History, Anthropology, Religions

The palaeographical method and a brief history of Greek palaeography; Greek handwriting during the Hellenistic and Roman periods (4th BC-3rd AD centuries); the majuscule 'normative' scripts (4rd-9th centuries); the birth of the minuscule script; Greek minuscule handwriting in books and documents (9th-14th centuries); Greek handwritings in the Italian Humanism and the Renaissance (15ht-16th centuries).

Knowledge of Ancient Greek.

D. Bianconi, E. Crisci, P. Degni, Paleografia greca, Roma, Carocci, 2021 (Manuali Universitari, 222) [ISBN: 978-88-290-1168-1]. Plates of Greek manuscripts with transcriptions as well as further bibliography will be provided in class.

The attendance is optional, but strongly recommended.

Oral exam at the end of the lessons, by mark expressed on a scale from a minimum of 18 (the threshold to pass the exam) to the maximum of 30 (cum laude). The exam consists in reading and discussing one or more facsimiles of Greek manuscripts. During the exam, a written practical test will also be discussed: it consists in the transcription of some portions of Greek manuscripts, which the student will have completed independently and given to the professor well in advance before the oral exam.

frontal lessons; reading practices.