Despite its many conflicts, Europe is based on a idem sentire which is its common identity. The crucial factor in this community was the University: by the Twelfth century it is the driving force to the formation and transmission of ideas in the Old Continent. After the conflicts between the Church and the Reformation, the University gradually acquires an autonomy that forms the basic concept of the modern universities. In the Seventeenth century the bipolarity between humanities and sciences becomes more pronounced. By the Nineteenth century the division by disciplines shapes our universities. Finally, in the Twentieth century, under the sign of common European culture and identity, universities play the most important role in the cultural reconstruction after the two major Wars, and they are the leading actors in the cultural movements of the late Sixties as well as during the Internet revolution.
Malgrado i conflitti che nei secoli la hanno attraversata, L’Europa si fonda su di un idem sentire che è la base della sua identità comune. Fattore determinante di tale comunanza è stata l’università la quale, dal Dodicesimo secolo in poi, ha rappresentato il centro propulsivo per la formazione e la trasmissione delle idee nel Vecchio Continente. Dopo i contrasti tra Chiesa e Riforma, le università iniziarono un percorso di progressiva autonomia che fu alla base del concetto moderno di università. Nel Seicento si accentuò il bipolarismo tra facoltà umanistiche e scientifiche sino ad arrivare, nell’Ottocento, alla scansione disciplinare che ancora oggi caratterizza i nostri atenei. Nel Novecento l’università ha svolto il ruolo di ricostruzione culturale dopo le due grandi guerre del secolo ed è stata protagonista dei movimenti culturali del Sessantotto e della rivoluzione di Internet, sempre nel segno della civiltà e dell’identità comune dell’Europa.
L’Europa del sapere: dalle Università medioevali a Erasmus = The Europe of knowledge: from the Medieval university to Erasmus, 2008.
L’Europa del sapere: dalle Università medioevali a Erasmus = The Europe of knowledge: from the Medieval university to Erasmus
Puglisi, Giovanni
2008-01-01
Abstract
Despite its many conflicts, Europe is based on a idem sentire which is its common identity. The crucial factor in this community was the University: by the Twelfth century it is the driving force to the formation and transmission of ideas in the Old Continent. After the conflicts between the Church and the Reformation, the University gradually acquires an autonomy that forms the basic concept of the modern universities. In the Seventeenth century the bipolarity between humanities and sciences becomes more pronounced. By the Nineteenth century the division by disciplines shapes our universities. Finally, in the Twentieth century, under the sign of common European culture and identity, universities play the most important role in the cultural reconstruction after the two major Wars, and they are the leading actors in the cultural movements of the late Sixties as well as during the Internet revolution.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.