Teacher
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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: Franco Benigno, L'età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell'America alla Restaurazione (Laterza 2014). 2) Monographic Part: Guido Abbatista, La rivoluzione americana, Laterza 2019; Girolamo Arnaldi, L'Italia e i suoi invasori, Laterza 2018; Alessandro Boccolini, a cura di, L’Europa centro-orientale, free ebook nel sito https://www.easterneuropeanhistory.eu/. Non-attending students must bring also: Matteo Sanfilippo, Storie, epoche, epidemie, Sette Città 2020. For a second exam, for the general part students must bring Cemil Aydin, Il lungo Ottocento. Una storia politica internazionale, Einaudi 2019, instead of Franco Benigno, L’età moderna. The monographic part is the same as for the first exam. 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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