Università degli Studi di Siena

LATIN PALEOGRAPHY A

AF monodisc.

Course details

Academic year:

2013/2014

Available in academic year:

2013/2014

Type of course:

Characteristic of the class

Department/structure:

First cycle degree (DM 270) in Humanities

Department of History and cultural heritage

Scientific-disciplinary sector:

PALEOGRAFIA (M-STO/09)

Course language:

Italian

Credits:

Course year:

Teaching staff:

TRISTANO CATERINA

Semester:

Second semester

Hours of lectures:

Hours of self study:

171

Requirements:

basic-level knowledge of the Latin language and good knowledge of medieval history.

Learning objectives

The course aims to illustrate the Latin and vernacular writing from the 1st to the 16th century, with constant comparisons between book/document writing and usual writing in eras and homogeneous areas, in order to recognize schools and production environments and use various graphic forms. Lectures will be done on epigraphic, painted and book title's graphic systems

Contents

Writing book from Latin antiquity up to Humanism. Contacts and particularity in relation to other contemporary writings. Write scopes and typologies of libraries in the medieval West prior to the spread of movable type printing. Write documents, registers, books of family in the late Middle Ages.

Full programme

Paleography and history of written culture: history of Palaeographical Studies from the 17th century to today. The "method" of Palaeography and its possible developments. Supports and writing methods (volumen, codex, epigraph, document): writing environments, producers of written text, public user Latin writing: paleographic terminology, evolution and periodization of the writing from the 6th century BC until the 16th century AC. Writings and writers in classical and late antiquity. Books and documents writing in the high middle ages in the so-called Roman-barbarian Kingdoms. IX-XII Centuries: the reform of the writing and development of literacy; book writing, documentary exposed; educational levels and levels of writing; writings of notaries and chancelors. Book and document writing between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: University libraries and schools, documentary writings, the writing of the new bourgeoisie, innovations and persisting graphic styles on humanistic age. Humanism and writing (books, documents, epigraphy, monuments, painting); the introduction of movable type printing. Printed book vs. manuscript book? Or not?

Suggested reading list

A. PETRUCCI, Breve storia della scrittura latina, Bagatto Libri, Roma, 1992
Due articoli tra i seguenti:
G. CAVALLO, Storia della lettura nel mondo occidentale, a cura di G. Cavallo e R. Chartier, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995 (Introduzione, pp. V-XLIV; Tra “volumen” e “codex”. La lettura nel mondo romano, pp. 37-69).
G. CAVALLO, Libri scritti, libri letti, libri dimenticati, in Il secolo di ferro: mito e realtà del secolo X (Spoleto, 19-25 aprile 1990), Spoleto, Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, 1991 (Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, 38), pp. 759-794.
G. CAVALLO, Le biblioteche nel mondo antico e medievale, a cura di G. Cavallo, Roma – Bari, Laterza, 1988 (Biblioteca Universale Laterza, 250) (Introduzione, pp. VII-XXXI; Scuola, scriptorium, biblioteca a Cesarea. Una messa a punto, pp. 67-78).
Alfabetismo e cultura scritta , a cura di A. Bartoli Langeli e A. Petrucci, Bologna, Il mulino, 1978, articoli scelti
A.PETRUCCI, Aspetti simbolici delle testimonianze scritte, in Simboli e simbologia nell’alto medioevo (Spoleto, 3-9 aprile 1975), Spoleto, Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, 1976 (Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, 23), pp. 813-846

Teaching methods

lectures with examples of writings that will be distributed by the teacher, seminars, visits to Libraries and Archives.

Methods of evaluation

Type of exam:

Orale

how learning is assessed:

The examination will consist of an interview with the topics covered in class and reading graphic examples chosen among those examined with the teacher in class

Assessment:

Voto Finale

Course schedule

Course start date:

Lunedì, 17 Febbraio, 2014

Course end date:

Sabato, 7 Giugno, 2014

More Information

lesson hours: Mon, Tue, Wed 14-16. The lessons will start on March 3, 2014 and end May 7, 2014. Student Reception: Tue, 16-17 at studio teacher

Other courses

Course year: 1

ARCHIVAL SCIENCE
9 credits - Characteristic of the class
CLASSICAL ARCHEOLOGY
9 credits - Characteristic of the class
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY I
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY II
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
HISTORY AND METHODOLOGIES OF ETHNO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL DISCIPLINES
9 credits - Basic
HISTORY OF THE THEATER
6 credits - Supplementary
HISTORY OF THE THEATER:PERSPECTIVES, THEORY AND METODOLOGY
6 credits - Supplementary
ITALIAN LITERATURE
12 credits - Basic
ITALIAN LITERATURE
12 credits - Basic
LATIN PALEOGRAPHY A
9 credits - Characteristic of the class
PRELIMINARY LANGUAGE TEST
A foreign language/final examination
ROMAN HISTORY
6 credits - Supplementary
ROMAN HISTORY
6 credits - Supplementary
TEST OF COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH – B1
3 credits - A foreign language/final examination

Course year: 2

APPLIED INFORMATICS
3 credits - Various educational activities
CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE I
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE II
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
GREEK HISTORY
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
HISTORY OF HISTORIOGRAPHY
9 credits - Characteristic of the class
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
9 credits - Basic
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
9 credits - Basic
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS AND HISTORY OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE
12 credits
LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
9 credits - Basic
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
MEDIEVAL HISTORY II
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
PRELIMINARY TEST OF LATIN LANGUAGE
A foreign language/final examination

Course year: 3

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MEDIEVAL HISTORY
9 credits - Characteristic of the class
FINAL EXAMINATION
9 credits - A foreign language/final examination
GENDER HISTORY
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
GEOGRAPHY
9 credits - Supplementary
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
9 credits - Characteristic of the class
MODERN HISTORY IIIA
6 credits - Characteristic of the class

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