Università Roma Tre

Outlines of the Church history in early modern age (XIV-XVIII century)

The course will provide a basic knowledge of the principal events and problems on the Church history in the early modern and modern age, also in connection with another religious confessions. It will pay particular attention to the space-time placement of the discussed subjects, to the exact terminology and to the religious institutions’ significance and role. It will pay particular attention to the discipline’s technical language, the discussed subjects’ contextualization, the principal religious institutions’ significance and role, the interactions with the society and the culture.
In order to introduce the students to the literature and documents’ critical approach, it will confront the historiographical debates and it will spend much time for documents’ reading and comment about the discussed subjects also with use of the maps, graphics and iconographic sources and another audiovisual tools.
In the academic year 2018-2019 the course will be about the Church History in Modern Age.

Texts:
- Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from personal website).
- G. MARTINA, Storia della Chiesa da Lutero ai nostri giorni. 1. L'età della Riforma, Brescia, Morcelliana, 1993, pp. 15-28; 55-275.
- G. MARTINA, Storia della Chiesa da Lutero ai nostri giorni. 2. L'età dell'assolutismo, Brescia, Morcelliana, 1994, pp. 13-208; 259-371.
The students that frequent the lessons will have other information during the course.