Corso di laurea in Storia

The course aims to provide with tools and useful methods in order to understand the fundamental turning points and the most relevant problems of the history of Christianity and the Churches between XVI and XXI century, following its development in a perspective which is diacronic and oriented to the permanent comparison with the evolution of the political, social, cultural, artistic history in the modern and contemporary age.

a) Knowledge and ability of understanding: ability to understand and to operate an appropriate periodization of the phenomena and the fundamental turning points of the history of the Christianity and the Churches;

b) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: ability to read and to interpret a document (archival or literary source, text, image) concerning the history of the Christianity and the Churches with proper modalities of contextualization;

c) Autonomy of judgment: acquisition of the fundamental methodological tools of the discipline and awareness of their evolution in the course of time, with a full perception of the dynamics of the historiographical debate;
d) communicative skills: improvement of the ability to understand and to use a proper terminology, with particular reference to the ecclesiastical institutions and religious life in the catholic, protestant, orthodox world;

e) Ability of learning: acquisition of the fundamental lexical tools of the discipline and possibility to use them in respect to the various cases of study

The knowledges and the expected abilities will be tested through an oral exam with questions concerning also the comment of the readings made in the classroom. The preparation will be judged (with grade expressed in thirtieth) if the student will show ability in chronological and thematic contextualization, in possession of the historiographical lexicon, in autonomy in to establish connections among the treated themes

1) Christianity and Churches in the first modern age, between renewal and Reformation;

2) The rift of the Christianity and the birth of the territorial churches;

3) the Council of Trent and the Counter Reformation 

4) the evolution of the ecclesiastical institutions and the religious life in Baroque age

5) the relationships between the Christian Churches and the political powers

6) hagiography, religiousness, cults and devotions

7) The Churches and the modernity

8) the secularization and the difficult relationships with the societies in transformation

9) rifts and conciliations in contemporary age;

10) The Christian Churches from the Nine hundred to today

For the attending students:

Notes of the lessons, integrated by the reading of one of the followings two volumes (optionallly by the student):

a) Storia del cristianesimo (l’età moderna, secoli XVI-XVIII), a cura di V. Lavenia (Carocci, Roma, 2015);

b) Storia del cristianesimo (l’età contemporanea, secoli XIX-XX), a cura di G. Vian (Carocci, Roma, 2015);

For the not attending students:

a) G.L. Potestà  -  G. Vian, Storia del cristianesimo (Bologna, Il Mulino, ed. 2011 o 2014), limitatamente alle pp. 273-455 (dal capitolo “tra conciliarismo e monarchia papale” al capitolo “Le Chiese verso il terzo millennio”)

b) a pair of books optionally among the following options:

b.1): E. Bonora, La Controriforma, Bari-Roma, Laterza 2009 (pp. 143); P. Cozzo, Andate in pace. Parroci e parrocchie in Italia dal Concilio di Trento a Papa Francesco, Roma Carocci 2014 (pp. 239);

b.2) O. Niccoli, La vita religiosa nell’Italia moderna (secoli XV-XVIII), Carocci Roma 2011 (pp. 275); V. Lavenia Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, EDB, Bologna 2014 (pp. 124);

b.3) G. Battelli, Società, Stato e Chiesa in Italia dal tardo Settecento a oggi, Roma, Carocci 2013 (pp. 207); P. Chenaux, Il Concilio Vaticano II, Carocci, Roma, Carocci 2012, (pp. 189);

b.4) R. Rusconi, Papi santi, Brescia, Morcelliana 2014, pp. 194; E. Fattorini, Italia devota: religiosità e culti tra Otto e Novecento, Roma, Carocci 2012, pp. 193.

b.5) B. Gariglio, I cattolici dal Risorgimento a Benedetto XVI: un percorso dal Piemonte all'Italia, Morcelliana, Brescia 2013 (pp.  208);G. Vian, Il modernismo: la Chiesa cattolica in conflitto con la modernità, Roma, Carocci 2012 (p. 186).