Ateneo - UPO

Chronicles of the Fourth Crusade

Geoffroy de Villehardouin, La conquête de Constantinople, chronologie et préface par Jean Dufournet. Garnier-Flammarion, Paris 1969
Geoffroy de Villehardouin, La conquista di Costantinopoli; introduzione, traduzione e note di Fausta Garavini, Boringhieri, Torino 1962 (Enciclopedia di autori classici 68); rist. Milano 2008
Robert de Clari. La Conquête de Constantinople (Pars 1924) ed. Philippe Lauer
Niceta Coniata, Grandezza e catastrofe di Bisanzio. Volume III (Libri 15-19 - De Statuis), a cura e con un commento di Anna Pontani; testo critico di Jan-Louis van Dieten; traduzione di Anna e Filippomaria Pontani, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2014

The primary objective is to make students acquire the ability to analyze medieval texts, establishing links with the concepts learned in the graduate courses, in order to learn the basic rules of historical research.

Having taken the examinations of Medieval History A and B.

Seminar meetings, with active involvement of students in reading and analyzing the source.

The course requires mandatory attendance and active participation.

The final exam includes an oral examination lasting about 30 minutes. The aim is to verify the full command of the notions presented among the objectives and the expected cultural outcome through an examination including questions on the main problems treated in the course, in order to verify: 1. the acquisition of a critical capacity in the analysis of problems, 2. the acquisition of a critical capacity in the use of sources, 3. the use of appropriate scientific terminology, 4. the ability to establish links between the topics. Points will be awarded in percentages: 1. 30%; 2. 30%; 3. 20%; 4 10%; 5. 10%. Honors will be awarded on the basis of an assessment of accuracy, depth of analysis and ability to process knowledge.

The program comprehends reading and analyzing the chronicles by Geoffroy de Villehardouin, Robert de Clari and Niketas Coniates about the IVth Crusade and the fall of Constantinople in 1204

Basic level: students should acquire a solid knowledge about the main issues of the history of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of Constantinople.
Advanced level: students should be able to show a professional approach to the analysis of historiography and sources about the history of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of Constantinople.