B032013 - RIVERS AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT IN MEDIEVAL CITIES

English

The three lectures of the course will focus on the relationship between human settlements and riverine areas in the Middle Ages, from economic, social, cultural and religious perspectives

SALVESTRINI F., Urban society and environmental disasters. River floods in Medieval and Early Modern Tuscany, in Along the water: urban natural crises between Italy and Japan, ed. by T. ITO, F. SCARONI, N. MATSUDA, Tokyo, Ed. Sayusha 2017, pp. 97 - 107;
2. Id., The Arno floods in Florence history, in The Colors of the Flood. Past, present and future through the unpublished color pictures by Joe Blaustein, ed. by F. GIOVANNELLI and G. SABELLA, Empoli - Firenze, AB Edizioni 2015.

The lessons are intended to encourage a diachronic approach to the study of the relationship between man and the environment, highlighting the ways in which river ecosystems determined the development and difficulties of some large urban settlements in the Middle Ages

European history of the 5th-15th centuries

Lectures and didactic excursion aimed at encouraging a direct approach to the Arno river environment in Florence

The lectures will be seminar-based and will require the constant presence of students both in the classroom lectures and in the excursions

Oral examination and discussion with students aimed at ascertaining the acquisition of historical awareness in relation to the relationship between human settlements and the ecosystem in the medieval age

The lectures will include an introduction to the theme of the relationship between man and the environment, with particular reference to European river cities in the Middle Ages. In the second part of the cycle we will deal with the example of Florence and its relationship with the river Arno, highlighting both the factors of economic development and the criticalities caused by frequent flooding

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