The master's course allows you to acquire specific analytical skills to read and critically evaluate the sources relating to travel from a geographical point of view. Understand strengths, limitations and defects of the sources used and usable by Geography in order to reconstruct the environmental, social and cultural frameworks of the past. Understand and enhance the cultural context in which the odeporic sources were created and the importance of the biographies of their authors. Draw information from these sources, even if not explicitly provided, and organize the geographic data as a function of a cognitive question, a goal (scientific, practical).
teacher profile teaching materials
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/file/344CE0FA-C16C-4536-84DF-4F0624F5818D?tenantId=ffb4df68-f464-458c-a546-00fb3af66f6a&fileType=pdf&objectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO%2FMateriale%20del%20corso%2FCaraci%20Geotema.pdf&baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO&serviceName=teams&threadId=19:f34be9d0c8a841a7981f2d8b39d7105a@thread.tacv2&groupId=a760e24a-ee11-4d7b-be00-294a107557e1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Lo schema (immaginare-)trovare-cercare-scoprire applicato alle rappresentazioni del Giappone (metà XIV-metà XVII secolo), in ANNALISA D’ASCENZO (a cura di), Geostoria. Geostorie, Roma, CISGE, 2015, pp. 65-95 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/856).
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Mutuazione: 20710063 GEOGRAFIA E LETTERATURA DEL VIAGGIO in Storia e società LM-84 D'ASCENZO ANNALISA
Programme
Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).Core Documentation
Not attending- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/file/344CE0FA-C16C-4536-84DF-4F0624F5818D?tenantId=ffb4df68-f464-458c-a546-00fb3af66f6a&fileType=pdf&objectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO%2FMateriale%20del%20corso%2FCaraci%20Geotema.pdf&baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO&serviceName=teams&threadId=19:f34be9d0c8a841a7981f2d8b39d7105a@thread.tacv2&groupId=a760e24a-ee11-4d7b-be00-294a107557e1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Lo schema (immaginare-)trovare-cercare-scoprire applicato alle rappresentazioni del Giappone (metà XIV-metà XVII secolo), in ANNALISA D’ASCENZO (a cura di), Geostoria. Geostorie, Roma, CISGE, 2015, pp. 65-95 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/856).
Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.
Type of delivery of the course
As for all master's degree courses, attendance is mandatory. During the lessons are studied in depth the theories and critical elements useful for understanding how, over time, we have passed from travel literature to geographic knowledge. Different types of travelers, odeporiche sources and scientific works are analyzed. If possible, lessons will take place in the presence, with frontal teaching. Otherwise it will be video lessons, through Teams, with support for slides and readings.Type of evaluation
The exam - if possible - is written, for everyone. Otherwise an oral, at a distance. The modalities will depend on the health situation close to the appeals. Open questions, on figures, themes or nodal events for the history of geography and exploration. Questions on the theories and methods of analysis of travel literature, on the types of sources that can be used for research, on the historical, cultural and social contexts in which the data contained in the odeporic sources are transformed into geographical knowledge. Only for attending students (those who participate in the lessons continuously), the exam takes place on materials provided in class and with the shared discussion of an original paper (which must be delivered in writing before the group presentation) prepared during the course. Remember that copying is a crime.