Course identifier: P/TÖ/TG-04

Level: PhD

Title of course: Microhistory

Teacher: István Szijártó

Time and venue: Wednesday 14.00-17.00 (once in a fortnight), Múzeum krt. 6-8. 268.

Language: Hungarian

Programme:

  1. 17 February: Introduction of the course and discussion of the semester’s programme.
  2. 2 March: Szijártó M. István: A történész mikroszkópja. A mikrotörténelem elmélete és gyakorlata. L’Harmattan: Budapest, 2014., Gábor Gyáni’s review: Korall 16 (2015) number 60: 151–162., Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon – István M. Szijártó: What is Microhistory? Theory and Practice. Routledge: London – New York, 2013. 77–159.
  3. 16 March: Practicing Microhistory Today. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies special issue – to be published.
  4. 6 April: Steven Bednarski: A Poisoned Past. The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2014.; Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir: Material without Value? The Recollections of Gudrun Ketilsdottir. In: White Field, Black Seeds. Nordic Literacy Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Anna Kuismin & M. J. Driscoll. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2013. 134–145.
  5. 4 May: Thomas Willard Robisheaux: The Last Witch of Langenburg. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.; Wolfgang Behringer: Shaman of Oberstdorf. Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night. University Press of Virginia: Charlottsville, 1998.
  6. 18 May: Erik H. Erikson: A fiatal Luther. Tanulmány a pszichoanalízisről és a történelemről. In: uő: A fiatal Luther és más írások. Gondolat: Budapest, 1991.; Frederick Crews: The Sins of the Fathers. Hawthorne’s Psychological Themes. Second edition. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1989.; Rudolph M. Bell: Holy Anorexia. Chicago University Press: Chicago–London, 1985.
  7. 25 May: Discussing a book to be selected together.

Submission: Comparative book review (3-5 pages a 1600 n) on either of the two books discussed in the course. Deadline: 18 May.

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