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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Students who intend to take the Course should have a good general knowledge of the most significant, periodizing facts of the general history of modern Europe.
Objectives Contents The main objective of the Course is to outline the characteristics, methods of implementation and management of the complex feudal system present in the modern Mezzogiorno, as a peculiar expression of European feudalism and, in particular, its Mediterranean form.
For students attending the Course the program of study includes the history of legal, political-administrative and economic-productive dynamics of feudalism in the "provinces" of the Kingdom of Naples, in particular that of Molise and Abruzzo during the modern age. Historiographic studies are planned.
Non-attending students will have to add to their program of study a consideration of southern feudalism in the modern age and an in-depth study of some significant socio-economic and political-institutional topics related to the history of the Kingdom of Naples in the seventeenth century, where feudal baronage was of strategic importance and fundamental in the social and political dynamics of the Kingdom of Naples, due to the implementation of the compromises of the so-called "Neapolitan path to the modern State" sanctioned by Charles V during the sixteenth century. The Kingdom was then subject to the control of the Spanish sovereign Phillip IV, of the Habsburg dynasty and was part of the Italian subsystem and of the broader Spanish imperial system.
Extended Syllabus For students who attend lessons the program of study includes:
Mediterranean feudalism; feudal geography; the regime of lands and men; possession and governance of the territories; the functions delegated by the sovereign; the income of the landlords; feudal jurisdiction and the capitalization of statutory rights; sovereignty and political power; the feudal city and city director; fiefdom and local powers; territory and settlements; transhumance; the Albanian communities and the southern feudal regime; the feudal sources used by historiography.
For those students who do not attend the lessons in addition to the program of study outlined above they must also undertake a careful study of :
Recommended Bibliography Reading materials:
Additional materials to be carried out by NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Teaching Methods The Course consists of 8 ECTS corresponding to 48 hours of frontal activity carried out in the first semester and divided into 2 weekly lessons of 2 hours each in line with the academic calendar.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The assessment of the level of acquisition achieved by students will be done through an oral exam to be given at the end of the Course. The exam will be based on the contents of the study program and aimed at ascertaining the degree of preparation achieved by the students, their ability to critically analyze the topics covered; their level of discursive organization, the quality and effectiveness of their acquisition, the level of coherence they have reached in describing events and historical phenomena together with corresponding chronological coincidence.
Contacts/More Information Attendance at lessons is optional.
During the scheduled office hours, students will have the opportunity to receive further clarifications, both on merit and method, on the nature and the training objectives of the Course.
