The course will provide the basic knowledge and competences to understand the anthropological, socioeconomic, religious, and cultural characters of the early modern world, by adopting, a global approach. Moreover, by analyzing some secondary sources, we will obtain the basis to develop bibliographical research and to prepare written texts in the context of the historical studies.
Course Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lectures with slides, which will be available on the e-learning page of this class. The students will participate actively on some specific moments of the lectures and by writing a short essay (optional, see the section "Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento").
Assessment Methods
Attending students: -Evaluation of the "Saggio di Approfondimento" integrated with a written exam. Non-attending students: - Written exam. The written exam, which includes both closed and open questions, is designed to test knowledge of the topics covered during the course or addressed in the exam's bibliography.
Texts
Attending students: 1) Slides and lectures notes, integrated by the study of the book M. Bellabarba, V. Lavenia (a cura di), Introduzione alla storia moderna, il Mulino, Bologna 2023 (second edition); 2) Materials provided by the professor in order to prepare the "saggio di approfondimento" (for more details, see the e-learning page of this course).
Non-attending students: 1) M. Bellabarba, V. Lavenia (a cura di), Introduzione alla storia moderna, il Mulino, Bologna 2023 (seconda edizione); 2) F. Motta, S. Pavone, Lessico della storia moderna. Concetti, processi, spazi, Carocci, Roma 2024.
Contents
During classes, we will reconstruct the main stages of the history of the 16th-18th centuries, by focusing on key moments and spaces. At the same time, we will focus on some questions, essential to understand the anthropological, religious, cultural, environmental, and socioeconomic characters of the modernity. We will pay attention also to non-European countries and to the most innovative themes and problems of the recent historiographical debate (for more details, see the e-learning page of this course).
