MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

MM04622

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2020/2021

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in CULTURAL HERITAGE

Disciplinary Sector:

Mediaeval History

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PACIOCCO Roberto

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

162

Prerequisites:

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Objectives

MODULE 1.
Knowledge of the main aspects and the related chronology of the Middle Ages, with particular reference to subjects with institutional relevance for the European and, above all, the Italian history. The frontal lessons aim to allow a profitable understanding of the textbooks recommended for the exam and to facilitate a deeper understanding of institutional topics.
MODULE 2. Suitable for the three years degrees students acquaintance with the ability to orient oneself on the research methods concerning the medieval sources and the medieval history.

Contents

MODULE 1 (6 cfu). Medieval history prominent topics.
MODULE 2 (3 cfu). Suitable introduction for the three years degrees students to research methods and bibliographical instruments related to the medieval history.

Extended Syllabus

MODULE 1. Introduction to the Middle Ages and medieval historiography; civil, canon and common law in medieval history; the monarchies, the emperor, the pope and the papacy; fief and “feudalism”; heresy; monasticism and religious orders. Other subjects of particular importance: the Reform of the Church, the Investitures (11th-12th century). The Kingdom of Sicily and the "Patrimonium beati Petri"; the “Marsia”. During the lectures reading and commenting historiographical text and legal sources is scheduled.
MODULE 2. Introduction to sanctity, papacy and religious orders in the Middle Ages; reading and analysis of papal letters and legislative sources concerning the attempted canonization of Ambrogio da Massa.

Recommended Bibliography

MODULE 1.
A) Students can choose one of the following three textbooks:
- G. VITOLO, Medioevo. I caratteri originali di un’età di transizione, Firenze, Sansoni.
- A. CORTONESI, Il Medioevo. Profilo di un millennio, Roma, Carocci.
- A. ZORZI, Manuale di storia medievale, Torino UTET.
B) R. PACIOCCO, Medioevo. Un sussidio per temi e concetti, Torino, Accademia University Press (free ebook downloadable from various websites, eg: www.academia.edu; www.amazon.it; www.aaccademia.it). C) Students who do not attend lectures must study the following book, too: P. CAMMAROSANO, Italia medievale. Struttura e geografia delle fonti scritte, Roma, Carocci.
MODULE 2.
– R. PACIOCCO, “Originalia penes scriptores remaneant”. Il processo orvietano per la canonizzazione di Ambrogio da Massa (1240-1241), in Studi medievali 58 (2017), pp. 93-129.
– R. PACIOCCO, Le canonizzazioni papali nei secoli XII e XIII. Evidenze a proposito di “centro” romano, vita religiosa e “periferie” ecclesiastiche, in Die Ordnung der Kommunikation und die Kommunikation der Ordnung im Mittelalterlichen Europa, 2: Zentralität: Papsttum und Orden im Europa des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts, hg. v. C. ANDENNA, G. BLENNEMANN, K. HERBERS, G. MELVILLE, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2013 (Aurora. Schriften der Villa Vigoni), pp. 277-299 (free paper downloadable from www.academia.edu).
– Students who do not attend lectures must study the following book, too: S. BOESCH GAJANO, La santità, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons with slides in order to improve learning.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination to scrutiny regarding correct exposition and right understanding about the topics dealt during the course. Exam assessments are graded out of thirty.

Contacts/More Information

Frontal lessons will take place intensively for six hours a week; any absence of the lecturer due to cultural and academic commitments will be communicated in advance to students. Non-attending students are warmly recommended to contact the professor personally and not only by e-mail.

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