ARCHEOLOGIA TARDO-ANTICA

The course aims to provide an overview of historical and archaeological issues relating to Late Antiquity (III-VII century), to read the transformation of the city in Sicily (from polis to madina).

The course aims to provide an advanced knowledge on the monumental contexts, the architectural heritage, the themes of figurative arts and documents of material cultural related to the Mediterranean world in the Late Antiquity and Middle Ages, with reference to the evaluation of historical , cultural and artistic results in relation to the development and organization of the Christian communities and the transformation phenomena from the Late Aniquity. There will be seminars, guided tours in the catacombs of Syracuse and in the main buildings of Christian and Medieval Catania. In addition, one workshop will be held, regarding the corpus of Christian symbols in the epigraphical documentation.

In particular, the system of late roman villae and summary of the transformation of society, economy, rural and urban settlements in Italy and in Europe in the Late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages. Sicily: city and country (forms of settlements, cemeteries, churches and monasteries).

• Storia di Roma III. L’età tardo antica, 2. I luoghi e le culture, Torino 1993, pp. 41-83, 93-174
• Aurea Roma. Dalla città pagana alla città cristiana (edd. S. Ensoli e E. La Rocca), Roma 2000, pp. 30-48, 91-112, 116-167.
• A. Augenti, Archeologia dell’Italia medievale, Roma-Bari 2016, passim.
• C. Sfamemi, Ville residenziali nell’Italia tardo antica, Bari 2006, pp. 9-241.
• G. P. Brogiolo, A. Chavarrìa Arnau, Aristocrazia e campagne nell’Occidente da Costantino a Carlo Magno, Firenze 2005, pp. 7- 87.
• G. Volpe, Paesaggi e insediamenti rurali dell’Apulia tardoantica e altomedievale, in Atti del Primo Seminario sul Tardoantico e l’Altomedioevo in Italia meridionale (Foggia, 12-14 febbraio 2004), Bari 2005, pp. 299-314.
• M. Sgarlata, L’architettura sacra e funeraria tra città e territorio nella Sicilia sud-orientale, in Di abitato in abitato. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Ragusa-Catania, 3-5 aprile 2003), Pisa-Roma 2005, pp. 63-96.
• R. Lizzi, I vescovi e i potentes della terra: definizione e limite del ruolo episcopale nelle due partes Imperii fra IV e V secolo d.C., in L’Eveque dans la cité du IVe au Ve siècle. Image et autorité (Actes de la table ronde), Rome 1998, pp. 81-104.
• M. Sgarlata, Pro sua devotione. Le pulsioni autonomistiche dell’evergetismo monumentale cristiano nella Sicilia orientale, in Studia humanitatis. Saggi in onore di Roberto Osculati, Roma 2011, pp. 135-151.

Additional bibliography will be provided during the course.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.