History, Anthropology, Religions

GIOIA PARADISI

The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the methodological, critical and applicable aspects of the Discipline; it proposes geographical areas and sectorial perspectives in which related projects are activated; it shows the variability of fields of interest; it enables the student to master the specific topics in order to use them and apply them in other fields of study while using the correct specific language. With the acquired knowledge the student will be able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical epochs and cultural contexts.

The Fundamentals of Philology and Romance Linguistics lectures aim to provide students of History, Anthropology and Religions, and Historical-Artistic Studies with a basic course in Philology for historians. The objective of the module is to introduce students to the study of philology as a historical discipline aimed at the care, preservation and dissemination of texts in relation to the critical study of the notions of “Author”, “Text”, “Authentic”, “Apocryphal”, “True”, “False” and the acquisition of the fundamental principles of textual criticism and the essential characteristics of the various types of editions. Students will acquire the content and knowledge proposed by the examination programme, relating to philology applied to the study of history and art history.

No curricular prerequisites.

The programme, aimed at students of the degree courses in Historical-Artistic Studies and History, Anthropology and
Religions, offers the acquisition of philological skills in relation to three specific areas:
a) the concepts of “author”, “text”, “true”, “false”, “authentic”, “apocryphal”;
b) Marc Bloch's “Apologia of History”, excerpts of which will be read in class and studied as a philological problem;
c) the relationship between text and image, with reference to examples taken from medieval narrative cycles and their artistic representations.

in order to pass the exam, students must have studied:
1) Alberto Varvaro, Prima lezione di filologia, Laterza, Rome-Bari 2012 (2023);
2) Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia, Italian translation, Einaudi, Turin, 2009 (including the Preface and
Introduction, which are useful for an introduction to the philological problem represented by the text);
3) M. Mastrogregori, Introduzione a Bloch, Editori Laterza, Bari-Rome 2001;
4) chapters III and IV of M. L. Meneghetti, Storie al muro. Temi e personaggi della letteratura
profana nell'arte occidentale, Einaudi, Turin 2015 (the chapters will be made
available on the platform).

The study texts are already listed under Programme.

Lectures and seminar classes.

Recommended frequency.

Oral examination with questions on the programme.

Questions about the programme. There is no need to provide examples.

• The course comprises three teaching units: 1) Philology and textual criticism, 2) The "Apologia della storia" as a philological problem, 3) Philology of images. The lessons will follow an order that takes into account the students' reception and the needs expressed by the class in relation to the explanation of the various topics.