Learning about the main tools to understand a range of methodological issues current in the historiography of medieval Europe, especially the definition of medieval studies as a field of inquiry and the chronological limits of this periodization.
Acquiring knowledge about most important events, issues and problems of Early and Late Middle Ages, with particular focus on the religious movements and the intellectual life.
The Middle Ages as an Historiographical Problem.
From the Ancient World to the Medieval Europe: East and West.
Rise and propagation of Islam.
Early Middle Ages.
Late Middle Ages.
Religious movements.
Politics and intellectual life.
- Massimo Montanari, Storia Medievale, Laterza 2006, pp. 279;
- Grado Giovanni Merlo, Il cristianesimo medievale in Occidente, Laterza 2012, pp. 205.
Students will have to choose one of the following books:
- S. Gasparri, C. La Rocca, Tempi barbarici. L’Europa occidentale tra antichità e medioevo (300-900), Carocci 2012, pp. 313.
- F. Senatore, Medioevo: istruzioni per l’uso, Bruno Mondadori 2008, pp. 160.
- C. Azzara, A.M. Rapetti, La Chiesa nel Medioevo Il Mulino 2010, pp. 292.
- P. M. Cobb, La conquista del Paradiso. Una storia islamica delle crociate, Einaudi 2016, pp. 347.
- P. Brown, Il riscatto dell'anima: Aldilà e ricchezza nel primo cristianesimo occidentale, Einaudi 2016, pp. 233.