HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- MATTEO PROVASI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- M-STO/02
Training objectives
- Knowledge. The course will provide detailed knowledge on the following subjects:
- the main reasons of Europe's historical evolution in the modern age through the relationship with other cultures.
- the main characteristics of european colonialism and the most relevant historical studies on it; analyzed through geographical, economical, political, religious and cultural concepts.
Skills. Be able to:
- Identify and interpret the Renaissance values on which the european civilization is based.
- In a diachronic perspective, analyze the dynamic and mutual interaction with other civilizations, especially the ancient islamic world, the Jewish world and the new american world. Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- - Methodological themes: an overview on historiography and the developement of the idea of europe.
- Europe in the Renaissance: the political context, diplomacy, First and Second Italian Wars, the clashes against the turks, religious wars, relationships with the Jewish.
- Discovering new worlds: geographical discoveries, colonialism models, slavery.
- Text analysis. Didactic methods
- Lessons uploaded on platform (2 or 3 every week).
Deepening meeting live (every Thursday, 10.15-11.45 am, Polo degli Adelardi). Learning assessment procedures
- Oral test: Check of aware of the content of the books in bibliography and of skill to analyze documents examined during the lectures.
Written test (only first exam session, January 2021): Check of aware of the content of the books in bibliography and of skill to analyze documents examined during the lectures. Reference texts
- The exam has to be prepared on the following books.
1. Europe and New World
- D. Abulafia, La scoperta dell’umanità. Incontri atlantici nell’età di Colombo, il Mulino, Bologna 2010, pp. 454.
Choose among:
- M. Donattini, Dal Nuovo Mondo all’America. Scoperte geografiche e colonialismo (secoli XV-XVI), Carocci, Roma 2004
- L.A. Lindsay, Il commercio degli schiavi, il Mulino, Bologna 2011, pp. 186.
2. Others Worlds in Europe
- A. Tallon, L’Europa del Cinquecento. Stati e relazioni internazionali, Carocci, Roma 2013, pp. 317.
Choose among:
- G. Ricci, Appello al turco. I confini infranti del Rinascimento, Viella, Roma 2011, pp. 182.
- M. Caffiero, Storia degli ebrei nell’Italia moderna. Dal Rinascimento alla Restaurazione, Carocci, Roma 2014, pp. 256.
