The aim of the course is to promote the acquisition of historical notions, historical-literary knowledge, linguistic-philological skills and methodological tools that allow students of the master's degree to draw on the heritage of Byzantine culture and to deal with texts first hand, with particular attention to what concerns the millennial story of conservation, elaboration and transmission of the classical tradition in Byzantium.
Curriculum
scheda docente
materiale didattico
The Byzantine Philology LM module, aimed at students of Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity, will be devoted to a careful reading of the most relevant sources - from both a historical and a specifically polytheoretical point of view - of the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453.
The course will first provide a brief historical summary of the Byzantine millennium, aimed at those who have not taken the basic module of Byzantine Civilisation in the three-year degree. It will then offer a topographical survey of the Polis and attempt, on the basis of literary and documentary sources, a new reconstruction of the phases of the fifty-five-day siege that ended, at least politically, the eleven centuries of “Byzantine life” in Constantinople. It will propose a critical and comparative reading of the “official” narratives of both sides in the field, i.e. the Byzantine (George Sphrantzes, Ducas, Critobulus, Laonicus Chalcondyles) and the Western (Isidore of Kiev, Leonard of Chios, Niccolò Barbaro, Angelo Giovanni Lomellino, Ubertino Pusculo), as well as the Ottoman (Tursun Beg and Ibn Kemâl). The exegesis of this first group of sources will be flanked by the exploration of the lesser-known testimonies, which can rather be traced back to intelligence circles, precious above all for the reconstruction of the last hours of the siege and for understanding the political relations and economic interests of the Mediterranean geopolitical framework. This exegetical work will allow students to enter the research laboratory of the chair of Byzantine Studies at Roma Tre on the fall of Constantinople.
To conclude the course, presumably at the end of April, if the political circumstances in the Middle East permit, students will be offered an educational trip to Istanbul, organised in collaboration with Koç University, the Italian Cultural Institute and other official institutions in the Turkish capital. The main purpose of the stay will be to visit the main Byzantine monuments of the Polis and to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the lessons, as well as to offer them the opportunity to interact with their Turkish university colleagues.
- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
- A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976
Programma
1453: Notes from Underground (“La chute de Constantinople est un malheur personnel qui nous est arrivé la semaine dernière”, Antoine Bibesco)The Byzantine Philology LM module, aimed at students of Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity, will be devoted to a careful reading of the most relevant sources - from both a historical and a specifically polytheoretical point of view - of the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453.
The course will first provide a brief historical summary of the Byzantine millennium, aimed at those who have not taken the basic module of Byzantine Civilisation in the three-year degree. It will then offer a topographical survey of the Polis and attempt, on the basis of literary and documentary sources, a new reconstruction of the phases of the fifty-five-day siege that ended, at least politically, the eleven centuries of “Byzantine life” in Constantinople. It will propose a critical and comparative reading of the “official” narratives of both sides in the field, i.e. the Byzantine (George Sphrantzes, Ducas, Critobulus, Laonicus Chalcondyles) and the Western (Isidore of Kiev, Leonard of Chios, Niccolò Barbaro, Angelo Giovanni Lomellino, Ubertino Pusculo), as well as the Ottoman (Tursun Beg and Ibn Kemâl). The exegesis of this first group of sources will be flanked by the exploration of the lesser-known testimonies, which can rather be traced back to intelligence circles, precious above all for the reconstruction of the last hours of the siege and for understanding the political relations and economic interests of the Mediterranean geopolitical framework. This exegetical work will allow students to enter the research laboratory of the chair of Byzantine Studies at Roma Tre on the fall of Constantinople.
To conclude the course, presumably at the end of April, if the political circumstances in the Middle East permit, students will be offered an educational trip to Istanbul, organised in collaboration with Koç University, the Italian Cultural Institute and other official institutions in the Turkish capital. The main purpose of the stay will be to visit the main Byzantine monuments of the Polis and to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the lessons, as well as to offer them the opportunity to interact with their Turkish university colleagues.
