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Course organization
The teaching is preparatory to the investigation of history in different epochs, through an introduction to the processes of construction of the historical knowledge and its different phases: subjectivity of knowledge, research, treatment of the informations, reliability of sources, the building process of the text.
Prerequisites: a basic knowledge of history in general.
Contents: a methodological introduction to the study of history. Examination of the opportunities and of the problems given by a plurality of sources. The mith of Rome and of the Modern nations. An introduction to global history.
Texts:
1. Pietro Corrao, Paolo Viola, Introduzione agli studi di storia, Roma, Donzelli, 2005.
2. Sergio Luzzatto (a cura di), Prima lezione di metodo storico, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.
One more book is to be chosen between:
3a. Patrick J. Geary, Il mito delle nazioni. Le origini medievali dell’Europa, Roma, Carocci, 2009;
3b. Jared Diamond, Collasso. Come le società scelgono di morire o vivere, Torino, Einaudi, 2005;
3c. Andrea Giardina, André Vauchez, Il mito di Roma. Da Carlo Magno a Mussolini, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000.
3d. Sergio Luzzatto, Padre Pio. Miracoli e politica nell’Italia del Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2009.
3e. Jacques Revel (a cura di), Giochi di scala. La microstoria alla prova dell’esperienza, Roma, Viella, 2006.
A recommended further reading, mandatory for those who will not attend to lectures is:
Marina Caffiero, Micaela Procaccia (a cura di), Vero e falso. L’uso politico della storia, Roma, Donzelli, 2008
Didactical methods: frontal lessons.
Oral exam based on the discussion of the texts in the program (included the one chosen by students).
