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MEDIEVAL HISTORY

	0312500238
	DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

	PHILOSOPHY
	2015/2016

PERCORSO COMUNE

	YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2010
	SECONDO SEMESTRE

TEACHING UNITS

	SSD	CFU	HOURS	ACTIVITY	TYPE OF ACTIVITY
	M-STO/02	12	60	LESSONS	SUPPLEMENTARY COMPULSORY SUBJECTS

	Objectives
	THE COURSE IS AIMED PRIMARILY AT PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH GENERAL AND ESSENTIAL COORDINATES FOR THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE INTERPRETATION OF WORLD-HISTORICAL AGE MODERN PHENOMENA. IN THIS SENSE, THE CRITICAL, PERSONAL AND SELECTIVE STUDY OF A VALID MODERN HISTORY MANUAL FOR SCHOOLS IS INDISPENSABLE. PARTICULAR ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO LARGE STRUCTURAL AND LONG PERIODS PHENOMENA, TO POLITICAL-IDEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS CORRENTS, TO INSTITUTIONAL CARACTERS OF STATES AND OF POLITICAL REGIMES, TO POWER POLITICS, TO EPOCH-MAKING CHANGES DERIVING FROM INDUSTRY REVOLUTION AND FRENCH REVOLUTION. STUDENTS HAVE ALSO TO DELVE INTO THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL EVENTS IN SOUTHERN ITALY IN THE CRUCIAL PHASE OF THE FRENCH DECADE 1806-1815.

THE COURSE IS AIMED PRIMARILY AT PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH GENERAL AND ESSENTIAL COORDINATES FOR THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE INTERPRETATION OF WORLD-HISTORICAL AGE MODERN PHENOMENA. IN THIS SENSE, THE CRITICAL, PERSONAL AND SELECTIVE STUDY OF A VALID MODERN HISTORY MANUAL FOR SCHOOLS IS INDISPENSABLE. PARTICULAR ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO LARGE STRUCTURAL AND LONG PERIODS PHENOMENA, TO POLITICAL-IDEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS CORRENTS, TO INSTITUTIONAL CARACTERS OF STATES AND OF POLITICAL REGIMES, TO POWER POLITICS, TO EPOCH-MAKING CHANGES DERIVING FROM INDUSTRY REVOLUTION AND FRENCH REVOLUTION. STUDENTS HAVE ALSO TO DELVE INTO THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL EVENTS IN SOUTHERN ITALY IN THE CRUCIAL PHASE OF THE FRENCH DECADE 1806-1815.

	Prerequisites
	BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN, IN ORDER TO ADDRESS AND STUDY ISSUES OF THE COURSE.

	Contents
	ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING CAPACITY OF HISTORICAL PHENOMENA; INCREASE IN THE CAPACITY OF CRITICAL APPROACH, OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING; HISTORIOGRAPHIC GUIDANCE; DEVELOPMENT OF JUDGMENT AND INTERPRETATION; VERIFICATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF LEARNING ABILITY.

	Teaching Methods
	LESSONS AND THEMATIC ANALYSIS IN THE CLASSROOM

	Verification of learning
	COURSE CONTENT: THE CRISIS OF THE '300; HUMANISM AND THE RENAISSANCE; THE GREAT GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES AND THE FIRST COLONIAL EMPIRES; THE PRICE REVOLUTION; THE MODERN STATE; REFORMATION AND COUNTER REFORMATION; THE CRISIS OF THE '600 AND THE THIRTY YEARS WAR; THE RISE OF HOLLAND AND ENGLAND; ABSOLUTISM AND THE OLD REGIME; THE AGRARIAN REVOLUTION AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION; THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE CRISIS OF THE OLD REGIME.

Verification of learning

COURSE CONTENT:
THE CRISIS OF THE '300; HUMANISM AND THE RENAISSANCE;
THE GREAT GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES AND THE FIRST COLONIAL EMPIRES;
THE PRICE REVOLUTION; THE MODERN STATE; REFORMATION AND COUNTER REFORMATION; THE CRISIS OF THE '600 AND THE THIRTY YEARS WAR; THE RISE OF HOLLAND AND ENGLAND;
ABSOLUTISM AND THE OLD REGIME;
THE AGRARIAN REVOLUTION AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION; THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE CRISIS OF THE OLD REGIME.

	Texts
	F. BARRA, THE MODERN STEEL INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH (FORTHCOMING); 2) M. BELLUCCI, MARIA DE CARDONA. AN ITALIAN-SPANISH NOBLEWOMAN OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN NAPLES, AVELLINO, 2014; 3) ORSOLA TARANTINO FRATERNALI, CARLO GESUALDO, THE ELAH 2015; 4) A. TORTORA, THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS IN 1631, A HISTORY OF THE MODERN AGE, CAROCCI PUBLISHER 2014

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