The course aims to provide students with the main methodological tools to analyze and interpret society and economy during the medieval period. Its objective is twofold: on one hand, it intends to provide students with a complex series of conceptual and categorical tools from which it is possible to "think" a social and economic structure; on the other hand, it intends to bring students closer to medieval sources their problems, allowing them to acquire an adequate methodology to reconstruct individuals, groups, practices and circuits as well as to identify the processes of change starting from a specific documentary corpus.
Curriculum
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The course aims to review recent historiography on fiefs and vassals, comparing it with traditional theses, starting with the direct reading of a selection of sources.
Giuseppe Albertoni, Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Programme
Historiography between revision and tradition. Feuds and vassals in the 8th-12th centuries.The course aims to review recent historiography on fiefs and vassals, comparing it with traditional theses, starting with the direct reading of a selection of sources.
Core Documentation
François Louis Ganshof, Che cos'è il feudalesimo?, Torino, Einaudi, 2003.Giuseppe Albertoni, Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessons, face-to-face or remotely according to the provisions covid-19, with participatory analysis of historiographic documents and texts.Attendance
Attendance is not compulsory, but particularly useful to interpret and put into context the sources analyzed in Albertoni's book Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo.Type of evaluation
Oral test. Exam Questions will judge the Knowledge of Course main Themes and asses the Competences in matter of Contextualization of Sources and Historiography. teacher profile teaching materials
The course aims to review recent historiography on fiefs and vassals, comparing it with traditional theses, starting with the direct reading of a selection of sources.
Giuseppe Albertoni, Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Programme
Historiography between revision and tradition. Feuds and vassals in the 8th-12th centuries.The course aims to review recent historiography on fiefs and vassals, comparing it with traditional theses, starting with the direct reading of a selection of sources.
Core Documentation
François Louis Ganshof, Che cos'è il feudalesimo?, Torino, Einaudi, 2003.Giuseppe Albertoni, Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessons, face-to-face or remotely according to the provisions covid-19, with participatory analysis of historiographic documents and texts.Attendance
Attendance is not compulsory, but particularly useful to interpret and put into context the sources analyzed in Albertoni's book Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo.Type of evaluation
Oral test. Exam Questions will judge the Knowledge of Course main Themes and asses the Competences in matter of Contextualization of Sources and Historiography. teacher profile teaching materials
The course aims to review recent historiography on fiefs and vassals, comparing it with traditional theses, starting with the direct reading of a selection of sources.
Giuseppe Albertoni, Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Programme
Historiography between revision and tradition. Feuds and vassals in the 8th-12th centuries.The course aims to review recent historiography on fiefs and vassals, comparing it with traditional theses, starting with the direct reading of a selection of sources.
Core Documentation
François Louis Ganshof, Che cos'è il feudalesimo?, Torino, Einaudi, 2003.Giuseppe Albertoni, Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessons, face-to-face or remotely according to the provisions covid-19, with participatory analysis of historiographic documents and texts.Attendance
Attendance is not compulsory, but particularly useful to interpret and put into context the sources analyzed in Albertoni's book Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo.Type of evaluation
Oral test. Exam Questions will judge the Knowledge of Course main Themes and asses the Competences in matter of Contextualization of Sources and Historiography.