Suggested curriculum for an English-language MA-course ‘Microhistory’

Suggested curriculum for an English-language MA-course ‘Microhistory’
(István Szijártó, Eötvös University, Budapest, June 2009)

1. Introduction to the course

2. A forerunner: George R. Stewart: Pickett’s Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Houghton Miflin Company: Boston, 1959.

3. Definitions of microhistory: Carlo Ginzburg – Carlo Poni: The Name and the Game. Unequal Exchange and the Historiographical Marketplace. In: Edward Muir – Guido Ruggiero (eds.):  Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore – London, 1991; Carlo Ginzburg: Microhistory. Two or Three Things That I Know About It. Critical Inquiry 20 (1993); Giovanni Levi: On Microhistory. In Peter Burke (ed.): New Perspectives in Historical Writing. Polity Press: Cambridge, 1991.

4. Microstoria I: Carlo Ginzburg: The Cheese and the Worms. Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Routledge: London, 1982.

5. Microstoria II: Giovanni Levi: Inheriting Power: The Story of an Exorcist. Chicago University Press: Chicago, 1988.

6. Microstoria III: Pietro Redondi: Galileo: Heretic. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1987.

7. Anthropological Approach I: Robert Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre And Other Episodes in French Cultural History. Vintage Books: New York, 1985.

8. Anthropological Approach II: David Warren Sabean: Power in the Blood. Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1984.

9. French Microhistory I: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie: Montaillou. The Promised Land of Error. Braziller: New York, 1978.

10. Arlette Farge – Jacques Revel: The Vanishing Children of Paris. Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1991. French Microhistory II.

11. Anglo-Saxon Microhistory I: Alan Macfarlane: The Family Life of Ralph Josselin. A Seventeenth-Century Clergyman. An Essay in Historical Anthropology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1970.

12. Anglo-Saxon Microhistory II: Paul Boyer – Stephen Nissenbaum: Salem Possessed. The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass. – London, 1974.

13. Anglo-Saxon Microhistory III: Natalie Zemon Davis: The Return of Martin Guerre. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass. – London, 1983.

14. On the theory of microhistory: Carlo Ginzburg: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm. In: Carlo Ginzburg: Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method. Hopkins University Press: Baltimore – London, 1990; Palle Ove Christiansen: Construction and Consumption of the Past. From ’Montaillou’ to the ’Name of the Rose’. Ethnologia Europaea 1988.; Jacques Revel: Microanalysis and the Construction of the Social. In Jacques Revel – Lynn Hunt (eds.): Histories. French Constructions of the Past. New Press: New York, 1995.

15. Evaluation of the course work.