Study-unit MODERN HISTORY

Course name Foreign languages and cultures
Study-unit Code GP004920
Curriculum Comune a tutti i curricula
Lecturer Filippo Maria Troiani
Lecturers
  • Filippo Maria Troiani
Hours
  • 54 ore - Filippo Maria Troiani
CFU 9
Course Regulation Coorte 2022
Supplied 2022/23
Supplied other course regulation
Learning activities Base
Area Discipline storiche, geografiche e socio-antropologiche
Sector M-STO/02
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction Italian language
Contents In the first part of the course the evolution of the European civilization will be faced by the end of Four hundred to the Napoleonic empire, weaving I space him/it political with the social, economic and cultural stories. In the second will deepen the specific theme of the formation of the ruling classes between the Old regime and the liberal age through the analysis of the events of some families in Umbria.
Reference texts The recommended texts are: for the general history; G. Ricuperati, F.Ieva, Manuale di Storia Moderna, UTET, Torino, Capitoli
1/3/4/5/6/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/16/17/19/20/21/22/23/24/25 (DA STUDIARE PER INTERO), Capitoli 2/7/15/18/ (DA LEGGERE).
For the second module on the Industrial Revolution the text: A. Giardina, G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, The Industrial Revolution. Documents and problems, Laterza Modules of which will be provided appropriate pantry available at the Library Morlacchi Perugia.
In order to deepen the themes related to the roles and paths of the ruling classes of the pontifical domains between the first half of the eighteenth and the second half of the nineteenth century, students will have to critically read a chapter of their choice of the volume, F.M. Troiani, Roles and itineraries of the papal notary between the old regime and the liberal age. Genesis of a cetual identity, Il Formichiere, 2022 (in press).
Educational objectives To know the changes and the breakups that have marked deeply the history of Europe in the modern age, underlining the changes more than the continuities and the uniformities, to analyze the multiplicity of the political models, cultural, religious and of the working forms of the organization of the society in the European history. To reconstruct the trials that have brought to the today's condition, individualizing in the European expansion, in to rise of a world economy, in the connection of the contents through the emigrations of mass, in the planetary widening of the international relationships, in the formation of a cosmopolitan culture, the roots of the contemporaneity.
Prerequisites With the purpose to understand and to face the course the student must possess the general notions concerning the chronological arc taken in examination by the course (1492 -1820), to know how to connect facts and events in the time, to reorganize data and concepts to know the principals conceptual and terminological tools of the discipline.
Teaching methods Frontal lessons with projections of slide and breves filmed that they reassume the treated contained principals.
Other information During the carrying out of the course you/they will have made of the students on the base UNISTUDIUM the materials used in the frontal lessons available.For urgent communications and appointments to write mail to the address filippo.troiani@unipg.it.
Learning verification modality The evaluation consists of a final oral exam. The final oral exam consists of a 30-minute max interview related to the entire program of the course that aims to ascertain the knowledge of the topics covered and the mastery of the language, the ability to use the acquired knowledge and to connect it in the argument beyond the ability to discuss and deepen in various respects the different topics covered in the first and second module.
Extended program The course is separated in two parts. In the first (48 hours) one you/they will be faced the changes and the breakups that have marked deeply the history of Europe in the modern age, underlining the changes, the plurality of the political models, cultural, religious and of the forms of the organization of the society. Such objective will be reached through the knowledges and the study of the followings matters:
The breakup of the geographical barriers - the explorations and the discovery of America - the birth of the colonial empires Italy and Europe in Five hundred - the shine of the Italian Renaissance - the wars of Italy - the Protestant Reform - the Controriforma and the Council of Trento - new wars for the predominance on Europe Six hundred - Six hundred Europe - the absolute monarchy in France - the parliamentary monarchy in England - Italy in Six hundred - the scientific revolution The first Seven hundred - the new culture of the Enlightenment - Europe and Italy of the Seven hundred one The age of the Revolutions - the first industrial Revolution - the American Revolution and the birth of the United States of America - the French Revolution - The Napoleonic age.
In the second will deepen the specific theme of the formation of the ruling classes between the Old regime and the liberal age through the analysis of the events of some families in Umbria.

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