Testi Adottati
MANDATORY TEXTS- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
- A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976
Bibliografia Di Riferimento
ADDITIONAL TEXTS TO BE CHOSEN AMONG N.B. IMPORTANT. Students who have not attended the course in any way, either in presence or remotely via Teams connection or in deferred listening (carefully) to the recordings on the module's Teams platform, must bring to the examination, in addition to the mandatory texts, one or two of the texts in category B. They must agree on these in advance with the teacher, even if only by email, so that the choice is congruent with their interests and course of study and functional to their Byzantine training. The use of oral lectures, in one of the three ways indicated above, is however strongly recommended: it is less tiring and gives better results. - A. Pertusi, Testi inediti e poco noti sulla caduta di Costantinopoli. Edizione postuma a c. di A. Carile, Pàtron, Bologna 1983 - A. Pertusi, Fine di Bisanzio e fine del mondo. Significato e ruolo storico delle profezie sulla caduta di Costantinopoli in Oriente e in Occidente. Edizione postuma a c. di E. Morini, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, Roma 1988 - S. Runciman, Gli ultimi giorni di Costantinopoli (trad. it.), Piemme, Casale Monferrato, 1997 - S. Ronchey, L’enigma di Piero, Milano, BUR, 2017 - S. Ronchey, Bisanzio veramente ‘volle cadere’? Realismo politico e avventura storica da Alessio I Comneno al Mediterraneo di Braudel, “Quaderni di Storia” 52 (luglio/dicembre 2000), pp. 137-158 - S. Ronchey, Il “salvataggio occidentale” di Bisanzio. Una lettera di Enea Silvio Piccolomini e l’allegoria pittorica di Bisanzio nel primo Rinascimento, in C.A. Maltezou e P. Schreiner (a cura di), Bisanzio, Venezia e il mondo franco-greco (XIII-XV secolo) (Atti del Colloquio Internazionale organizzato nel centenario della nascita di Raymond-Joseph Loenertz O.P., Venezia, 1-2 dicembre 2000), Venezia, Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini, 2002, pp. 125-150 e 529-544 - R. Maisano (a cura di), Giorgio Sfranze, Cronaca, Roma, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1990 - A. Codato (a cura di), Il diario dell’assedio di Costantinopoli di Nicolò Barbaro, Canterano, Aracne, 2017 - J.-L. Bacqué-Grammont – M. Bernardini – L. Berardi (a cura di), Tursun Bey, La conquista di Costantinopoli, Milano, Mondadori, 2007 - L. Silvano, Per l’epistolario di Isidoro di Kiev: la lettera a papa Niccolò V del 6 luglio 1453, “Medioevo greco” 13 (2013), pp. 223-240 - L. Silvano, Per l’epistolario di Isidoro di Kiev (II): la lettera al Doge Francesco Foscari dell’8 luglio 1453, “Orientalia Christiana Periodica” 84/1 (2018), pp. 99-132 - G. Olgiati, Angelo Giovanni Lomellino: attività politica e mercantile dell’ultimo podestà di Pera, in La storia dei Genovesi. Atti del convegno di studi sui ceti dirigenti nelle istituzioni della Repubblica di Genova (Genova, 7-10 giugno 1988), vol. IX, Genova, 1989, pp. 194-196 TEXTS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE - E. Pears, The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks, London 1903 - G. Schlumberger, Le siège de Constantinople en 1453, Plon, Paris 1922 - D.M. Nicol, The End of the Byzantine Empire, Edward Arnold Publishers, London 1979 - D.M. Nicol, The Immortal Emperor. The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans, Cambridge University Press, 1992 - R. Crowley, 1453. The Holy War for Constantinople and the Crash of Islam and the West, Hyperion, New York 2005 - C. Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650. The Structure of Power, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2002 - D. R. Reinsch (hrsg.), Critobuli Imbriotae Historiae, Berlin – New York, De Gruyter, 1983 - D. R. Reinsch (hrsg.), Dukas, Chronographia, Berlin – Boston, De Gruyter, 2020 - A. Kaldellis (ed.), Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, London – Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2014 (More texts to be studied in English, French and German could be decided together with the professor, who is happy to also help finding them in case of need.)Modalità Erogazione
In personModalità Frequenza
OptionalModalità Valutazione
Oral exam
scheda docente
materiale didattico
The Byzantine Philology LM module, aimed at students of Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity, will be devoted to a careful reading of the most relevant sources - from both a historical and a specifically polytheoretical point of view - of the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453.
