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.
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The second volume of the textbook provides an in-depth look at some of the key figures who played a central role in the historical and social processes analysed in the core module. Through case studies, it reconstructs the experiences of travel and exploration, trade and commercial networks, and the movement of people, goods and ideas across the various continents, as well as the biographies and works of those who played a key role in broadening our geographical horizons from prehistory to the present day.
Mutuazione: 20702476-2 Storia della geografia e delle esplorazioni - 2 in Storia, territorio e società globale L-42 R D'ASCENZO ANNALISA
Programme
Teaching Unit II - 6 CFU - Travels and geography: from homination to Space explorationThe second volume of the textbook provides an in-depth look at some of the key figures who played a central role in the historical and social processes analysed in the core module. Through case studies, it reconstructs the experiences of travel and exploration, trade and commercial networks, and the movement of people, goods and ideas across the various continents, as well as the biographies and works of those who played a key role in broadening our geographical horizons from prehistory to the present day.
Core Documentation
Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Graziella Galliano, Al di là di altrove. Volume II. Viaggiatori ed esploratori: i più grandi di ogni tempo, Milano, Mursia, 2026.Attendance
Attendance is compulsory to sustain the examination as an attendeeType of evaluation
The exam is held in person and in written form for all candidates. It consists of open-ended questions on key figures, themes or events in the development of the history of geography and exploration. The following aspects are assessed: the structure and ability to express ideas and use both general and specialist terminology relevant to the discipline; the appropriateness of the answers to the questions asked; the critical ability to summarise the processes studied; and the ability to situate key events, figures and fundamental works in time and space. Candidates are required to use written Italian correctly, employing language appropriate to university level and ensuring formal syntactic and grammatical accuracy.The compensatory and dispensatory measures allowed and adopted for examination papers are in accordance with the VADEMECUM to promote the inclusion process of students with disabilities and SLD (see April 2024), which regulates their requests (https://www.uniroma3.it/ateneo/uffici/ufficio-studenti-disabilita-dsa/).