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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Objectives
Contents (A) The medieval millennium: (B) sources (with special reference to the use of Heraldry as a historical source) and historiography
Extended Syllabus - Terminology and periodization
- The most important collections of Medieval sources
- The Roman-Germanic kingdoms (5th-6th centuries)
- New political frameworks: the Lombard kingdom (6th-8th centuries)
- From the Frankish Kingdom to the Carolingian Empire (6th-9th centuries)
- Historiographic production in the early Middle Ages (56th-10th centuries)
-The Byzantine Mediterranean (7th-8th centuries)
- The 9th-11th centuries
- Church reform and ecclesiastical institutions between the 11th and 12th centuries
- The Papacy, Mendicant Orders and the Crisis of the Church (1215-1378)
- Heraldry and history
Recommended Bibliography Students can choose one of the following textbooks:
(A) - G. Vitolo, Medioevo. I caratteri originali di un’età di transizione, Firenze, Sansoni
- G. Albertoni, S.M. Collavini, T. Lazzari, Introduzione alla storia medievale, Bologna, il Mulino, Nuova Edizione 2020 (the book is also online https://www.pandoracampus.it/subject/storia )
(B) Luigi Pellegrini, Abruzzo Medievale. Raccolta di studi, Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo, Roma 2021 (Fonti e studi dell’Italia Mediana, 1)
P. Cammarosano, Italia medievale. Struttura e geografia delle fonti scritte, Roma Carocci Editore, ristampa 200911 (Studi superiori NIS, 109, Storia, poi Università, Storia, 202)
Matteo Ferrari, L'arme segreta. Araldica e storia dell'arte nel Medioevo (secoli XIII-XV), Firenze 2015
If you have doubts about terminology and historical and geographical data, we strongly recommend consulting the following dictionaries:
Enciclopedia del Medioevo, Le Garzantine, Milano: Garzanti, 2007
A. Barbero, C. Frugoni, Dizionario del Medioevo, Roma-Bari: Laterza 1994
Non-attending students will be able to have the support of the teacher for an updated manual study. Compared to the program reserved for attending students, non-attending students will have to study:
S. Gasparri, Voci dai secoli oscuri. Un percorso nelle fonti dell’alto medioevo, Roma, Carocci, 2017
Teaching Methods The course will be held in the presence in the second semester. Students who are unable to attend lessons in person will be guaranteed the possibility of replacing their attendance of lessons in person with the study of the volume indicated above (in addition to the compulsory ones for all), for which the lecturer guarantees support in studying and preparing for the exam through online meetings (the dates will be communicated in the teaching notices)
For students with disabilities and/or with DSA, it is advisable to contact the competent office
(https://www.unich.it/sites/default/files/carta_dei_servizi_0.pdf ).
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Knowledge and abilities will be verified through a question/answer oral exam. The competence will be judged appropriate (with a vote based on a 30 points scale) if the student
- will show to have clearly learnt the fundamental frames of medieval history;
- will show explaining ability and conscious use of the suitable lexicon;
- will demonstrate knowledge and ability to use the tools for historical research.
The grading scale ranges from 1 to 30 with honors (cum laude):
1-17 fail
18-21 sufficient
22-24 fair
25-27 good
28-29 very good
30-30 with honors (cum laude) excellent.
The examination methods for students with disabilities and / or with Learning disability must be agreed with the teacher, in agreement with the competent Office. (https://www.unich.it/sites/default/files/carta_dei_servizi_0.pdf ).
Contacts/More Information Although not mandatory, students are warmly invited to attend the classes.
You may also be interested in:
Medieval philology
History of bizantine
Latin palaeography.
International or incoming Erasmus students are invited to promptly contact the teacher in charge of the course to agree on the exam program, possibly in English.