CHRISTIAN ARCHEOLOGY

General Module

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2013/2014

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in SCIENZE DEI BENI CULTURALI

Disciplinary Sector:

Christian and Mediaeval Archeology

Is part of:

CHRISTIAN AND MEDIEVAL ARCHEOLOGY

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SPANU Pier Giorgio Ignazio

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

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

AF code:

40001288

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

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.

Contents

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

Recommended Bibliography

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

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