The student will acquire advanced knowledge through the specialized level analysis of one or more medieval Latin literary texts, with specific attention to formal aspects and seminar-like interaction with the attending students.
Curriculum
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Monastic traditions of the Latin West: the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville
Course description:
The monographic module intends in the first place to retrace the origins and typologies of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages -, and then to analyze, with particular attention to the lexicon and the use of sources, the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville, a text that has not been studied so far, but due to one of the greatest auctoritates of medieval culture. - As part of the module, exercises will also be activated aimed at guiding the knowledge and use of the main bibliographic and IT tools for the study and research on Middle Latin authors.
2. M. Di Marco, Note sulla terminologia monastica di Isidoro di Siviglia:aspetti istituzionali strutturali e materiali della vita cenobitica, in Latinitas S.N. III/1 (2015), pp. 55-85.
Id., Dum ad dormiendum uadunt. Note sul lessico isidoriano relativo alle tentazioni notturne dei monaci (Isid. reg. monach. 13), in Paideia LXXIII (2018), pp. 1953-1967.
Id., ‘Psalmorum spiritalia sacramenta’ : note sul lessico liturgico-rituale nella ‘Regula monachorum’ di Isidoro di Siviglia, in Latinitas S.N. VII/1 (2019), pp. 65-83.
3. F. Trisoglio, Introduzione a Isidoro di Siviglia, Ed. Morcelliana, Brescia 2009.
4. Un volume a scelta fra i seguenti:
- M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad.it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
- A. Rapetti, Storia del monachesimo medievale, Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
Optional readings:
- G. M. Colombás, El monacato primitivo, Madrid 2004.
- M. Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages, Oxford 2003.
- J. C. Martín Iglesias, Réflexions sur la tradition manuscrite de trois oeuvres d'Isidore de Séville: le De natura rerum, la Regula monachorum et le De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, in Filologia Mediolatina. Studies in Medieval Latin Texts and Transmission XI (2004), pp. 205-263.
- S. Pricoco, Il monachesimo, Ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003.
Programme
Course title:Monastic traditions of the Latin West: the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville
Course description:
The monographic module intends in the first place to retrace the origins and typologies of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages -, and then to analyze, with particular attention to the lexicon and the use of sources, the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville, a text that has not been studied so far, but due to one of the greatest auctoritates of medieval culture. - As part of the module, exercises will also be activated aimed at guiding the knowledge and use of the main bibliographic and IT tools for the study and research on Middle Latin authors.
Core Documentation
1. Isidorus Hispalensis, Regula monachorum, ed. J. Campos Ruiz, in: Santos Padres españoles, II : San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda. Los tres libros de las ‘Sentencias’, Madrid 1971 (Bibl. de Auctores Cristianos, vol. 321), pp. 90-124.2. M. Di Marco, Note sulla terminologia monastica di Isidoro di Siviglia:aspetti istituzionali strutturali e materiali della vita cenobitica, in Latinitas S.N. III/1 (2015), pp. 55-85.
Id., Dum ad dormiendum uadunt. Note sul lessico isidoriano relativo alle tentazioni notturne dei monaci (Isid. reg. monach. 13), in Paideia LXXIII (2018), pp. 1953-1967.
Id., ‘Psalmorum spiritalia sacramenta’ : note sul lessico liturgico-rituale nella ‘Regula monachorum’ di Isidoro di Siviglia, in Latinitas S.N. VII/1 (2019), pp. 65-83.
3. F. Trisoglio, Introduzione a Isidoro di Siviglia, Ed. Morcelliana, Brescia 2009.
4. Un volume a scelta fra i seguenti:
- M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad.it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
- A. Rapetti, Storia del monachesimo medievale, Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
Optional readings:
- G. M. Colombás, El monacato primitivo, Madrid 2004.
- M. Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages, Oxford 2003.
- J. C. Martín Iglesias, Réflexions sur la tradition manuscrite de trois oeuvres d'Isidore de Séville: le De natura rerum, la Regula monachorum et le De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, in Filologia Mediolatina. Studies in Medieval Latin Texts and Transmission XI (2004), pp. 205-263.
- S. Pricoco, Il monachesimo, Ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003.
