B024268 - HISTORY OF ANCIENT AND HIGH MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY

Italian

The life of Jesus; the formation process of Christian communities in the late antique and medieval Mediterranean area.Special attention will be devoted to the history of women and gender history in the three monotheisms, dealing with the cultural matrices and numerous Christian practices and introducing the student to a complex and varied historical context.

Storia del cristianesimo. 1. L’età antica, a cura di Emanuela Prinzivalli, Roma, Carocci, Roma 2015, solo i contributi di Enrico Norelli, Giancarlo Rinaldi (entrambi i suoi saggi), Ewa Wipszycka, Teresa Sardella
Storia del cristianesimo. 2. L’età medievale, a cura di Marina Benedetti, Roma, Carocci, 2015, solo i contributi di Rosa Maria Parrinello, Alfredo Lucioni, Luigi Canetti, François Bougard, Grado Giovanni Merlo.
Isabella Gagliardi, Anima e corpo. Donne e fedi nel mondo mediterraneo (secoli XI-XVI), Roma, Carocci, 2023

Materials (papers, articles, books and sources) used and commented during the course are available for students in Moodle platform and are not mandatory for the final exam but recommended.

1. creating a historical overview of the most important themes of ancient and medieval Christianity;
2 learning to study religious phenomena from a historical-critical point of view;
3. learning to read and to interpret the primary sources related to the Christian religious system;
4. understanding and dealing with methodologies and problems specifically related to the study of pre-modern religious systems;
5 encouraging the development of analytical skills that allow the quality of the research of specialists in the discipline to be evaluated.

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Lectures

Disabled students or students with learning disabilities are invited to contact the
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time.

The exam is oral for all students, even those who do not attend lectures and exchange students (Erasmus and other programmes) The test consists of questions on the following specific topics:
- Knowledge of the most important themes of ancient and medieval Christianity;
- Knowledge of the historical phenomena;
- Ability to use appropriately the terminology of the discipline.
Students must demonstrate sufficient knowledge.

The life of Jesus; the formation process of Christian communities in the late antique and medieval Mediterranean area, devoting preliminary attention to the definition of the canon. The lectures will preliminarily insist on the concept of "religious system", highlighting the plurality of the ancient and medieval Christian world and giving substance to the numerous "souls" of Christianity, showing the fruitful interactions of numerous Christian communities with Judaism, and later with the Islamic world. Special attention will be devoted to the history of women and gender history in the three monotheisms, dealing with the cultural matrices and numerous Christian practices and introducing the student to a complex and varied historical context.

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