EARLY MODERN HISTORY I
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- MATTEO PROVASI
- Credits
- 12
- Curriculum
- LETTERATURA, LINGUA, STORIA E SPETTACOLO
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- M-STO/02
Training objectives
- Knowledges: knowledge of an outline of early modern history, since mid-15th century through Napoleon's age, with a focus on a special subject.
Skills: be able to identify and interpret main themes of the modern history, understanding origins and development of present wordwide society. Prerequisites
- None.
The student is supposed to have a very general knowledge of early modern history through high school syllabus, but in the lectures this is non taken for granted. Course programme
- GENERAL MODERN HISTORY (50 hours of lectures)
Methodological themes: history of historiography; cronology; interpretative paradigms.
Themes end contets: The Renaissance and Italian Wars; European worldwide expansion; The Reformation and religious change in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries; The wars of religion; The making of nation states; Cultural changes in the 18th century; Tha age of revolutions. Napoleon''s rise and fall.
SPECIAL SUBJECT (10 hours of lectures)
Jews in modern Italy.
Text analysis. Didactic methods
- Lectures, sometimes with aid of audiovisuals.
The method of delivering the lectures will be indicated later in relation to the COVID-19 emergency situation.
All lessons will be recorded and uploaded to a specific classroom. Learning assessment procedures
- Check of aware of the content of the textbook and of skill to analyze the book regarding special subject.
Written examination - General history: 16 questions multiple choice about early modern history - Special subject (oral too): 2 questions about book in bibliography. Reference texts
- General history: Aurelio Musi, Un vivaio di storia. L’Europa nel mondo moderno, Milano, Biblion, 2020
Special subject: Marina Caffiero, Storia degli ebrei nell’Italia moderna, Roma, Carocci, 2014
