Knowledge of the transformation of rural and urban landscapes in the long period of the Middle Ages. Recognition of man's ability to orient and populate space and to build villages designed for rural and city communities that inhabit local territories. The great changes in urban and rural space are retraced through lectures and general frameworks with the analysis and reading of documents designed to prove the complexity of the problems faced by medieval man in the construction of landscapes functional to the social life of communities.
Curriculum
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Programme
Woods and swamps. Public Estates and Commons in Medieval Italy. Aim of this course is to analyse Public Estates and Commons Management in Medieval Italy, from 8th tu 13th century. We will compare different Case Studies, from Lombard Kingdom to Southern Italy in Norman-Swabian Period.Public Estates in Early Medieval Europe.Core Documentation
V. Loré, Curtis regia e beni dei duchi. Il patrimonio pubblico nel regno longobardo, in Biens publics, biens du roi. Les bases économiques des pouvoirs royaux dans le haut Moyen Âge / Beni pubblici, beni del re. Le basi economiche dei poteri regi nell’alto medioevo, ed. F. Bougard and V. Loré, Turnhout, Brepols, pp. 31-78, and a choice of three others articles in the same volume (almost one necessarily in english, french or spanish); R. Rao, I paesaggi dell'Italia medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2015, pp. 155-174, 221-237; S. Carocci, “Metodo regressivo” e possessi collettivi: i “demani” del Mezzogiorno (sec. XII-XVIII), in D. Boisseuil et al., Ecritures de l'espace social, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010 (open access: https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/11261?lang=it#ftn19); dossier of Medieval Sources or alternatively Rao, I paesaggi dell'Italia medievale (the whoole book).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
Programme
Woods and swamps. Public Estates and Commons in Medieval Italy. Aim of this course is to analyse Public Estates and Commons Management in Medieval Italy, from 8th tu 13th century. We will compare different Case Studies, from Lombard Kingdom to Southern Italy in Norman-Swabian Period.Public Estates in Early Medieval Europe.Core Documentation
V. Loré, Curtis regia e beni dei duchi. Il patrimonio pubblico nel regno longobardo, in Biens publics, biens du roi. Les bases économiques des pouvoirs royaux dans le haut Moyen Âge / Beni pubblici, beni del re. Le basi economiche dei poteri regi nell’alto medioevo, ed. F. Bougard and V. Loré, Turnhout, Brepols, pp. 31-78, and a choice of three others articles in the same volume (almost one necessarily in english, french or spanish); R. Rao, I paesaggi dell'Italia medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2015, pp. 155-174, 221-237; S. Carocci, “Metodo regressivo” e possessi collettivi: i “demani” del Mezzogiorno (sec. XII-XVIII), in D. Boisseuil et al., Ecritures de l'espace social, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010 (open access: https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/11261?lang=it#ftn19); dossier of Medieval Sources or alternatively Rao, I paesaggi dell'Italia medievale (the whoole book).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.