LA CONDIZIONE FEMMINILE IN ETA' ROMANA

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Mela ALBANA

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course aims to offer students specific methodological tools for understanding the history of women and the condition of women in the Roman age in order to understand the social dynamics in the Roman world and in the contemporary age.

The expected learning objectives, according to the Dublin descriptors, are the following:

Knowledge and understanding (DD1)

- to know historical theories and models to interpret the history of women and the female condition in Roman times;nts;

- to know the theories useful to understand relational dynamics (in particular, the gender dynamics) in Roman times and their evolution until today.

Knowledge and applied understanding (DD2)

- to know and be able to analyze the sources (literary, legal, epigraphic and archaeological) concerning women in the Roman world;

- to connect the theoretical and methodological contents learned to the interpretation of past, present and future events and processes;

- to know how to use the methodology of historical research aimed at achieving the educational objectives.

Autonomy of judgment (DD3)

-To understand the specificity and relevance of Gender History;

- to evaluate the relevance of the theories studied with respect to the situations faced and the actions managed and / or observed;

- starting from the observation of past case studies, knowing how to advance, formulate and argue proposals for change and transformation in today's educational context.

Communication skills (DD4)

knowing how to communicate and share the analysis of events starting from historical knowledge

- knowing how to justify the objectives, procedures, methodologies in oral and written form.

Learning ability (DD5)

- Knowing how to identify unexpected results of research and its possible developments in terms of methodology and impact.

Course Structure

Frontal and interactive lessons.

Required Prerequisites

It is important that the student has a good knowledge of space-time coordinates

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is particularly recommended: active participation in lessons and other educational activities provided will greatly facilitate the understanding of the topics under study and will offer profitable opportunities for discussion with the teacher on the issues that each student will deem most appropriate to his or her specific interests

Detailed Course Content

The condition of women in the royal and republican ages (legal status, family context, patrimonial capacity)
Female discontent and demographic crisis,
Changes in the Augustan Age and the Principate
Women and religious cults
Violence against women
Women and work
Lucretia between myth and reality
The affair of Regilla

Textbook Information

1) - F. Cenerini, La donna romana, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009 pp. 7-207 or - E. Cantarella, L’ambibuo malanno. Condizione e immagine della donna nell’antichità greca e romana, Universale economica Feltrinelli, Milano 2015, pp. 7-21; 149-263.

2) - M. Albana, Le medicae nel mondo romano, Nuova Rivista di Storia della Medicina, IV, 1, 2023 , pp. 1-28. (on line).

3) - S. Giorcelli Bersani, Donne romane: storie "di genere" vere, possibili, improbabili, in F. Cenerini, I. G. Mastrorosa, Donne, istituzioni e società fra tardo antico e alto medioevo, Lecce 2016, p.405- 430 .

4)- M. Lentano, Lucrezia. Vita e morte di una matrona romana, ed. Carocci, Roma 2021, pp. 7-134.

5) - S.B. Pomeroy, L’assassinio di Regilla. Storia di una donna, del suo matrimonio e del tempo in cui visse, Editori Laterza, Bari 2007, pp.1-169.

M. Albana, La violenza di genere a Roma tra stereotipi, pregiudizi e realtà, in M. Albana, E. Commodari, E. Frasca, C. Soraci, E. Taviani (a cura di), Autorità maschile e vissuti femminili tra storia e psicologia. Atti del convegno (Catania, 30-31 marzo 2023), Bari- S. Spirito 2023, pp. 13-31. ISBN 979-12-5995-051-2

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The examination consists of an oral test.

There are optional oral tests on the first part of the programme to be agreed with the professor.

Assessment will be based on:

adequacy of expression with regard to content and method;

ability to process knowledge, grasping spatial-temporal and cause-effect connections;

capacity for critical investigation;

lexical correctness.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

The legal and social status of women in the Republican age.

The role of women in the family.

Legal status and social role of women.

Augustan legislation on marriage.

The exemplary wives.

Women and work.

The women of the imperial court.

Women's work.

Violence against women.

Lucretia.

Regilla.

Degree Course in

Educational Sciences