The course will first provide a brief historical summary of the Byzantine millennium, aimed at those who have not taken the basic module of Byzantine Civilisation in the three-year degree. It will then offer a topographical survey of the Polis and attempt, on the basis of literary and documentary sources, a new reconstruction of the phases of the fifty-five-day siege that ended, at least politically, the eleven centuries of “Byzantine life” in Constantinople. It will propose a critical and comparative reading of the “official” narratives of both sides in the field, i.e. the Byzantine (George Sphrantzes, Ducas, Critobulus, Laonicus Chalcondyles) and the Western (Isidore of Kiev, Leonard of Chios, Niccolò Barbaro, Angelo Giovanni Lomellino, Ubertino Pusculo), as well as the Ottoman (Tursun Beg and Ibn Kemâl). The exegesis of this first group of sources will be flanked by the exploration of the lesser-known testimonies, which can rather be traced back to intelligence circles, precious above all for the reconstruction of the last hours of the siege and for understanding the political relations and economic interests of the Mediterranean geopolitical framework. This exegetical work will allow students to enter the research laboratory of the chair of Byzantine Studies at Roma Tre on the fall of Constantinople.
To conclude the course, presumably at the end of April, if the political circumstances in the Middle East permit, students will be offered an educational trip to Istanbul, organised in collaboration with Koç University, the Italian Cultural Institute and other official institutions in the Turkish capital. The main purpose of the stay will be to visit the main Byzantine monuments of the Polis and to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the lessons, as well as to offer them the opportunity to interact with their Turkish university colleagues.
- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
- A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976
Programma
1453: Notes from Underground (“La chute de Constantinople est un malheur personnel qui nous est arrivé la semaine dernière”, Antoine Bibesco)The Byzantine Philology LM module, aimed at students of Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity, will be devoted to a careful reading of the most relevant sources - from both a historical and a specifically polytheoretical point of view - of the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453.
The course will first provide a brief historical summary of the Byzantine millennium, aimed at those who have not taken the basic module of Byzantine Civilisation in the three-year degree. It will then offer a topographical survey of the Polis and attempt, on the basis of literary and documentary sources, a new reconstruction of the phases of the fifty-five-day siege that ended, at least politically, the eleven centuries of “Byzantine life” in Constantinople. It will propose a critical and comparative reading of the “official” narratives of both sides in the field, i.e. the Byzantine (George Sphrantzes, Ducas, Critobulus, Laonicus Chalcondyles) and the Western (Isidore of Kiev, Leonard of Chios, Niccolò Barbaro, Angelo Giovanni Lomellino, Ubertino Pusculo), as well as the Ottoman (Tursun Beg and Ibn Kemâl). The exegesis of this first group of sources will be flanked by the exploration of the lesser-known testimonies, which can rather be traced back to intelligence circles, precious above all for the reconstruction of the last hours of the siege and for understanding the political relations and economic interests of the Mediterranean geopolitical framework. This exegetical work will allow students to enter the research laboratory of the chair of Byzantine Studies at Roma Tre on the fall of Constantinople.
To conclude the course, presumably at the end of April, if the political circumstances in the Middle East permit, students will be offered an educational trip to Istanbul, organised in collaboration with Koç University, the Italian Cultural Institute and other official institutions in the Turkish capital. The main purpose of the stay will be to visit the main Byzantine monuments of the Polis and to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the lessons, as well as to offer them the opportunity to interact with their Turkish university colleagues.
