THE COURSE HAS AN INSTITUTIONAL NATURE AND AIMS TO OFFER A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAJOR PHASES OF WESTERN HISTORY IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD, EACH OF THE TWO MODULES PUTTING THE ACCORD ON A SPECIFIC SECTOR OF HISTORICAL REALITY, NAMELY: IN THE FIRST MODULE ON THE FORMS OF POLITICAL DOMINATION, IN ORDER TO ILLUSTRATE THEIR DIVERSITY AND THEIR SUCCESSION IN RELATION TO CHANGES IN SOCIETY AND THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL PECULIARITIES OF EACH AREA; IN THE SECOND MODULE ON THE RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF WESTERN HISTORY, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN SOCIETY AND THE EVOLUTION OF ECCLESIASTICAL STRUCTURES, TO THE CHANGES AND METHODS OF ACQUISITION AND CIRCULATION OF WRITTEN CULTURE.
teacher profile teaching materials
M. Cristofani (ed.), Etruschi: una nuova immagine, Giunti, Firenze, 1985: pp. 33-72.
Fruizione: 20702562 ETRUSCOLOGIA E ANTICHITÀ ITALICHE in ARCHEOLOGIA E STORIA DELL'ARTE L-1 (docente da definire)
Programme
The course will address the following main topics: the archaeological foundations of the study of the civilizations of pre-Roman Italy; the definition of an Etruscan culture and its correlations with other neighboring cultures; the cultural aspects of the Etruscan world and their articulations in space and time; Etruscan art and handicraft; the epigraphic and linguistic evidence; the political-cultural mosaic of Italy in the 1st millennium BC; the historical, social and cultural context of the political unification of the peninsula under Roman rule.Core Documentation
G. Bartoloni (ed.), Introduzione all’etruscologia, Hoepli, Milano, 2012: chapters 1, 3-6, 8-12.M. Cristofani (ed.), Etruschi: una nuova immagine, Giunti, Firenze, 1985: pp. 33-72.
Attendance
Non-attending students are kindly requested to contact the teacher for any supplementary materials.Type of evaluation
The exam will be an oral test on the topics covered in class and by reference texts.