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.