ARCHEOLOGIA MEDIEVALE

The course aims to promote knowledge of urban development in the Mediterranean area with particular reference to the experiences of Byzantine and Islamic Age, valuing the medieval heritage as a basic starting point for the definition of the modern city.

The complexity of classical cities; analysis of cultural and topographic changes of early medieval town in contact with the spread of Christianity, with the defensive needs of the Byzantine period, and innovations related to the model of the Islamic madina. Main cities: Rome, Costaninople, Damasco, Baghdad, Caire, Kairouan

Storiografia

1.L. Zavagno, La città bizantina tra il V e il IX secolo: le prospettive storiografiche, in «Reti Medievali Rivista», IX, 2008/1.

2.G. A. Neglia, Some Historiographical Notes on the Islamic City with Particular Reference to the Visual Representation of the Built City, in The City in the Islamic World, vol. I, edited by S. K. Jayyusi, R. Holod, A. Petruccioli and A. Raymond, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2008, pp. 3-46.

Quadri generali

3.G.P. Brogiolo, Le origini della città medievale, Mantova , 2011, pp. 244

4.G. Dagron, La città bizantina, in Modelli di città. Strutture e funzioni politiche, a cura di P. Rossi, Einaudi, Torino 1987, pp. 153-174.

5.A. Ducellier F. Micheau, L’Islam nel medioevo, Bologna 2004

6.A. Raymond, The Spatial Organization of the City, in The City in the Islamic World, 2 voll., edited by S. K. Jayyusi, R. Holod, A. Petruccioli and A. Raymond, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2008, pp. 48-70.

in alternativa

6. J.P. Van staevel, Dèbats autour de la ville musulmane.Evolution des paysages urbains et de l’economie, in Th. Bianquis, P. Guichard,M. Tillier (dir.), Les débuts du monte musulman (VII-X siècle). De Muhammad aux dynasties autonomies, Paris, pp. 531-546

Il Cairo:

7.A. J. Wensinck, Cairo, in Historic Cities of the Islamic World, edited by C. E. Bosworth, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2007, pp. 64-73.

Baghdad:

8.A. A. Duri, Baghdad, in Historic Cities of the Islamic World, edited by C. E. Bosworth, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2007, pp. 30-41.