STORIA DEL VIAGGIO NEL MEDIOEVO

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: EMANUELE PIAZZA

Expected Learning Outcomes

The expected learning objectives, declined according to the Dublin Descriptors, are the following:

- Knowledge and understanding (DD1) = The course investigates the historical dimension of the travel in the Middle Ages, offering students a critical approach to the different cultural, social and religious facets of this issue, also framing it in the context of the political transformations that occurred in this era.

- Applying knowledge and understanding (DD2) = The student will acquire the skills to connect the theoretical and methodological contents learned with the interpretation of past, present and future events and processes.

- Making judgements (DD3) = The student will acquire the ability to make critical judgments of the content learned and grasp the connection between the objectives and results of research in the field of medieval travel.

- Communication (DD4) = Student's competence in justifying historiographical knowledge and methodologies in oral and written form is one of the educational objectives of the discipline.

- Lifelong learning skills (DD5) = The student will acquire the cognitive tools necessary to deal with complex historiographical issues and also to focus on training needs.

Course Structure

Lectures.

Required Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the Middle Ages.

Attendance of Lessons

Optional.

Detailed Course Content

The course focuses on the dimension of travel in the Middle Ages and examines the different contexts (social, cultural, economic, religious) in which women and men of the time felt the need to set out. Particular attention will be paid to the Mediterranean routes followed by pilgrims. The lectures will explore the dynamics of travel in the Middle Ages within the multifaceted framework of the Mediterranean, an area that will be studied in particular in the light of its tripartite relationship between the Catholic West, Islam and the Byzantine East.

Textbook Information

1) M.S. Mazzi, In viaggio nel Medioevo, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2019 (ISBN: 9788815280534).

2) F. Cardini, L. Russo, Homo viator. Il pellegrinaggio medievale, Viareggio (LU), La Vela, 2019 (ISBN: 9788899661588), pp. 11-127.

Course Planning

	Subjects	Text References
1	PARTE PRIMA: ANDARE PER IL MONDO	TESTO 1), PP. 13-143
2	PARTE SECONDA: TRA IMMAGINAZIONE E REALTA'	TESTO 1), PP. 145-258
3	I FONDAMENTI DEL PELLEGRINAGGIO-RELIQUIE E PELLEGRINAGGI NELL’ALTO MEDIOEVO-EGERIA E GLI ALTRI PELLEGRINI ALTOMEDIEVALI-IL PELLEGRINAGGIO NEL MONDO CELTICO E NELLE ISOLE BRITANNICHE-SANTUARI MICAELICI	TESTO 2), PP. 11-127

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Oral exam. During the course of the lessons, specific indications will be provided regarding the carrying out of one or more optional in itinere tests. These indications will also be published online by the teacher.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Rather than a list of frequently asked questions, which, moreover, refer to the topics indicated in the above-mentioned syllabus, it is pointed out that in the examination the student is asked to:

- a correct spatial-temporal collocation of the events;

- an adequate critical re-elaboration of the topics addressed by the teaching;

- an effective ability to make connections between the various topics addressed in the course of the lectures.

Degree Course in

Tourism Science