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15376 STORIA MODERNA in Humanities L-10 SANFILIPPO Matteo
(syllabus)
History of the West (Central-Western Europe and the Americas). Key Topics: 1. Definition and chronology of the modern age; 2. From the Black plague to humanistic development; 3. Ottoman expansion and the division of the Mediterranean; 4. Discovery and conquest of the New Worlds; 5. The Protestant Reformations (Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican); 6. Charles V’s Empire; 7. Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain; 8. The Thirty Years War and the End of the Religious Wars; 9. The English revolutions; 10. The France of Louis XIV and the struggle for European dominance; 11. Europe in the eighteenth century: political balance and technological-economic innovation; 12. The age of the Revolutions: United States, France, 1848; 13. The social and cultural evolution between the 18th and 19th centuries; 14. The industrial Revolution; 15. The national question in the nineteenth century; 16. Migration and mobility in the modern age
(reference books)
1) General Part: Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, L’età moderna, Laterza 2020. 2) Monographic Part: Tiziano Bonazzi, La rivoluzione americana, Il Mulino 2018; Amedeo Feniello, I nemici degli italiani, Laterza 2020; Il viaggio nell’età moderna, a cura di Francesca De Caprio, ebook, Settecittà 2020. Non-attending students must bring also Matteo Sanfilippo, Dal giubileo al centenario. Strategie di comunicazione politico-religiosa tra il Trecento e il primo Novecento, Sette Città 2016. For the seminar, see AA. VV., Romanzi nel tempo. Come la letteratura racconta la storia (Laterza, 2017) and Matteo Sanfilippo, Historian’s Creed. L’età moderna tra vecchi e nuovi media (Sette Città 2017). On monsters, see Wikipedia (Vampiro; Lupo mannaro; etc.), and the text at the URL http://www.connessioni.disucom.unitus.it/2020/05/07/il-corona-e-il-vampiro-venuto-da-oriente/. See also Tommaso Braccini, Prima di Dracula. Archeologia del vampiro, Il Mulino 2011.
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