THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
VENICE UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME 2014
All lectures and seminars will be held in the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava. Teaching
for the MA students is indicated in bold.
WEEK 1 (Beginning 29 September)
Monday
10.00. General meeting of all History and History of Art students, including MA
students.
Location: Palazzo Pesaro Papafava.
11.00. Briefing for History BA students.
Location: Palazzo Pesaro Papafava.
11.45 MA: History briefing for MA students.
Location: Palazzo Pesaro Papafava.
13.45 tbc Tour of the University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari and its library for all
History and History of Art students, including MA students.
Location: The courtyard of Ca’ Foscari.
18.00. Reception for all students. Meeting with buddies.
Location: Palazzo Pesaro Papafava.
Tuesday
09.00 tbc Tour of the Biblioteca Querini Stampalia for History students
Location: Biblioteca Querini Stampalia, Campo Santa Maria Formosa.
11.00-13.00 MA: Introduction: Conducting Research in Venice
Location: Pala
zzo Pesaro Papafava.
14.00 Historiography lecture: Why study historiography?
Wednesday
15.00-17.00 MA module: Introduction to Renaissance Venice
18.00 (tbc) Meeting of the Library and Liaison Committee.
Location: The Irish Pub (tbc)
Thursday
08.30-10.30 tbc MA: Orientation Biblioteca Marciana
Location: Biblioteca Marciana
10.00-11.30 Historiography seminar Historiography seminar: What Is History?
12.00: Historiography lecture: Medieval Chroniclers and Humanist Historians
14.00 MA: Orientation in PPP Library
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Friday
09.00-12.00: Visit to Torcello. Location: The stop for the number 12 vaporetto
on the Fondamente Nuove. NB If you have not bought an IMOB card for the
vaporetti, please make sure that you have bought ACTV tickets before 13.00 as
we will be leaving promptly. You will need two €7 tickets to get you to Torcello
and back.
WEEK 2 (Beginning 6 October)
Tuesday
10.00-11.00 Florence and Venice lecture: The Renaissance in Historical Thought
11.15-12.15 Florence and Venice lecture: Florence and Venice: Origins, Myths
and Trajectories
14.00 Historiography lecture: Niccolò Machiavelli
Wednesday
15.00-17.00 MA module: Social structure and gender
Thursday
10.00-12.00 Florence and Venice seminar: The Concept of the Renaissance
13.00-14.30
Historiography seminar: Medieval Chroniclers and Humanist
Historians
WEEK 3 (Beginning 13 October)
Tuesday
10.00-11.00 Florence and Venice lecture: Structures of Power
11.15-12.15 Florence and Venice lecture: Dissent and its Control
14.00-15.00 Historiography lecture: Francesco Guicciardini
Wednesday
10.00 Florence and Venice site visit: Palazzo Ducale visit
15.00-17.00 MA module: Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Thursday
10.00-12.00 Florence and Venice seminar: Government
13.00-14.30 Historiography seminar: Machiavelli
WEEK 4 (Beginning 20 October)
Tuesday
10.00-11.00 Florence and Venice lecture: Identities
11.15-12.15 Florence and Venice lecture: Challenges
14.00-15.00 Historiography lecture: Paolo Sarpi
Wednesday
10.00 Florence and Venice site visit: The Ghetto
15.00-17.00 MA module: Consumption and its control
Thursday
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10.00-12.00 Florence and Venice seminar: Society
13.00-14.30 Historiography seminar: Guicciardini
WEEK 5 (Beginning 27 October)
Tuesday
10.00-11.00 Florence and Venice lecture: The Visual Arts in Florence and Venice
11.15-12.15 Florence and Venice lecture: Humanism in Florence and Venice
14.00-15.00 Historiography lecture: Enlightenment history
Wednesday
10.00 (tbc) Florence and Venice site visit: The Accademia
15.00-17.00 MA module: Violence and its control
Thursday
10.00-12.00 Florence and Venice seminar: Culture
13.00-14.30 Historiography seminar: Sarpi and devotional historiography
Friday
17.00 Deadline for the electronic submission of the first assessed essay for the
Florence and Venice in the Renaissance module.
18.00 NB Public lecture. PPP. Humfrey Butters: ‘Why does Machiavelli matter?’
All students are expected to attend this lecture and the reception afterwards.
WEEK 6: TRAVEL WEEK (Beginning 3 November)
NB You are encouraged to travel across Italy, especially to Florence. You must
not return to Britain.
WEEK 7 (Beginning 10 November)
Tuesday
10.00-11.00 Florence and Venice lecture: Courts and Culture
11.15-12.15 Florence and Venice lecture: Courts and the Crisis of Italy
14.00-15.00 Historiography lecture: Ranke and the idea of Empiricist history
Wednesday
All day Florence and Venice site visit to Mantua.
Thursday
10.00-12.00 Florence and Venice seminar: The Princely Courts
13.00-14.30 Historiography seminar: Enlightenment historiography
Friday
10.00-12.00 MA Module: Poverty, Disease and Charity
WEEK 8 (Beginning 17 November)
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Tuesday
10.00-11.00 Florence and Venice lecture: Florence and Venice in the first age of
global trade
11.15-12.15 Florence and Venice lecture: The empire of things: production and
consumption in Renaissance Italy
14.00-15.00 Historiography lecture: Karl Marx
Wednesday
10.00 Florence and Venice site visit: Rialto
15.00-17.00 MA Module: Popular Religion and Catholic Reform
Thursday
10.00-12.00 Florence and Venice seminar: The Material World
Friday
Local holiday: The Festa della Salute with morning procession to the church of
the Salute.
WEEK 9 (Beginning 24 November)
Monday
9.30-11.00 NB Historiography seminar: Ranke and Rankean history
Tuesday
10.00-11.00 Florence and Venice lecture: Church and State
11.15-12.15 Florence and Venice lecture: Piety and Reform
14.00-15.00 Historiography lecture: Max Weber: history and sociology (tbc)
Wednesday
10.00 (tbc) Florence and Venice site visit: San Rocco
15.00-17.00 MA Module: Print and Censorship
Thursday
10.00-12.00 Florence and Venice seminar: Religious Life
13.00-14.30 Historiography seminar: Marx and theories of history
WEEK 10 (Beginning 1 December)
Monday
13.00-14.30 Historiography seminar: Weber and his method (tbc)
17.00 NB Deadline for the electronic submission of the second assessed essay
for the Florence and Venice in the Renaissance module.
Tuesday
All day Annual Conference: Current Research in Italian Renaissance History and
History of Art. NB All students are expected to attend
Wednesday
15.00-17.00 MA Module: Venice, War and Public Opinion (tbc)
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NB Afternoon Closure of the Library. Volunteers are needed to check the stock.
They will be paid.
Thursday
Morning Finishing the checking of the Library stock.
needed.
Time and location (tbc) Final Dinner
Friday
End of term. You can return home.
Again, volunteers are