Università Roma Tre

Teaching Unit I - 6 credits (36 hours) Exploration and geographical knowledge from ancient to modern

The concepts of geographic horizon and geographical discovery. Travel and Geography in ancient and medieval times. The medieval nautical cartography. The maritime republics. Spain and Portugal from the Middle Ages and Modern Age. The Portuguese on the route to India. Great geographical discoveries: premises and consequences. Humanism and Renaissance. The XVI century. The Illuminismo. The “construction” of geographical science in the nineteenth century. The modern exploration. The history of discovery and its exploitation. The Geography and contemporary society.

Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Al di là di altrove, Milano, Mursia, 2024.

Teaching Unit II - 6 credits (36 hours) Travels and geography: from homination to space exploration

The materials on the CD-ROM attached to the manual (Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Al di là di altrove, Milano, Mursia, 2007) allow to deepen the historical and social processes analyzed in the basic module. Essays, taking the structure of the manual, reconstruct migration, travel and exploration, trade and commercial networks, the circulation of people, goods and ideas between the various continents, as well as the biographies and works of the protagonists of the expansion of the geographical horizon from prehistory to the present day.

List of appendices to the chapters “Beyond Elsewhere” on which the exam will focus (see above).

Teaching Unit II - 6 credits (36 hours) Travels and geography: from homination to space exploration

The materials on the CD-ROM attached to the manual (Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Al di là di altrove, Milano, Mursia, 2007) allow to deepen the historical and social processes analyzed in the basic module. Essays, taking the structure of the manual, reconstruct migration, travel and exploration, trade and commercial networks, the circulation of people, goods and ideas between the various continents, as well as the biographies and works of the protagonists of the expansion of the geographical horizon from prehistory to the present day.

List of appendices to the chapters “Beyond Elsewhere” that will be covered in the exam (see above).