LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY 1

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2013/2014

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ARCHAEOLOGY

Disciplinary Sector:

Christian and Mediaeval Archeology

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SPANU Pier Giorgio Ignazio

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

A good knowledge on Imperial Rome and Early Middle Ages history is required.

AF code:

A000093

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

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

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

Understanding of cultural developments from Late Antiquity to Medieval times, with a specific focus on issues related to the archaeology of production and trade routes, settlement dynamics, landscape evolution; ability to analyse differentiated research sources in order to arrive to a historical reconstruction with specific focus on Late Antiquity and Medieval times; acquire methodological competences in the analysis of the material culture from the 3rd to the 11th century A.D.

Contents

Historical background from Late Antiquity to Medieval times
The question of Late Antiquity
Medieval chronological subdivision
The city between Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
Christianization of the city: Rome's case study

Recommended Bibliography

- GURT ESPARRAGUERA, J. GUYON, Topografia della Civitas Christiana tra IV e VI sec., in Early Medieval Towns in the Western Mediterranean. Atti del Convegno di Studi (Ravello, 22-24 September 1994), Mantova 1996, pp. 17-41.
- G. CANTINO WATAGHIN, La "Civitas christiana". Urbanistica delle città italiane fra Tarda Antichità e Altomedioevo, a cura di P. DEMEGLIO e CH. LAMBERT, Torino 1992, 7-42.
- P. DELOGU, Solium Imperii-Urbs ecclesiae. Roma fra la Tarda Antichità e l’Alto Medioevo, in Sedes regiae (ann. 400-800), G. RIPOLL, J.M. GURT eds., Barcelona 2000, pp. 83-107.
- V. FIOCCHI NICOLAI, Strutture funerarie ed edifici di culto paleocristiani di Roma dal IV al VI secolo, Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, Città del Vaticano 2001.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, seminars, fieldwork training

Contacts/More Information

Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language: franch

Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students: french

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