Università Roma Tre

The course aims to offer a general knowledge of the fundamental lines of the modern history from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth and to deepen its critical-interpretative learning through some historiographical itineraries on specific topics and the study of social, economic, political and cultural aspects that connect the Modern Age with the contemporary world.
Specifically, the following topics will be covered:
Crisis of Italian States in the XVI century
Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Religious crisis in Italy in the XVI century
Economic growth, social structure of modern Europe and the origins of globalization
Extra european worlds: asiatic and latin american empires
Imperial Spain between the XVI and XVII centuries
The Holland in the XVII century
Formation of the modern State in Europe
English revolutions
French Revolution.

A. Aubert - P. Simoncelli, Storia moderna. Dalla formazione degli Stati nazionali alle egemonie inernazionali, Bari, Cacucci, 2001 (tranne il capitolo XVI)

Moreover, students will need to choose one of the following books:

J. E. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale (1469-1716), Bologna, Il Mulino, 1982

A. De Benedictis, Politica, governo e istituzioni nell'Europa moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001

M. Mancino – G. Romeo, Clero criminale. L’onore della Chiesa e i delitti degli ecclesiastici nell’Italia della Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2013

A. Aubert, La crisi degli antichi stati italiani (1492-1521), Firenze, Le Lettere, 2003