HSY3025 - Beyond Machiavelli: Crisis and renewal in Early Modern Italy
6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate Faculty of Arts
Leader(s): Carolyn James
Offered
Not offered in 2009
Synopsis
As for HSY2025
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
- Engage in critical discussion about the most important social, cultural and religious changes which occurred in Italy during the period.
- Understand the various political systems in Italy in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century.
- Identify different genres of texts circulating in the period.
- Engage in critical discussion of texts in relation to the urban context of early modern Italy and to speculate about the relationship between particular political systems and cultural production.
- Analyse the processes which underpinned the construction of particular texts.
- Suggest ways in which literary texts and works of art can be used as historical evidence.
- Formulate and develop an independent research project focused on the critical analysis of a relevant primary text (either in Italian or English translation).
Assessment
Oral presentation: 10%
Participation: 10%
Written work: 50%
In class test: 30%
Prerequisites
A first year sequence in history (or with permission) or first year Italian
Prohibitions
13 October 2017
22 December 2024