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Course unit
HISTORY OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN CHRISTIANITY
SUP9086677, A.A. 2019/20
Information concerning the students who enrolled in A.Y. 2019/20
HISTORY OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN CHRISTIANITY
SUP9086677, A.A. 2019/20
Information concerning the students who enrolled in A.Y. 2019/20
Information on the course unit
| Degree course |
Second cycle degree in CLASSICAL LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AND ANCIENT HISTORY (Ord. 2019) LE0612, Degree course structure A.Y. 2019/20, A.Y. 2019/20 |
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| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 6.0 | |
| Type of assessment | Mark | |
| Course unit English denomination | HISTORY OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN CHRISTIANITY | |
| Website of the academic structure | https://www.dissgea.unipd.it/ | |
| Department of reference | Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World | |
| Mandatory attendance | No | |
| Language of instruction | Italian | |
| Branch | PADOVA | |
| Single Course unit | The Course unit can be attended under the option Single Course unit attendance | |
| Optional Course unit | The Course unit can be chosen as Optional Course unit |
Lecturers
| Teacher in charge | VITTORIO BERTI | M-STO/07 |
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| Course unit code | Course unit name | Teacher in charge | Degree course code |
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| SUP9086677 | HISTORY OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN CHRISTIANITY | VITTORIO BERTI | IA0280 |
ECTS: details
| Type | Scientific-Disciplinary Sector | Credits allocated | |
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| Educational activities in elective or integrative disciplines | M-STO/07 | History of Christianity and the Churches | 6.0 |
Course unit organization
| Period | Second semester |
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| Year | 1st Year |
| Teaching method | frontal |
| Type of hours | Credits | Teaching hours |
Hours of Individual study |
Shifts |
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| Lecture | 6.0 | 42 | 108.0 | No turn |
| Start of activities | 02/03/2020 |
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| End of activities | 12/06/2020 |
| Show course schedule | 2019/20 Reg.2019 course timetable |
Examination board
Examination board not defined
| Prerequisites: | No specific knowledge is required. |
| Target skills and knowledge: | The student must become aware of the main lines of the Eastern Christian traditions as emerged between the second and ninth centuries in the East of the Roman Empire. The course is particularly focused on Syriac Christianity. |
| Examination methods: | The exam will take place in oral form with discussion of one or more topics covered in the lessons and on the reference texts |
| Assessment criteria: | We will evaluate the accuracy of the preparation, the clarity of the presentation, the understanding of the topics covered, the ability to present problems in a critical way. |
| Course unit contents: | The course consists in two sections.
1. Peoples and languages of the Christian East. 2. The Syriac tradition, in particular the Church of the East during the first millennium, and the era of Patriarch Timothy I (780-823). In this second section we will present the complicate relation between christian schools and monasticism during the first Islamic period. |
| Planned learning activities and teaching methods: | The lessons will be mostly frontal. Slides, images and conceptual maps will be used. The analyzed sources will be projected. All these materials will be present in moodle with the access key provided during the lesson. |
| Additional notes about suggested reading: | Papers on East Syriac spirituality which will be provided by the teacher
Berti, Vittorio, ''Fuoco nel cuore, polvere in bocca: la scrittura della trance estatica nella mistica cristiana siriaca (secoli VII-VIII)'', Pages 44-71 in Esperienze e tecniche dell’estasi tra Oriente e Occidente. Edited by Canetti, Luigi and Piras, Andrea. Quaderni di Studi e Materiali di Storia delle religioni 21. Brescia: Morcelliana, 2018. Berti, Vittorio, ''Le débat sur la vision de Dieu et la condamnation des mystiques par Timothée Ier: la perspective du patriarche'', Pages 151-176 in Les mystiques syriaques. Edited by Desreumaux, Alain. Études syriaques 8. Paris: Geuthner, 2011. Berti, Vittorio, ''Grazia, visione e natura divina in Nestorio di Nuhadra, solitario e vescovo siro-orientale († 800 ca.)'', Annali di scienze religiose 10 (2005): 219-257. |
| Textbooks (and optional supplementary readings) |
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- Lecturing
- Working in group
- Loading of files and pages (web pages, Moodle, ...)
- Moodle (files, quizzes, workshops, ...)
- Kaltura (desktop video shooting, file loading on MyMedia Unipd)