501042 - MODERN HISTORY - A

courses

ID:

501042

Duration (hours):

36

CFU:

SSD:

STORIA MODERNA

Located in:

CREMONA

Year:

2025

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (29/09/2025 - 23/01/2026)

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, the student acquires general knowledge of the themes and problems related to the Early Modern age (mid-fifteenth - early nineteenth century), as well as the awareness of the periodization criteria. He/she has particular knowledge of a broad internal theme of the early modern age, also in relation to the historiographical debate and the diversity and multiplicity of original sources. He is able to recognize the complexity of each historiographic construction by analyzing historical documents and authors and is able to frame the main historical problems according to the development of the historiographical debate.

Course Prerequisites

Ability to understand, analyze and synthesise a complex argumentative text; basic knowledge of general geography.

Teaching Methods

The course includes 36 hours of lectures and 6 hours of exercises to deepen some of the topics covered in the lessons. The lessons will benefit from the support of PowerPoint presentations available on the KIRO platform after the exhibition of each thematic unit for a limited time. Participation in visits or seminars is considered an integral part of the teaching activity of the course.

Assessment Methods

FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS. The exam will be divided into a written test (questions with open and closed answers). In the written test, a series of closed and open questions will be assigned to examine the knowledge of events and characters from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, the ability to place them in a logical chronological arc and to argue critically, expressive mastery and specific language (knowledge of the manual). The test is considered passed with the achievement of sufficiency (18/30). FOR NON-ATTENDENT STUDENTS. The exam will be divided into a written test (questions with open and closed answers) where knowledge of the manual and a methodology reading will be examined. Students are invited to agree in time with the teacher by email on the choice of readings.

Texts

FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS. The study of the materials offered during the lessons must be supplemented by the knowledge of a university manual of your choice between: • V. FERRONE - F. MOTTA, L'età dell'oro e del ferro. Una storia del mondo moderno, Torino, Einaudi, 2023 • V. CRISCUOLO, Storia moderna, Bologna, Pearson, 2019; • G. RICUPERATI – F. IEVA, Manuale di storia moderna, Novara, Utet, 2012 • C. CAPRA, Storia moderna (1492-1848), Firenze, Le Monnier (qualsiasi edizione). • A. MUSI, Le vie della modernità, Milano, Sansoni, 2000. • M. ROSA, M. VERGA, Storia dell'Età moderna. 1450-1815, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1998. FOR NON-ATTENTIVE STUDENTS: Knowledge is required 1) a university manual to choose from: • V. FERRONE - F. MOTTA, L'età dell'oro e del ferro. Una storia del mondo moderno, Torino, Einaudi, 2023 • V. CRISCUOLO, Storia moderna, Bologna, Pearson, 2019; • G. RICUPERATI – F. IEVA, Manuale di storia moderna, Novara, Utet, 2012 • C. CAPRA, Storia moderna (1492-1848), Firenze, Le Monnier (qualsiasi edizione). • A. MUSI, Le vie della modernità, Milano, Sansoni, 2000. • M. ROSA, M. VERGA, Storia dell'Età moderna. 1450-1815, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1998; 2) a reading of a methodology to choose from: • P. Prodi, La storia moderna, Bologna, il Mulino, 2005; • M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Torino, Einaudi, 2009; • F. Motta, S. Pavone, Lessico della storia moderna. Concetti, processi, spazi, Roma, Carocci, 2024. FOR EVERYONE (attendant and non-attending) we recommend the use of a historical atlas (for example: Atlante storico. Cronologia della storia universale, Milano, Garzanti, 2003).

The course will consist of a series of lectures, of an institutional nature, on international relations, religious dynamics (Reformation, Counter- Reformation), economic dynamics (development of production and trade), social and institutional dynamics (the diversity of political regimes in Europe: from Tsarist Russia to the Ottoman Empire, from Spanish polycentrism to English democracy ...).

Course Language

Italian

More information

Students who will actually attend at least 2/3 of the lessons will be considered attending. In all other cases, students will bring the program for non-attending people. Students authorised to benefit from inclusive teaching must contact the teacher who, through an individual interview, will identify the most suitable teaching material, as proposed by the Academic Senate. For information on the methods of the course, consult the teacher's personal page at the beginning of the lessons (https://unipv.unifind.cineca.it/get/person/009046) or send an email to: simona.negruzzo@unipv.it It is possible to meet the teacher by appointment in person or online (General - Ricevimento Prof.ssa Negruzzo <670ccc0a.unipv.it@emea.teams.ms>)