Course teached as: B004411 - STORIA POLITICA E ISTITUZIONALE DEL MEDIOEVO Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course offers students a thorough knowledge of a monographic topic of political history medieval, pointing to the acquisition of starting skills in the analysis of written sources and of the main historiographical interpretations.
The bibliography for the examination will be listed by the teacher at the beginning of the course.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide the necessary knowledge to allow the student to achieve the knowledge of political and institutional history of Middle ages through the study of one of its most significant topics: the Italian city-states.
Prerequisites
The student must have a general knowledge of the Middle Ages. It also would be better that he had attended a course in medieval history.
Teaching Methods
Lectures and recurring seminars on historical sources.
Further information
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Type of Assessment
Seminars during the course, oral examination at the end of the course.
Course program
The course will focus in particular on the history of political systems in the Italian city-states (11th-13th centuries). It Will be analyzed the urban political space and its various components (episcopal, communal and seigneurial powers), with particular reference to the analysis of elites, conflicts for power and institutional configurations.