Course identifiers: MA RETD-TR-315:3 and BMA-TÖRD-SEC 19M/1

Level: MA

Title of course: Microhistory of Italy from the Renaissance to the 18th century (for students reading in English)

Teacher: István Szijártó

Time and venue: Tuesday 14.00-15.30, Múzeum krt. 6-8. 268.

Language: Hungarian

Programme:

  1. 9 February: Introduction of the course and discussion of the semester’s programme.
  2. 16 February: Claire Judde de Larivière: La révolte des boules de neige. Murano face à Venise, 1511. Fayard, 2014.
  3. 23 Februar:. Thomas V. Cohen: Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago–London, 2004. 1–42. Introduction and Chapter 1: Double Murder in Cretone Castle.
  4. 1 March: Thomas V. Cohen: Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago–London, 2004. 43–70. Chapter 2: Lost Love and a Handkerchief.
  5. 8 March: Pasquale Palmieri: The Saint, the Miracles, and the Revolution. A Story of Politics and Devotion. Manuscript. Introduction and Chapter 1.; Angelo Torre: The Miracle of Asti and the Construction of a Religious Centre in the Early Modern Period. In: Susanne Rau und Gerd Schwerhoff (ed.): Topographien des Sakralen. Religion und Raumordnung in der Vormoderne. Dölling ung Galitz Verlag: München, 2008. 134–155.
  6. 22 March: Thomas V. Cohen: Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago–London, 2004. 71–123. Chapter 3: The Last Will of Vittoria Giustini.
  7. 5 April: Thomas V. Cohen: Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago–London, 2004. 125–170. Chapter 4: This Is My Dowry: The Vile Loves of Persecutor Pallentieri.
  8. 12 April: Thomas V. Cohen: Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago–London, 2004. 171–197. Chapter 5: The Lady Lives, the Pigeon Dies.
  9. 3 May: Angelo Torre: Ritual and Jurisdiction in Northern Italy (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries). In: Margo Kitts – Bernd Schneidermüller – Gerald Schwedler et al. (eds.): Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual. Vol. III: State, Power, and Violence. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2010. 317-346.; Raffaella Bruzzone: From the Leaf to the Page. Manuscript.
  10. 10 May: Thomas V. Cohen: Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago–London, 2004. 199–227. Chapter 6: Three In a Bed: The Seduction of Innocentia.
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