EARLY MODERN HISTORY
cod. 13094

Academic year 2016/17
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Storia moderna (M-STO/02)
Field
Discipline letterarie, linguistiche e storiche
Type of training activity
Basic
60 hours
of face-to-face activities
12 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

The course is designed to:
• provide a structured introduction to the study of modern European history
• develop awareness and understanding of historical processes, such as continuity and change, comparative perspectives and the investigation of historical problems
• provide the methodology required to interpret historical evidence
• equip students to evaluate and interpret historical evidence critically
• promote interest in the concept and discipline of history and its specialisms
• enable students to develop the analytical and communication skills needed to present historical argument orally

Prerequisites

Students must possess linguistic skills in order to conceptualise problems and issues in the appropriate manner by setting up in their expositions hierarchy of values and priorities.

Course unit content

This course offers a broad survey of modern European history from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic wars. It is designed to introduce students to key issues and scholarly debates in the political, religious, social and cultural history as they played out on a local and on a global scale: the Renaissance, the epochal expansion of Europe into the new world, the break-up of Latin Christianity into the competing religious communities, the construction of the modern state, the formation of overseas empires and the coming of capitalism, the Scientific Revolution, the French Revolution.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Modulo A - FREQUENTANTI e NON FREQUENTANTI (6 cfu)

1)Aurelio Musi, Le vie della modernità, Milano, Sansoni, da utilizzare obbligatoriamente insieme con un atlante storico
2) Un libro a scelta tra i seguenti:
a) Elena Bonora, La Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza
b) Lodovica Braida, Stampa e cultura in Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza
c) Corrado Vivanti, Le guerer di religione nel Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
d) Piero Del Negro, Guerra ed eserciti da Machiavelli a Napoleone, Roma-Bari, Laterza
e) Guido Abbattista, La rivoluzione americana, Roma-Bari, Laterza
f) D. Outram, L'Illuminismo, Bologna, il Mulino

Modulo A+B – FREQUENTANTI e NON FREQUENTANTI (12cfu)
1) Manuale:
Aurelio Musi, Le vie della modernità, Milano, Sansoni, da utilizzare obbligatoriamente insieme con un atlante storico
oltre al manuale si deve scegliere tra il PERCORSO 2) e il PERCORSO 3)
2) PERCORSO 2
a) Elena Bonora, Giudicare i vescovi. La definizione dei poteri nella Chiesa postridentina, Roma-Bari, Laterza
b) Elena Bonora, La Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza
oppure
3) PERCORSO 3
a) Timothy Brook, Il cappello di Vermeer. Il Seicento e la nascita del mondo globalizzato, Torino, Einaudi, 2015
b) G.J. Ames, L'età delle scoperte geografiche 1500-1700, Bologna, il Mulino

Teaching methods

Students are required to attend seminars, to participate in class activities, to complete assigned tasks, and to make class presentations.

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral by examination and during the lessons

Other information

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