The course aims to provide knowledge and skills needed to improve a critical understanding of historical becoming and to develop an interpretative approach to the matter, suited to the analysis of the general problems of historiographic hermeneutics, the temporal and logical links of cause and effect and the long-term relationships between past and present.
Knowledge and understanding:
Acquiring knowledge of the main processes of the modern age and of the fundamental tools of historiographic methodologies: periodizations, personalities, interpretations recognized by the historiographic "canon".
Applying knowledge and understanding:
Understanding the usefulness of the historical perspective for the analysis of social and political phenomena and proving the ability to use the acquired critical tools by connecting them to the interpretation of historical sources and texts.
Making judgements:
Putting in practice the one's own judgment skills by a non-passive learning over the contents of texts and historiography sources.
Communication skills:
Getting abilities and skills in order to express complex political and social situations by acquiring new communication skills.
Learning skills:
Strengthening the acquired knowledge of the key phenomena of modern history and the fundamental concepts of reflection and historiographic methodology related to the modern age.
Knowledge and understanding:
Acquiring knowledge of the main processes of the modern age and of the fundamental tools of historiographic methodologies: periodizations, personalities, interpretations recognized by the historiographic "canon".
Applying knowledge and understanding:
Understanding the usefulness of the historical perspective for the analysis of social and political phenomena and proving the ability to use the acquired critical tools by connecting them to the interpretation of historical sources and texts.
Making judgements:
Putting in practice the one's own judgment skills by a non-passive learning over the contents of texts and historiography sources.
Communication skills:
Getting abilities and skills in order to express complex political and social situations by acquiring new communication skills.
Learning skills:
Strengthening the acquired knowledge of the key phenomena of modern history and the fundamental concepts of reflection and historiographic methodology related to the modern age.
teacher profile teaching materials
The course also aims to raise awareness about the methods of the historical work, focusing on the disciplinary lexicon, the use of sources and the main historiographic interpretations of the modern age (XV-XIX) relating to: humanism and reform; decline of the city state; formation of capitalism; freedom of conscience and English revolutions; English radicalism in the 1600s; Spain and Italy in the age of absolutism; enlightened despotism; the enclosures of the fields in 18th century England and British constitutional practice; new economic conceptions (liberalism and physiocracy); Turkish order in the Balkans; French revolution and Jacobinism; the 18th Century Restoration, formation of nation states.
Lecture notes
Gian Paolo Romagnani, Storia della storiografia. Dall’antichità a oggi, Carocci, Roma 2019 (capp. 4-11)
Maria Pia Paoli (a cura di), Nel laboratorio della storia. Una guida alle fonti dell’età moderna, Carocci, Roma 2016 (parte II).
Programme
The course analyzes the main historical processes of the modern age and the great shaping contexts of the historiographical themes, with particular reference to political institutions and doctrines, and takes into account the formation of the modern state from the Ständestaat to absolutism, from seventeenth and eighteenth centuries revolutions until the advent of the constitutional state in the early nineteenth century through progressive political achievements, such as the extension of suffrage laws.The course also aims to raise awareness about the methods of the historical work, focusing on the disciplinary lexicon, the use of sources and the main historiographic interpretations of the modern age (XV-XIX) relating to: humanism and reform; decline of the city state; formation of capitalism; freedom of conscience and English revolutions; English radicalism in the 1600s; Spain and Italy in the age of absolutism; enlightened despotism; the enclosures of the fields in 18th century England and British constitutional practice; new economic conceptions (liberalism and physiocracy); Turkish order in the Balkans; French revolution and Jacobinism; the 18th Century Restoration, formation of nation states.
Core Documentation
For attending studentsLecture notes
Gian Paolo Romagnani, Storia della storiografia. Dall’antichità a oggi, Carocci, Roma 2019 (capp. 4-11)
Maria Pia Paoli (a cura di), Nel laboratorio della storia. Una guida alle fonti dell’età moderna, Carocci, Roma 2016 (parte II).
Type of delivery of the course
Lessons and workshop. In the event that the ongoing health COVID-19 emergency still remain, the following methods will apply: lessons and teaching materials provided on the formonline and Microsoft teams platforms.Type of evaluation
For attending students, the exam consists of a written test, i.e. the critical comment of a historiographic text or an archive document chosen from those examined during the course. For non-attending students, the exam consists of two open questions relating to the texts by Romagnani and Paoli (one per book) In the event that the ongoing health COVID-19 emergency still remain, the following methods will apply: oral examination on Microsoft teams platforms.