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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2018 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Rachele Scuro (rachele.scuro@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | At the end of the 7th century – with the election of the first doges – Venice started to separate itself from the Byzantine influence and become an independent city-state. During the High Middle Ages the group of islands in the northern Adriatic sea that constitute the first nucleus of the city had been part of the exarchate of Italy, but by that time the commercial fortunes of the inhabitants of the lagoon had proved successful enough to allow them to aim to independence. Thus, at the end of the first millennium the leading role of Venice in connecting Europe with the near East, helped by a privileged relationship with Constantinople, was already established. At that moment started a complex (and in some aspects contradictory) history that lasted until the self-proclaimed fall of the Republic in 1797. A growth that during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance transformed Venice into one of the main political and naval powers, trade and financial hubs, and social and intellectual centres in the Mediterranean basin and Europe. The original city became a proper state and if initially it aimed mainly to sea trading and the Eastern Mediterranean (thanks to its overseas dominions), by the 15th-16th centuries its interest strongly shifted to Italy and Europe, when, after the conquest of the Terraferma State, Venice became one of the main players in the European arena. The course aims to explore this history in a perspective that links institutional, social and economic aspects from the Middle Ages to the Cinquecento, with a special focus on the period 13th – mid 16th centuries, at the apex of the Venetian power. Examples and sources (examined alongside their English translation) will introduce the focal elements and turning points that marked the development of the city and the State, as in the case of the fourth crusade and the conquest of Byzantium in 1204; or the Serrata (closing) of the Maggior Consiglio that at the end of the same century reshaped the social structure of Venice, creating the aristocratic oligarchic body that ruled its politics till the end. Aspects such as the role of manufacturing, of the foreigners living in the city or the peculiarities of the Venetian administrative and bureaucratic system will also be examined. Lastly, a special focus will be given to the consequences Venice faced after the birth of the Ottoman empire, the increased role played by other European powers in the Italian peninsula, and the discovery of the new oceanic routes at the beginning of the modern era. |
| Literatur | - A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797, E.R. Dursteler (ed.), Brill, Leiden 2013; - Venice. A Documentary History, 1450-1630, D. Chambers and B. Pullan (eds.), Blackwell, Oxford 1992; - Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: the Legacy of Benjamin Kohl, M. Knapton, J.E. Law and A. Smith (eds.), Firenze University Press, Firenze 2014 (open access on-line version: <http://www.rm.unina.it/rmebook/index.php?mod=none_Legacy_Kohl>); - Venice: cità excelentissima. Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo, H. Labalme and L. Sanguineti White (eds.), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2008; - Venice Reconsidered. The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797, J. Jeffreis Martin and D. Romano (eds.), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 20032; - D. Jacoby, Commercial Exchange across the Mediterranean. Byzantium, the Crusader Levant, Egypt and Italy, Ashgate, Aldershot 2005; - D. Jacoby, Studies on the Crusader States and on the Venetian Expansion, Variorum, Northampton 1989; - F.C. Lane, Venetian Ships and shipbuilders of the Renaissance, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 1992; - F.C. Lane, Venice. A Maritime Republic, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 1973; - F.C. Lane and R.C. Mueller, Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice: o vol. I: Coins and Moneys of Account, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore-London 1985 o vol. II: The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics and the Public Debt, 1200-1500, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore-London 1997; - E. Muir, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1981; - D. Romano, The Likeness of Venice. A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari, 1373-1457, Yale University Press, New Haven 2007; - D. Romano, Patricians and Popolani. The Social Foundations of the Venetian Renaissance State, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 1987. |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Studierende der Geschichte aller Studienstufen. Bei Überbelegung wird die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt. in diesem Fall werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Deutsch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Grundmodul Frühe Neuzeit (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Areas: Westeuropa (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Ereignisse, Prozesse, Zusammenhänge (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Kommunikation und Vermittlung historischer Erkenntnisse (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Methoden und Diskurse historischer Forschung (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Profil: Renaissance (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Profil: Vormoderne (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Wahlbereich Bachelor Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Departement Geschichte |