Migrations And Ethnogenesis in Medieval Times (1) (Lm) – Bologna

• Attending students will take part in 75% of the classes (at least) and participate to class discussions. Starting from week 3, groups of students will present and discuss one or more primary source and the relevant scholarship.

Argomenti del programma: The historiographical concept of ethnogenesis was developed by early medievalist scholarship in the second half of the 20th century to describe the ethnic identities of the peoples involved in the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages as the outcome of open and continuously evolving historical and cultural processes.