Storia Moderna - L'Europa e il mondo nella prima età moderna. Problemi, oggetti, metodi (PhD)
Prerequisiti
Undergraduate and PhD
Programma
Session 1
04/02/2027
The Renaissance, Europe, knowledge. Historiographical debates and sources
Readings
Eugenio Garin, Rinascite e rivoluzioni, Bari, Laterza, 1975
Jack Goody, Renaissances: The One or the Many?, Cambridge, CUP, 2010
Sessione 2
08/02/2027
Naming and locating : Europe and its Indies
Readings
Jean-Marc Besse, Les grandeurs de la terre, Lyon, Ens, 203
A. Romano, "Ce que l’histoire globale fait à la « révolution scientifique », ou la fin d’un grand récit et ses multiples conséquences", Rivista storica italiana, 2020/2, p. 542-568.
A. Romano, “D’Orient en Orients: à l’est de Rome, du nouveau“, Cuadernos de historia moderna, 43(2), 2023, p. 387-416
Sessione 3
Martedi 9/02 pm
Naming and classifying : plants, animals, things
Readings
Alix Cooper, Inventing the Indigenous. Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe, CUP, 2007.
Paula De Vos, "Methodological challenges involved in compiling the Nahua pharmacopeia", History of Science, 55/2, 2017, p. 210-233.
Elisa Andretta, « La Metallotheca "musée ouvert"? Logiques et politiques de collection du monde minéral dans la Rome du XVIe siècle », Enquête, 2026.
Sessione 4
Giovedi 11/02 pm
A new continent
Readings
Nobel David Cook, "The Columbian Exchange", dans Bentley JH, Subrahmanyam S,
Wiesner-Hanks ME, eds., The Cambridge World History, vol 6.2, Cambridge University Press, 2015, p. 103-134.
Elisa Andretta, José Pardo Tomas, “La naturaleza en la biblioteca: los herbarios de El Escorial y las colecciones de Diego Hurtado de Mendoza”, Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, vol. 48, n° 1, 2023, págs. 37-56
Sessione 5
Jeudi 18/02 pm
Eurasia
Readings
Antonella Romano, Impressions de Chine. L’Europe et l’englobement du monde (16e-17e siècles), Paris, Fayard, 2016 (traduction italienne, Rome, Viella, 2020), Introduction + chap. 2.
Jorge Flores, Empire of Contingency. How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024, Introduction + chap. 6.
Sessione 6
Lunedi 22/02 pm
Urban Knowledge and the Making of the World. Rome
Readings
Bert De Munck, Antonella Romano (dir.), « Knowledge and the Early Modern City: An Introduction », dans B. De Munck, A. Romano, Knowledge and the Early Modern City. A History of Entanglements, Routledge, 2019, p. 1-20*
Elisa Andretta, Romain Descendre, Antonella Romano (dir.), Un mondo di Relazioni. Giovanni Botero e i saperi nella Roma del Cinquecento, Rome, Viella, 2021, introduction*
Elisa Andretta, Antonella Romano (dir.), « Horizons orientaux des savoirs romains sur le monde du XVIe siècle », Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, vol. 48/2, 2023*
Sessione 7
Giovedi 25/02 pm
Times and Spaces of the World: The Reform of the Calendar
Obiettivi formativi
The aim of the course is to encourage students to reflect on global history. Global approaches and global studies have been insistingly present in the concerns and ambitions of most of the social and human sciences, and history in particular, for more than thirty years now. A number of elaborations have been offered as possible theoretical frames and guidelines for future studies. Despite such efforts, no convincing stabilization of the field, its terms, and its rules has prevailed for the times being. Global history remains a debated topic as well as a constantly and fast evolving project. This seminar does not pretend to add one more view or definition to the many existing ones. It rather focuses on the close relation between a specific period, the so-called Renaissance, and its possible reconceptualistions and understanding in a jeu d’échelles where the world could be framed at global scale.
This seminar will enable participants to develop a reflective approach through the cross-reading of sources and the study of some historiographical debates that have taken shape in this field.