Università Roma Tre

Main themes of medieval history: the end of the western roman empire; barbarian kingdoms; Lombards and Byzantines in Italy; from frankish kingdoms to carolingian empire; christianity during the early Middle Ages: bishops and monks; manors, fiefs and the rural lordship; agrarian economy and commercial development (from 9th to 13th century); Church reform in the 11th century; italian communes; european western kingdoms, from 11th to 13th century; culture, church and religious experiences in the late Middle Ages; the Crisis of the 14th century; early modern state in Italy and Europe.

G. Albertoni, S. M. Collavini, T. Lazzari, Introduzione alla storia medievale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2020 (with digital materials); G. Sergi, L'idea di Medioevo. Fra storia e senso comune, Rome, Donzelli, 1998; and V. Loré, R. Rao, Medioevo da manuale. Una ricognizione della storia medievale nei manuali scolastici italiani, in RM Rivista, 18/2 (2017), pp. 305-313 (scaricabile gratuitamente: http://www.rmojs.unina.it/index.php/rm/article/view/5353).

The End of Lombard Kingdom. Politics and Society in 8th Century.
Main themes of this course: political activity of Desiderius, the last lombard King; Power and Society, Monasteries and Aristocracy; principal typologies of sources about the years 750s-770s in Lombard Italy.

S. Gasparri, Desiderio, Rome, Salerno, 2019; V. Loré, Monasteri, re e duchi: modelli di relazione fra VIII e X secolo, in Monachesimi d’Oriente e d’Occidente nell’alto medioevo, Spoleto, Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 2017, pp. 947-983; dossier of Medieval Sources (to be translated and contextualized) or alternatively S. Gasparri, Italia longobarda. Il regno, i Franchi, il papato, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012.