Type of delivery of the course
36 hours; 6 credits; 2nd semesterType of evaluation
oral exam teacher profile teaching materials
Monastic traditions of the Latin West: the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville
Course description:
The monographic module intends in the first place to retrace the origins and typologies of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages -, and then to analyze, with particular attention to the lexicon and the use of sources, the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville, a text that has not been studied so far, but due to one of the greatest auctoritates of medieval culture. - As part of the module, exercises will also be activated aimed at guiding the knowledge and use of the main bibliographic and IT tools for the study and research on Middle Latin authors.
2. M. Di Marco, Note sulla terminologia monastica di Isidoro di Siviglia:aspetti istituzionali strutturali e materiali della vita cenobitica, in Latinitas S.N. III/1 (2015), pp. 55-85.
Id., Dum ad dormiendum uadunt. Note sul lessico isidoriano relativo alle tentazioni notturne dei monaci (Isid. reg. monach. 13), in Paideia LXXIII (2018), pp. 1953-1967.
Id., ‘Psalmorum spiritalia sacramenta’ : note sul lessico liturgico-rituale nella ‘Regula monachorum’ di Isidoro di Siviglia, in Latinitas S.N. VII/1 (2019), pp. 65-83.
3. F. Trisoglio, Introduzione a Isidoro di Siviglia, Ed. Morcelliana, Brescia 2009.
4. Un volume a scelta fra i seguenti:
- M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad.it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
- A. Rapetti, Storia del monachesimo medievale, Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
Optional readings:
- G. M. Colombás, El monacato primitivo, Madrid 2004.
- M. Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages, Oxford 2003.
- J. C. Martín Iglesias, Réflexions sur la tradition manuscrite de trois oeuvres d'Isidore de Séville: le De natura rerum, la Regula monachorum et le De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, in Filologia Mediolatina. Studies in Medieval Latin Texts and Transmission XI (2004), pp. 205-263.
- S. Pricoco, Il monachesimo, Ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003.
Programme
Course title:Monastic traditions of the Latin West: the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville
Course description:
The monographic module intends in the first place to retrace the origins and typologies of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages -, and then to analyze, with particular attention to the lexicon and the use of sources, the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville, a text that has not been studied so far, but due to one of the greatest auctoritates of medieval culture. - As part of the module, exercises will also be activated aimed at guiding the knowledge and use of the main bibliographic and IT tools for the study and research on Middle Latin authors.
Core Documentation
1. Isidorus Hispalensis, Regula monachorum, ed. J. Campos Ruiz, in: Santos Padres españoles, II : San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda. Los tres libros de las ‘Sentencias’, Madrid 1971 (Bibl. de Auctores Cristianos, vol. 321), pp. 90-124.2. M. Di Marco, Note sulla terminologia monastica di Isidoro di Siviglia:aspetti istituzionali strutturali e materiali della vita cenobitica, in Latinitas S.N. III/1 (2015), pp. 55-85.
Id., Dum ad dormiendum uadunt. Note sul lessico isidoriano relativo alle tentazioni notturne dei monaci (Isid. reg. monach. 13), in Paideia LXXIII (2018), pp. 1953-1967.
Id., ‘Psalmorum spiritalia sacramenta’ : note sul lessico liturgico-rituale nella ‘Regula monachorum’ di Isidoro di Siviglia, in Latinitas S.N. VII/1 (2019), pp. 65-83.
3. F. Trisoglio, Introduzione a Isidoro di Siviglia, Ed. Morcelliana, Brescia 2009.
4. Un volume a scelta fra i seguenti:
- M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad.it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
- A. Rapetti, Storia del monachesimo medievale, Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
Optional readings:
- G. M. Colombás, El monacato primitivo, Madrid 2004.
- M. Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages, Oxford 2003.
- J. C. Martín Iglesias, Réflexions sur la tradition manuscrite de trois oeuvres d'Isidore de Séville: le De natura rerum, la Regula monachorum et le De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, in Filologia Mediolatina. Studies in Medieval Latin Texts and Transmission XI (2004), pp. 205-263.
- S. Pricoco, Il monachesimo, Ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003.
Type of delivery of the course
36 hours; 6 credits; 2nd semesterType of evaluation
oral exam