HISTORY OF MARGINALITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Academic Year 2020/2021 - 3° Year - Curriculum Educatore nei servizi per l'infanziaLearning Objectives
HISTORY OF MARGINALITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
The teaching provides the student with knowledge to develop a critical judgment on the issue of marginality in the Middle Ages and to frame this topic in the context of the political, social and religious transformations of the age
Course Structure
Formal lectures. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.
Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.
Detailed Course Content
The course deals with the main themes of marginality in the Middle Ages:
- The conception of medieval marginality
- The image of the poor in rural and urban context
- Poor and outcast in medieval sources
- The Church and the poor, between saints and assistance
- Kind of marginalization, between poor and sick people
Textbook Information
1) G. Albini, Poveri e povertà nel Medioevo, Carocci, Roma, 2016, pp. 9-290
2) N. Guglielmi, Il Medioevo degli ultimi: emarginazione e marginalità nei secoli XI-XIV, trad. it., Città Nuova, Roma, 2001, pp. 7-118
3) E. Piazza, La lebbra tra malattia e peccato nell'Alto Medioevo, in «Annali della facoltà di Scienze della formazione - Università degli studi di Catania», 6 (2007), pp. 5-20