Knowledge and Understanding:
The course aims to equip students with essential tools to:
Applying Knowledge and Understanding:
By the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired a sufficient command of the disciplinary scientific language. This will allow them to:
Autonomy of Judgment:
Through the study and critical analysis of the texts listed in the bibliography, as well as the sources provided during the course, students are expected to develop the ability to critically assess the evolution of religious phenomena over time and their relationship with cultural heritage.
Communication Skills:
Working on source presentation will help students enhance their argumentative and communication skills, enabling them to convey the complexity of the discipline and the documentary systems that support it.
Learning Skills:
Students should acquire the competencies necessary to pursue advanced (Master’s level) studies in the fields of archaeology, history, and cultural heritage.
No prerequisites.
The course will be based on interactive lectures, supplemented by the presentation of textual documents, geographical maps, and a rich iconographic apparatus. These materials may serve as the basis for individual or group assignments aimed at increasing students' awareness of the typological diversity and breadth of documentary source systems related to the History of Christianity.
The exam will be conducted orally.
During the interview, students will be asked questions aimed at assessing:
their knowledge of the fundamental frameworks of the History of Christianity;
their clarity of expression and use of disciplinary language;
their ability to critically rework content. This includes the capacity to identify historical connections and to interpret sources critically from a long-term diachronic perspective.
The exam will be held in Italian, and the final grade will be expressed on a scale of thirty.
For all:
1.Gian Luca Potestà, Giovanni Vian, Storia del cristianesimo, il Mulino, Bologna, 2014, capp. I-XIX
2.Antonio Musarra, Fra Cielo e Terra. Gerusalemme e l'Occidente medievale, Carocci, Roma, 2024.
Topics:
1. Jesus and the origins of Christianity;
2. Christianity religion of the Roman Empire;
3. Christianity and Islamic expansion;
4. The expansion in Central Asia, India and Cina;
5. The birth of monasticism and Christianity in the Middle Ages;
6. The Christian Churches at the dawn of the modern age;
7. The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic reaction
8. Catholic evangelization in the East and in the New World;
9. Art and Christianity;
10. Insight on Jerusalem
Since its origins, the history of Christianity has been an integral part of
history understood in the broadest sense of the term, not only in relation
to the West but also to extra-European spaces. In fact, one can speak of
Christianity as a truly global phenomenon. The course intends to
investigate the relationships between the religious phenomenon and
political, social and cultural history starting from the birth of Christianity
up to the modern age, also taking into account the relationships between
the different Christian churches and other religions spread both in Europe
and in the rest of the world, therefore not only Islam and Judaism but
also, for example, Confucianism and Hinduism.
Particular emphasis will be given to the impact of religious phenomena on
cultural heritage.
Italian
No prerequisites or preparatory courses.
