MEDIEVAL HISTORY

M-STO/01 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

TERESA SARDELLA


Learning Objectives

Deepening main methodological and historiographic issues.

Deepening political, philosophical and cultural items, connecting to religious issues, fundamental in Medieval History.


Course Structure

- Lessons

- Seminars



Detailed Course Content

Module A (2 ECTF):

A Historiographical Problem: Middle Ages or Late Antiquity?

Module B (3 ECTF):

From Ancient World to Late Antiquity and Medieval World: religion between policy and culture (Orient and Occident).

Module C (1 ECTF):

Empire and Papacy: power rituals between conflict and continuity.



Textbook Information

Module A:

- M. Bloch, Apologia della Storia o Mestiere di storico, Torino, Einaudi, 1998 («La redazione definitiva», pp. 5-143, senza omettere la lettura della Prefazione di Jacques Le Goff e della Premessa di Étienne Bloch);

- T. Sardella, La fine del mondo antico e il problema storiografico della Tarda Antichità, in 'Chaos e Kosmos' 14, 2013, pp. 1-40 (www.chaosekosmos.it).

Module B:

- M. Benedetti (a cura di), Il cristianesimo. Età medievale (VIII-XV secc.), ed. Carocci, Roma 2015, pp. 1-443.

- T. Sardella, Il cristianesimo in Occidente dalla fine dell’Impero ai regni romano-barbarici, in Storia del Cristianesimo, I, L’età antica (secc. I-VII), a cura di E. Prinzivalli, ed. Carocci, Roma 2015, pp. 329-358.

 

Module C:

- A. Paravicini Bagliani, Morte ed elezione del papa: norme, riti e conflitti, ed. Viella, Roma 2013, pp. 317.

It’s possible we'll have coordination about some items with Christian Archeology and Medieval Art History.

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




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