HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Carmelina URSO
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: M-STO/01 - MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course aims to recover the meaning and the function of educational institutions, both public and private, during the Middle Ages


Course Structure

Formal lectures


Detailed Course Content

This course identifies the specific models and tools for the cultural transmission during the V-XV centuries; it marks the span of intervention of the public powers in the educational process; it investigates the political-social formative function of culture already in the Middle Ages.


Textbook Information

1) P. Riché, J. Verger, Nani sulle spalle di giganti. Maestri e allievi nel Medioevo, tr. it., Jaca Book, Milano, 2011

2) C. Frova, Istruzione e educazione nel medioevo, Loescher, Torino, 1973

3) F. Delle Donne, La porta del sapere. Cultura alla corte di Federico II di Svevia, Carocci, Roma, 2019