Università Roma Tre

First part - Subject of the course: The Images of Jesus of Edessa: origins and development of a legend from late antiquity to the Middle Ages

The course aimes to retrace the complex history of the icon of Christ from Edessa through the critical analysis of a selection of literary (Greek, Sirian, Latin and Paleoslavic) and iconographical sources.

Students attending the course a required to write a short essay on one aspect of the legend.

Bibliography:

For students attending the course:
- A. Nicolotti, Dal Mandylion di Edessa alla Sindone di Torino. Metamorfosi di una leggenda [Collana di studi del Centro di scienze religiose 3], Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso 20152

For students who do not attend the course:
- A. Nicolotti, Dal Mandylion di Edessa alla Sindone di Torino. Metamorfosi di una leggenda [Collana di studi del Centro di scienze religiose 3], Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso 20152

One texts among the following:
- E. Kitzinger, Il culto delle immagini. L'arte bizantina dal cristianesimo delle origini all'Iconoclastia, trad. it. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1992
- E. Fogliadini, Il volto di Cristo: gli acherotipi del Salvatore nella tradizione dell’Oriente cristiano, Milano, Jaca Book,2011.
- M. Illert, Die Abgarlegende. Das Christusbild von Edessa, Turnhout, Brepols 2007 (con traduzione in tedesco della più completa rassegna di testi).

Five centuries from the Protestant Reform: sources and historiographies

In the Christianity history the Lutheran reform was an event that divides the Occidental Europe. About its motivations and its incidence on the religious, political and social future history the historians have built many interpretations, studying the abundant sources about the first period of Luther’s rebellion, but also the reactions of the Roman ecclesiastical authorities. The course will analyse several sources produced in Lutheran entourage, in the civil entourage and in the catholic ecclesiastical entourage and understand them in the light of various historiographical lectures elaborated during the centuries.
We will try to give students the ability to read and interpret critically historical essays and deepen its historiographical debates, in order to provide them with methodological expertise to independently develop their own research paths, analyzing scientifically the sources and its historiography. held methodological lessons and practical exercises of research, of discussion of the historiography and of use of tools and aids.
For attending students the teacher'll do another bibliographical notices during the lessons. It is recommended to those who have never supported an examination on the early modern history of Christianity to provide themselves with a manual.
In the academic year 2018-2019 the course will be about the History of Christianity in Modern Age.

Texts

- Dossier of documents provided from the teacher;
- GUIDO DALL’OLIO, Martin Lutero, Roma, Carocci, 2013 (Frecce, 167);
- Sola grazia. I testi essenziali della Riforma protestante, a cura di GIUSEPPE ALBERIGO, nuova edizione a cura di DOMENICO SEGNA, Milano, Garzanti, 2017 (I grandi libri dello spirito), pp. 79-204; 259-272.