeology

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Non si richiedono requisiti in accesso.

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CHRISTIAN ARCHEOLOGY

SCIENZE DEI BENI CULTURALI

AF code:

A001362

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

I Final examination where will be verified knowledge, competences and acquired ability to link with akin disciplines.

II Oral exam

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

I
Knowledge of material culture attestations connected to the preliminary diffusion of Christianism and, more in general, contextualised in Late Antiquity; ability to analyse differentiated research sources in order to arrive to a historical reconstruction with specific focus on Late Antiquity.

II
General outlines of italian medieval archeology, with particular reference to the history of rural settlements, cities, cemeteries and artifacts

Contents

I
Brief introduction to the disciplinary sector; research sources; funerary rites and places; Martyr sanctuaries; catacombs; ritual buildings: rural areas convertion to Christianity.

II
Medieval archeology in Europe and in Italy. Issues and problems of medieval archeology in Sardinia.
Students will participate in excavations of medieval sites directed by professor Milanese, to exploration and territorial laboratories and study finds.

Recommended Bibliography

I
In preparing the final examination students can study on the following volumes:
-TESTINI P., Archeologia Cristiana,Bari, Edipuglia, 1980 (seconda edizione), pp. 1-162, 317-326, 547-671
- PERGOLA PH., Le catacombe romane. Storia e topografia, Roma, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1997 (riedito da Carocci, Roma), pp. 19-30, 49-105
- Selected entries from the Dizionario patristico e di Antichità cristiane, Casale Monferrato, Mariotti, 1983

II
Students attending the course: lecture notes, Miscellany of articles taken from the national journal "Medieval Archaeology," which will be presented .

Non-attending students: In addition to the texts for attending:
A. AUGENTI, Archeologia dell'Italia Medievale, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2016 (limited to the chapters that will be mentioned later.

ARCHEOL0GIA E STORIA DELL'ARTE CRISTIANA (6 CFU)

Per la preparazione dell’esame orale si consiglia lo studio sui seguenti testi:
-TESTINI P., Archeologia Cristiana,Bari, Edipuglia, 1980 (seconda edizione), pp. 1-162, 317-326, 547-671
- Temi di Iconografia paleocristiana, cura e introduzione di F. Bisconti, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000, Introduzione pp. 13-86 + 10 voci a scelta.
- Voci scelte dal Dizionario patristico e di Antichità cristiane, Casale Monferrato, Mariotti, 1983.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

I
Lectures, seminars, fieldwork training

II
Students will participate in workshops on medieval finds, in activities of Biddas-Museum of Deserted Villages of Sardinia (Sorso, Baron's Palace) and in excavations of Mesumundu (Siligo), Bisarcio (Ozieri), of the palace of the Judicial Ardara, Chiaramonti (monastery and the village of Orria Pithinna and any missions abroad.

Contacts/More Information

I
Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students:french
Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language: french

II
Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students: english,french,spanish
Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language:english,french,spanish

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