Early modern history and contemporary history - Storia moderna (2014/2015)

Learning outcomes

Using complementary teaching approaches (lectures on general history, monographic lectures on specific topics, seminars and labs aimed at analysing sources), the course aims to provide students with the foundations for an understanding of the reality and dynamics of early modern European societies (XV-XVIII centuries). The course specifically aims to prepare students to be able to give a critical reading of historical events and phenomena.

Texts for the examination
The course is intended to provide a good grounding in European history in the XV and XVIII centuries; the tools needed in order to interpret the most important moments of economic, social, political-institutional and cultural transformation and how to analyse and contextualize a historical document.

Texts for the examination

General History part

A good university level manual of modern history that deals exhaustively with the following topics:

1. Le scoperte geografiche
2. Riforma e Controriforma
3. La Spagna di Filippo II e l’indipendenza olandese
4. La Francia di Luigi XIV
5. Le due rivoluzioni inglesi
6. Il dispotismo illuminato
7. La prima rivoluzione industriale
8. La rivoluzione americana
9. La rivoluzione francese e l’età napoleonica

a) documents given during lessons;

Monographic section

One work chosen from among the following:

Written examinations and the subsequent oral examination (only for those who first passed the written exam) must be taken during the same examination period, even if on two different dates. The written examination will cover the institutional part and the oral interview will focus on the text chosen from among those listed as reference texts.