MEDIEVAL HISTORY
cod. 1004264

Academic year 2012/13
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Storia medievale (M-STO/01)
Field
Storia, filosofia, psicologia, pedagogia, antropologia e geografia
Type of training activity
Basic
36 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

During the first lessons the student will learn the events and the main issues of medieval history and in particular:
- The political and social development of the European world since the fall of the Roman Empire to the discovery of America;
- The relationships between political and ecclesiastical institutions;
- The specificity of the Italian middle ages;
- The economic, cultural and technical growth of the West;
- The comparisons between western, byzantine and arabic civilizations.
In the second part of the course the student will address the following issues of the Byzantine Empire:
- The political ideology:
- The territorial changes;
- The growing gap between Byzantium and the Latin West

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of medieval history.

Course unit content

Medieval Europe. The Byzantine empire and its relations with the Western world

Full programme

Additional tests will be given during the lectures

Bibliography

M. Montanari, Storia medievale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006
S. Ronchey, Lo stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002

Teaching methods

Lessons

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral and written

Other information

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