MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

MM046

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in CULTURAL HERITAGE: ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ART

Disciplinary Sector:

Mediaeval History

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PACIOCCO Roberto

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

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Objectives

An example of historical reasoning skills to promote students’ acquaintance with the research methods concerning the medieval sources and the medieval history, with special reference to the history of papacy, the mendicant orders and the sanctity.

Contents

The case of Ambrogio da Massa: Roman-canonical process and canonizations of saints in the first half of the thirteenth century.

Extended Syllabus

Canonization processes and sanctity in the Middle Ages. The Franciscans and the Papacy. The case of Ambrogio da Massa and his "negotium imperfectum" (1240). The roll R3, Orvieto, Sezione di Archivio di Stato, and the edition of the Ambriogio's canonization process. The new edition and the related new historiographical conclusions.

Recommended Bibliography

A) R. PACIOCCO, Il “negotium imperfectum” per Ambrogio da Massa (1240-1257). Con l’edizione del rotolo processuale per la canonizzazione (Orvieto, Sezione di Archivio di Stato, R 3), Spoleto, CISAM, 2018.
B) R. PACIOCCO, Canonizzazioni e culto dei santi nella “Christianitas” (1198-1302), Assisi-S. Maria degli Angeli 2006 (Medioevo francescano. Saggi, 11), pp. 1-163.
C) Students who do not attend lectures must study the following book, too: A. VAUCHEZ, La santità nel medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009 (Storica paperbacks).

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons with slides in order to improve learning.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination.

Contacts/More Information

Frontal lessons will take place intensively for six hours a week; any absence of the lecturer due to cultural and academic commitments will be communicated in advance to students. Non-attending students are warmly recommended to contact the professor personally and not only by e-mail.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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