Testi Adottati
MANDATORY TEXTS- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
- A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976
Bibliografia Di Riferimento
ADDITIONAL TEXTS TO BE CHOSEN AMONG N.B. IMPORTANT. Students who have not attended the course in any way, either in presence or remotely via Teams connection or in deferred listening (carefully) to the recordings on the module's Teams platform, must bring to the examination, in addition to the mandatory texts, one or two of the texts in category B. They must agree on these in advance with the teacher, even if only by email, so that the choice is congruent with their interests and course of study and functional to their Byzantine training. The use of oral lectures, in one of the three ways indicated above, is however strongly recommended: it is less tiring and gives better results. - A. Pertusi, Testi inediti e poco noti sulla caduta di Costantinopoli. Edizione postuma a c. di A. Carile, Pàtron, Bologna 1983 - A. Pertusi, Fine di Bisanzio e fine del mondo. Significato e ruolo storico delle profezie sulla caduta di Costantinopoli in Oriente e in Occidente. Edizione postuma a c. di E. Morini, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, Roma 1988 - S. Runciman, Gli ultimi giorni di Costantinopoli (trad. it.), Piemme, Casale Monferrato, 1997 - S. Ronchey, L’enigma di Piero, Milano, BUR, 2017 - S. Ronchey, Bisanzio veramente ‘volle cadere’? Realismo politico e avventura storica da Alessio I Comneno al Mediterraneo di Braudel, “Quaderni di Storia” 52 (luglio/dicembre 2000), pp. 137-158 - S. Ronchey, Il “salvataggio occidentale” di Bisanzio. Una lettera di Enea Silvio Piccolomini e l’allegoria pittorica di Bisanzio nel primo Rinascimento, in C.A. Maltezou e P. Schreiner (a cura di), Bisanzio, Venezia e il mondo franco-greco (XIII-XV secolo) (Atti del Colloquio Internazionale organizzato nel centenario della nascita di Raymond-Joseph Loenertz O.P., Venezia, 1-2 dicembre 2000), Venezia, Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini, 2002, pp. 125-150 e 529-544 - R. Maisano (a cura di), Giorgio Sfranze, Cronaca, Roma, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1990 - A. Codato (a cura di), Il diario dell’assedio di Costantinopoli di Nicolò Barbaro, Canterano, Aracne, 2017 - J.-L. Bacqué-Grammont – M. Bernardini – L. Berardi (a cura di), Tursun Bey, La conquista di Costantinopoli, Milano, Mondadori, 2007 - L. Silvano, Per l’epistolario di Isidoro di Kiev: la lettera a papa Niccolò V del 6 luglio 1453, “Medioevo greco” 13 (2013), pp. 223-240 - L. Silvano, Per l’epistolario di Isidoro di Kiev (II): la lettera al Doge Francesco Foscari dell’8 luglio 1453, “Orientalia Christiana Periodica” 84/1 (2018), pp. 99-132 - G. Olgiati, Angelo Giovanni Lomellino: attività politica e mercantile dell’ultimo podestà di Pera, in La storia dei Genovesi. Atti del convegno di studi sui ceti dirigenti nelle istituzioni della Repubblica di Genova (Genova, 7-10 giugno 1988), vol. IX, Genova, 1989, pp. 194-196 TEXTS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE - E. Pears, The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks, London 1903 - G. Schlumberger, Le siège de Constantinople en 1453, Plon, Paris 1922 - D.M. Nicol, The End of the Byzantine Empire, Edward Arnold Publishers, London 1979 - D.M. Nicol, The Immortal Emperor. The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans, Cambridge University Press, 1992 - R. Crowley, 1453. The Holy War for Constantinople and the Crash of Islam and the West, Hyperion, New York 2005 - C. Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650. The Structure of Power, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2002 - D. R. Reinsch (hrsg.), Critobuli Imbriotae Historiae, Berlin – New York, De Gruyter, 1983 - D. R. Reinsch (hrsg.), Dukas, Chronographia, Berlin – Boston, De Gruyter, 2020 - A. Kaldellis (ed.), Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, London – Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2014 (More texts to be studied in English, French and German could be decided together with the professor, who is happy to also help finding them in case of need.)Modalità Erogazione
In personModalità Frequenza
OptionalModalità Valutazione
Oral exam