The extended program of the course foresees the study of the following
topics:
The history of the Adriatic;
Economic, social, political and cultural relations between the countries
that border on the western and eastern shores in the context of the
centuries-long life of the Mediterranean;
The reconstruction of the long history of the Mediterranean geo-historic
space, center of irradiation and the cradle of ancient cultures and
religions, characterized by exchanges and mingling, meetings and
clashes, starting from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (1453);
The "triumph" of Christianity in the Battle of Lepanto (October 7, 1571),
the western propaganda of Philip II. Imperial Spain and the
Mediterranean;
Formation and evolution of the modern state in the western
Mediterranean;
The apogee of the "sublime Porta" in the 16thcentury;
The political, economic and social organization of the Ottoman Turkish
imperial system; the Timar; the sultan and the formation of the ruling
class; relations with the subjugated populations;
The characters of Mediterranean feudalism;
The Mediterranean divided;
The Mediterranean in the 18thcentury;
Colonial expansion in the Mediterranean;
The Mediterranean and the long process of European decolonization;
The birth of Israel and the Palestinian question; The Maghreb; The "Arab
Springs". The Muslim world and the clash of civilizations.
The perspectives of the Mediterranean.
Deepening of important historical and geopolitical issues of the
Mediterranean and the Adriatic.