Unit MEDIEVAL ARCHEOLOGY
- Course
- Archaeology and history of art
- Study-unit Code
- A001627
- Curriculum
- Generico
- Teacher
- Donatella Scortecci
- Teachers
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- Donatella Scortecci
- Hours
- 36 ore - Donatella Scortecci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Archeologia e antichità classiche e medievali
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course has as its objective the achievement of basic knowledge of the most up-to-date trends of research in the field of Medieval archaeology and contemporary near eastern (Byzantine and Islam) with particular attention to the phenomena relating to the formation of the medieval culture. Specifically, the course will address all issues characterizing the discipline, methodological issues, such as theoretical archaeology, broad spectrum aspects of research, such as urban archaeology and town planning; the transformation of rural areas and the phenomenon of incastellamento; funerary archaeology with its implications on the anthropological level; Christian cult buildings and large monastic complexes; the archaeology of architecture and archaeology and artifacts.
- Reference texts
- MANUALE
A.Augenti, Archeologia dell'Italia Medievale, Bari, Laterza, 2016.
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- The course has as its objective the achievement of basic knowledge of the most up-to-date trends of research in the field of Medieval archaeology and contemporary of the Near East. The student will prove like he acquired the ability to develop independently and developed critical sense and speculative the definition of a "cultural object", according to institutional policies: from concepts of integrity and authenticity that relate to preservation and veracity of information, descriptive capacity, constitutive elements analysis, comparison of homogeneous types, sessions, diachronic variations, cultural contribution.
- Prerequisites
- It is essential that the student has acquired methodological skills and a solid foundation in the knowledge of historical and archaeological disciplines of classical and medieval historian, with particular regard to late Antiquity and the early middle ages.
- Teaching methods
- Come previsto dalla nota del Ministro dell'Università e Ricerca relativa alla fase 3 (settembre2020-gennaio 2021), fermo restando ogni altro eventuale cambiamento comunicato dalle autorità competenti, si farà ricorso alla didattica blended (in presenza e in telepresenza contemporaneamente) con modalità sincrona e/o asincrona
- Other information
- Attending students will have the possibility of individual programs agreed with the teacher
- Learning verification modality
- The assessment provides a test whose objective is to make the learning of fundamental issues of discipline and the ability to establish comparisons, synchronic criteria diacronici and surveying instruments.The student will demonstrate that it can process the matter through a rigorous scientific methodology, which takes account of the proper use of documentary sources and materials.The test consists of an oral interview and the presentation of individual seminars by the students on the course topics. The timing see a first stage of verification issues and a second job verification indiviale. The duration is not more than 30 minutes, 15/20 reserved general verification and ten to the report of the seminar.The type of test is represented by a stimulus with a reply. The final measurement examination test gives two-thirds of the General test score and a third working seminar.
- Extended program
- The programme includes a General first part devoted to fundamental problems of medieval Archaeology.A part of the course is reserved for relationships with the architecture and the institutions.You pass, then, the most important Italian archaeological contexts, according to a thematic policy.The relationship between medieval history archeologist of the city refer several issues, from those related to prevention and to the drafting of risk cards, to those more institutional legal and economic, until the most recent debate on urban archaeology, with examples of Brescia and Verona to the North of the Crypta Balbi and the excavations of Naples for the Central and South Italy. By urban contexts you pass to the study of the castles, and the rural population incastellamento..The relationship between archaeology and history of mentality is the subject of dedicated necropolis which addresses the ambiguous relationship between indigenous rituality and alien cultural influences with examples of Longobard necropolis of Nocera Umbra and Castel Trosino.The study of rural settlement concerns the monastic complexes theme imported, culture centers, power generators and inhabited. The most important Longobard monastery of San Salvatore in Brescia and San Vincenzo al Volturno.The archaeology of churches is one of the most investigated themes from medieval Archaeology in the terms of architectural sequence of burials, materials, site development. Examples: the building of Santa Maria foris portas in Castelseprio, San Lorenzo di Altavilla Silentina. The archaeology of residential housing occupies the structures, in particular the research typology of structures, materials used and the forms of reuse, with examples of Brescia, Luni, class, Pisa.Finally one of the most innovative aspects of medieval Archaeology covers the production and archaeology artifacts as knowledge of subregional sequences, the diachronic readings of certain phenomena, and productive aspects of work organisation, the problem of transmission technology. Examples in ceramics, glass, wood, metal.