Programmi

Lecturers/Professors:	SANGALLI Maurizio
Educational activities:	HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURES
Academic discipline:	HIST-04/A
Teaching hours:	36
Course hours:	36
Credits:	6
Teaching period:	1° semestre
Course Title: Course content:	Francis of Assisi: a biography, many biographies. Francis's interpretations after Francis's death. The Church of Rome in the late Middle Ages, heretical movements and new religious orders. The various branches of the Franciscan family within the history of the Mendicant orders, between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. Echoes and reception of Francis's message between the Middle Ages and the Contemporary Era, from religion to politics to society.
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Course books:	Per studenti frequentanti A. Musarra, Il mondo secondo Francesco d'Assisi, il Mulino, Bologna 2026 Pensare Francesco. Storia, memoria e uso politico, a cura di V. De Cesaris, D. Menozzi, A. Possieri, A. Roccucci, il Mulino, Bologna 2025 Per studenti non frequentanti G. Miccoli, Francesco. Il santo di Assisi all'origine dei movimenti francescani, Donzelli, Roma 2013
Teaching Methods:	Frontal lectures, with the use of maps, graphs and images useful for a better understanding of the topics addressed and with the reading of sources and texts. Attendance is strongly recommended.
Learning Objectives:	The student will be helped to know the crucial moments of the history of the activity of the Roman Catholic Church and the religious orders, particularly Franciscans, from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era. He/She will have to be able to outline, through the clarification of some cornerstones of the history and the activity of the Catholic Church, the institutional, economical, social and religious panoramas of medieval, early modern and contemporary Italy, having the possibility to distinguish between sources and bibliography. He/She will be asked to assess how and to which extent the crucial phases of the medieval, early modern and contemporary religious Italian history have been the result of a complex intertwining of cultural, economical, religious and social phenomena, and this through the learning of a specific vocabulary which is suitable to examine the key events of the medieval and early-modern periods, giving the temporal and geographical coordinates. He/She will be helped to understand the different phases of the evolution of the religious Italian history, between XIIIth and XXth centuries, and to assess how and to which extent the activity of the Franciscans have affected the socio-political and religious Italian life.
Expected Learning Outcomes and Assessment Methods:	Oral exam
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