Course identifier: BBN-ERA-186
Level: MA
Title of course: Microhistory
Teacher: István Szijártó
Time and venue: Tuesday 14.00-15.30, Múzeum krt. 6-8. 268.
Language: English
Description: The
course is intended as an English-language introduction to microhistory - first
of all for Erasmus studenst, but also for everyone interested. The classes
address the assets and weaknesses of microhistory through a close reading of its
classical texts and latest examples from Italian microhistory to Anglo-Saxon
microhistory.
Programme:
1. 10 September: Introduction into microhistory, fixing a detailed reading list for the semester
2. 17 September: Carlo Ginzburg: The Cheese and the Worms. The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. London and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.
3. 24 September: Giovanni Levi: Inheriting Power: The Story of an Exorcist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
4. 1 October: Natalie Zemon Davis: The Return of Martin Guerre. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.
5. 8 October: J. C. Holt: Robin Hood. London: Thames and Hudson, 1989.
6. 15 October: Guido Ruggiero: Machiavelli in Love. Sex, Self, and Society in the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 71-84., 108-162.
7. 22 October: Richard L. Kagan: Lucrecia’s Dreams. Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain. Berkeley – Los Angeles – London: University of California Press, 1990.
8. 12 November: James Shapiro: 1599. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. London: Faber and Faber, 2005. xv-xxiv., 1-211.
10. 19 November: James Shapiro: 1599. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. London: Faber and Faber, 2005. 212-373.
11. 26 November: Peter Englund: The Battle that Shook Europe. Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire. London – New York: I. B. Tauris, 1992.
12. 10 December: Sarah Maza: Private Lives and Public Affairs. The Causes Célebres of Prerevolutionary France. Berkeley – Los Angeles – London: University of California Press, 1993. 1-67., 263-312.