Modern humanities

The students will acquire high level knowledge in Palaeography, paying attention to the latest developments in the disciplinary debate and bibliography. The students will be able to collect data for a critical judgment, even in the ethical-social dimension underpinning the discipline. The students will therefore be able to use their knowledge in critical thinking, in addressing open issues, in implementing methods of study and research. The students will manage to communicate the results of their work both to specialists and to a broader audience. Finally, the students will be provided with the necessary skills to successfully undertake a future degree that includes Palaeography.More specifically, the course wants to provide with the fundamental elements of the historical development of the Latin script, with great attention to the most widespread book scripts in the Italian peninsula; the book history will be recapitulated with its material and technical angles. The understating of these principles serves for reading and dating of the various systems of script; it serves also for reading and interpreting the catalogue descriptions of medieval and modern manuscripts.