MEDIEVAL HISTORY
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- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- BEATRICE SALETTI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- M-STO/01
Training objectives
- The aims of the course are to make the student aware of the complexity of historical research, its methods and its purposes, and to offer clear temporal and spatial coordinates regarding the events of European history from the sixth to the fifteenth century, with particular attention to the italian 'Comune's' institutions and to the history of Ferrara.
Prerequisites
- none
Course programme
- 1 Italian political institutions, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages
2 the Italian Comune: regional variations, functions, offices
3 relationships between city and country, city and empire
4 the uniqueness of the Ferrara case Didactic methods
- Lessons. The lessons will be accompanied, sometimes, by texts: historical documents, or scholars' essays. The material used will be placed entirely among the course teaching materials, online.
Learning assessment procedures
- Written test with open answer preparatory for a brief oral interview: 15-question questionnaire, to be filled out with short answers in 75 minutes.
AT LEAST 7 DAYS BEFORE THE EXAM THE STUDENT MUST NOTIFY THE TEACHER THE TITLE OF THE VOLUME HE/SHE HAS CHOSEN, TO CONFIRM THAT THE TEXT IS DEEMED ADEQUATE. Reference texts
- REFERENCE TEXTS means COMPULSORY MATERIAL TO CARRY OUT THE EXAMINATION
- the chapters: I (The idea of the Middle Ages), II (The late ancient world), IV (From the Western Empire to the Germanic kingdoms), VI (Byzantium: the eastern Roman state), VII (The Franks and the Carolingian Europe), X (Lords, castles, fiefdoms), XIV (Cities and municipalities), XVI (Projects of universalistic supremacy), XXII (At the origins of ancient Italy) of the 'Storia Medievale' manual, Donzelli, ed. 1998 or 2011.
- A volume of your choice, to be agreed with the teacher. Suggested texts (SUGGESTED ONLY) as volumes of your choice:
Andrea Castagnetti, Enti ecclesiastici, Canossa, estensi, famiglie signorili e vassallatiche a Verona e a Ferrara, Roma, Ecole francaise, 1980.
Andrea Castagnetti, Società e politica a Ferrara dall'età postcarolingia alla Signoria estense: secoli X-XIII, Bologna, Patron, 1985.
Trevor Dean, Terra e potere a Ferrara nel tardo Medioevo: il dominio estense: 1350-1450, Modena, Deputazione di storia patria per le antiche province modenesi, 1990.
J. C. Maire Vigueur, Cavalieri e cittadini: guerra, conflitti e società nell'Italia comunale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010.
