DU1906 Laboratory research in Humanities A

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/6. 15 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination), k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jan Galeta, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tomáš Valeš, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The main goal of this course is to develop, between the students, the capacity of a team research and important team writing skills. To do so, a concrete example – going from the medieval period to early modernity – will be analyzed. All relevant methodologies – architectural analysis, visual culture analysis, archival research, etc. – will be employed by the students to assess the case study. Will follow a process of collective writing finalized in the publication of an article or small booklet by all the participants. In this way, a real research group will be formed, giving to the students practical experience and skills of such an approach.
The case study under investigation will be the city of Bari. Differently to the existing literature, the goal of this project will be to present selected cityscape on the longue durée from the 11th to the 20th century. The main output will be a small booklet devoted to the wider audience.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- work in a research group;
- gain proficiency in writing in collaboration with other scholars;
- disseminate and mediate research to academic and non-academic audiences;
- work in archives, libraries, research institutions, etc.;
- develop the capacity of receiving and implementing information stemming from other research fields, e.g., archaeometry, restoration, etc.;
- display practical skills in copy-editing and editorial process of academic work.
Syllabus
  • First investigation of the monuments in situ / weekly field research;
  • Autonomous research in attributed segments of research;
  • First feedback from teachers and colleagues;
  • Autonomous research in attributed segments of research;
  • Second feedback from teachers and colleagues;
  • Autonomous research in attributed segments of research;
  • Third feedback from teachers and colleagues;
  • Second investigation of the monuments in situ / two days of field research and subsequent production of needed pictures and documents;
  • First draft of the final publication;
  • Feedback on the text from teachers and colleagues;
  • Second draft of the final publication;
  • Feedback on the text from teachers and colleagues;
  • Copy edition and editorial work;
Literature
  • Antonella Ventura (ed.), San Nicola «metropolitano». Arte e devozione per il santo di Myra nella Città Metropolitana di Bari dall'XI al XXI secolo, Bari 2021.
  • Giacomo Lanzilotta, Vincenzo Fato nella pittura del Settecento in Puglia, catalogo della mostra (Castellana Grotte, chiese di S. Maria del Suffragio, S. Leone Magno e Caroseno, 19 dicembre 2005 - 19 febbraio 2006), Castellana Grotte 2005.
  • Alessandro Grandolfo, "The funerary monument of Bona Sforza in the Basilica of San Nicola in Bari: history and background of a royal mausoleum of Polish patronage", Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 86/4 (2023), pp. 477-504
  • Antonella Ventura ed., San Nicola "metropolitano": arte e devozione per il santo di Myra nella città metropolitana di Bari dall’XI al XXI secolo, Bari 2021
  • Giovanni Bellomo, Bari nella Puglia bizantina: le basiliche dei grandi Santi Gregorio Nicola Sabino. Lesmo 2024
  • Michele Bacci, San Nicola: il grande taumaturgo, Roma 2009
  • Gerhard J. Wiedmann, Die Malerei in Apulien zur Zeit der Gegenreformation : Beiträge zu einer Kunstgeschichte der "Terra di Bari" und Terra d´Otrento" im 17. Jahrhundert, München 1977.
  • Michela Lucci, La chiesa di San Nicola di Bari a Genazzano. Le vicende architettoniche da Martino V alle trasformazioni neoclassiche tra Settecento e Ottocento, Latium 24, 2007, pp. 121-183.
  • VINCENZO CAZZATO ET AL. Atlante del Barocco in Italia. Puglia. Terra di Bari e Capitanata 1. Roma, 2008. info
  • SCHINO, Cesare. La basilica cattedrale di Bari. Bari: Capitolo Metropolitano Primaziale di Bari, 1974, 38 stran. info
Teaching methods
Interactive seminar with field research, archival research, and collective work.
Assessment methods
The students will receive partial tasks into the process of gathering materials and will be evaluated on the basis of reports emerging from this field research. Subsequently, they will participate to the writing and editing of the final monograph. Each student will have a dedicated part and will be evaluated on this specific part.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
The course will start with a meeting with teachers on 25 February. It will continue with independent work in small groups. The centrepiece of the semester will be a workshop on site from 14 to 16 April.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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