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B008228 - HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE
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Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2018-19
Coorte 2018 - Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
26/02/2019 ⇒ 07/06/2019
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course Content
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B008228 - STORIA DEL RINASCIMENTO
Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY
B008228 - STORIA DEL RINASCIMENTO
Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Modern History. An advanced study of issues and methods concerning research on European modern history (late 15th - early 19th centuries), through reading and analysis of printed and handwritten sources.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
J. DELUMEAU, La paura in Occidente. Storia della paura nell’età moderna, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2018 (ed. or. Milano, SEI, 1979)
A. BORRELLI, La Repubblica della salute. Storia delle epidemie che hanno colpito la Città di Venezia in età moderna, Firenze, Clinamen, 2010
C. M. CIPOLLA, Contro un nemico invisibile. Epidemie e strutture sanitarie nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Bologna, il Mulino, 2007
G. COSMACINI, Le spade di Damocle. Paure e malattie nella storia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006
S. CUNHA UJVARI, Storia delle epidemie, Bologna, Odoya, 2012
J. DIAMOND, Armi, acciaio e malattie. Breve storia del mondo negli ultimi treicimila anni, trad. it. Torino, Einaudi, 2014
Epidemie e società nel Mediterraneo di età moderna, a cura di G. Restifo, Messina, Siciliano, 2001
J. HATCHER, La morte nera. Storia dell’epidemia che devastò l’Europa del Trecento, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2009
Le epidemie nei secoli XIV-XVII. Atti delle giornate di studio Fisciano (Università degli Studi di Salerno), 13-14 maggio 2005, a cura di A. Leone e G. Sangermano, Salerno, Laveglia & Carlone, 2006
Epidémies et sociétés. Passé, présent et futur, ed. B. Fantini, Pisa, ETS, 2017 («Mefisto» Supplement, 6)
A. MANNO, San Rocco, Venezia e la peste, Venezia, Marsilio, 2015
W. H. MCNEILL, La peste nella storia. Epidemie, morbi e contagio dall’antichità all’età contemporanea, Milano, ResGestae, 2012 (ed. or. Torino, Einaudi, 1982)
Peste: entre épidemies et sociétés - Plague: epidemics and societies, a cura di M. Signoli, D. Chevé, P. Adalian, Pascal, G. Boëtsch, O. Dutour, Firenze, FUP-Firenze Univestiry Press, 2007
P. PRETO, Peste e società a Venezia, 1576, Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 1976
Venezia e la peste 1348-1797. Catalogo della mostra Comune di Venezia, Assessorato alla cultura e belle arti, Venezia, Marsilio, 1979.
A. BORRELLI, La Repubblica della salute. Storia delle epidemie che hanno colpito la Città di Venezia in età moderna, Firenze, Clinamen, 2010
C. M. CIPOLLA, Contro un nemico invisibile. Epidemie e strutture sanitarie nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Bologna, il Mulino, 2007
G. COSMACINI, Le spade di Damocle. Paure e malattie nella storia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006
S. CUNHA UJVARI, Storia delle epidemie, Bologna, Odoya, 2012
J. DIAMOND, Armi, acciaio e malattie. Breve storia del mondo negli ultimi treicimila anni, trad. it. Torino, Einaudi, 2014
Epidemie e società nel Mediterraneo di età moderna, a cura di G. Restifo, Messina, Siciliano, 2001
J. HATCHER, La morte nera. Storia dell’epidemia che devastò l’Europa del Trecento, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2009
Le epidemie nei secoli XIV-XVII. Atti delle giornate di studio Fisciano (Università degli Studi di Salerno), 13-14 maggio 2005, a cura di A. Leone e G. Sangermano, Salerno, Laveglia & Carlone, 2006
Epidémies et sociétés. Passé, présent et futur, ed. B. Fantini, Pisa, ETS, 2017 («Mefisto» Supplement, 6)
A. MANNO, San Rocco, Venezia e la peste, Venezia, Marsilio, 2015
W. H. MCNEILL, La peste nella storia. Epidemie, morbi e contagio dall’antichità all’età contemporanea, Milano, ResGestae, 2012 (ed. or. Torino, Einaudi, 1982)
Peste: entre épidemies et sociétés - Plague: epidemics and societies, a cura di M. Signoli, D. Chevé, P. Adalian, Pascal, G. Boëtsch, O. Dutour, Firenze, FUP-Firenze Univestiry Press, 2007
P. PRETO, Peste e società a Venezia, 1576, Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 1976
Venezia e la peste 1348-1797. Catalogo della mostra Comune di Venezia, Assessorato alla cultura e belle arti, Venezia, Marsilio, 1979.
Learning Objectives
During the course, consisting in the attentive reading of historical texts, the student will be offered the opportunity for leading (under the teachers’s supervision) a personal research-work, which can give him the sense of practising an historical research, and so to test his personal attitudes and the notions and methods he has learned during the course itself.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
lectures; seminars
Type of Assessment
Oral presentation; written paper; oral discussion.
After an oral presentation at the end of the course, the student will compose a paper of approximately 20.000 characters., filled with notes and general bibliography.
The teacher will evaluate the degree of coherence of the text with the chosen theme; the correct use of critical apparatus; the general degree of critical analysis.
A final oral discussion will be helpful to comprehend eventual teacher's suggestions. The final degree will be the average of the results obtained during these three steps.
After an oral presentation at the end of the course, the student will compose a paper of approximately 20.000 characters., filled with notes and general bibliography.
The teacher will evaluate the degree of coherence of the text with the chosen theme; the correct use of critical apparatus; the general degree of critical analysis.
A final oral discussion will be helpful to comprehend eventual teacher's suggestions. The final degree will be the average of the results obtained during these three steps.
Course program
COURSE TITLE
A Trilogy of Fear: I: Contamination
The 2018-2019 course will be the first of three devoted to the theme of "Fear", dealing with the main objects of fear in Renaissance Europe. After an indtroductory definition of themes, concepts and terms for deifining Fear in early modern Europe and a critical discussion of the works by Jean Delumeau, the theme of plagues ad contamination will be analyzed fist with an history-of-medicine, then with a cultural-history approach
A Trilogy of Fear: I: Contamination
The 2018-2019 course will be the first of three devoted to the theme of "Fear", dealing with the main objects of fear in Renaissance Europe. After an indtroductory definition of themes, concepts and terms for deifining Fear in early modern Europe and a critical discussion of the works by Jean Delumeau, the theme of plagues ad contamination will be analyzed fist with an history-of-medicine, then with a cultural-history approach