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Didactical path - first year

History

 

 

Lesson topic

Contents and references

Freedom of thought and expression - Democracy at Athens

·       Pericles

Freedom of thought and expression – The Roman Empire

·       Constantine – edicts of toleration (A.D. 311 and 313)

·       Julian the Apostate and universal toleration

Freedom of thought and expression  - The Middle Ages

·       Albigeois and the Inquisition

·       Pope Innocent VIII

Freedom of thought, expression and information  - The Renaissance

·       Reformation ( M. Luther, Calvin)

·       The Coucil of Trent, The Roman Index,

·       M. Servetus

·       S. Castellion

·       O. Cromwell

·       Act of Toleration (1689)

 

Freedom of thought, expression and information  - The Age of Enlightment and The French Revolution

·       Voltaire

·       Robespierre

·       Declarations and Contitutions

Freedom of thought, expression and information  - The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

·       Napoleon

·       Syllabus (1864)

·       First Vatican Council and infallibility (1870)

Freedom of thought, expression and information – The Twentieth Century

·       Dictatorship in Italy, Germany and Soviet Union