The course will provide the basic knowledge and competences to understand the anthropological, social, economic, religious, and cultural characters of the early modern West and their evolution to the contemporaneity. We will pay specifical attention to the periodization and, by analyzing some secondary sources, we will obtain the basis to develop a bibliographical research in the context of the historical studies. In particular, we will focus on the development some of the main European countries (Italy, France, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, England), on the formation of their identity and their relations with non-European civilizations.
Course Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lectures with slides, which will be available on the KIRO 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
Atteding students: -Evaluation of the "Saggio di Approfondimento" integrated with a short oral exam. Non-attending students: - Oral exam The oral exam will test the knowledge of the topics presented during the classes or addressed in the exam's bibliography.
Texts
Attending Students: 1) Slides and lectures notes, if necessary integrated by Carlo Capra, Storia Moderna (1492-1848), Le Monnier, Firenze 2021 (up until the chapter "La Francia e l'Europa nell'età napoleonica" included); 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) Carlo Capra, Storia Moderna (1492-1848), Le Monnier, Firenze, sino al Congresso di Vienna (up until the chapter "La Francia e l'Europa nell'età napoleonica" included).
Contents
We will focus on the state building process of the early modern period in the main western European countries and in their relationships with the rest of the world. We will particullarly focus on the main economic, political, and social trajectories of Europe from the geographical explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries until the Congress of Vienna (1815).
