Universität Wien

070325 UE Readings in the History of Historiography (2023W)

Medieval and Renaissance Studies

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 11.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 18.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 25.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 08.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 15.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 22.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 29.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 06.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 13.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 10.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 17.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 24.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Wednesday 31.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

By the end of the course, students will be familiar with the basics of academic writing, including citation forms, bibliography, and scientific abstracts. They will learn how to distinguish between scientific texts and popular history works. Students will acquire a basic understanding of how to participate in scholarly discussions as well as in public history events. They will learn about the various historiographical trends and periods from antiquity to present. The course will focus specifically on text produced in various historical periods and dealing with medieval and Renaissance history.

Assessment and permitted materials

1. Reading the assignment(s) for each class
2. Writing two short abstracts (250-500 words)
3. One oral presentation at the beginning of the class (5-10 minutes)
4. Final essay: history writing (ca. 8000 characters including spaces, 1½ space, 12 font size, footnotes, title page, bibliography, without images)
Possible topics:
- Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Reformation and Enlightenment
- Microhistory
- Annales school
- Marxist historiography
- Cultural history
-Gender history
-Global history

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Grading will be based on three components:
1. Written exercises (40%)
2. Final essay (40%)
3. Oral presentation (20%)
two unjustified absences are allowed

assessment of the essay:
1. clarity of expression
2. convincing argumentation
3. structure and formal requirements (footnotes, bibliography)
4. understanding of the literature and its historical context
5. language will be informally assessed; thus, it does not count into the final evaluation of the essay

Examination topics

Reading list

General literature
Werner Berthold, Klios Jünger, 100 Historiker-Porträts von Homer bis Hobsbawm, Leipzig 2011.
Volker Reinhardt (Hg.), Hauptwerke der Geschichtsschreibung, Stuttgart, 1997.
Companion to Historiography, ed. Michael Bentley, London, Routledge, 1997.
Katherine Pickering Antonova, The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays, Oxford University Press, 2019.

Subject specific literature
1. The Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani’s “New Chronicle”
Herausgegeben von: Rala I. Diakité und Matthew T. Sneider, 2022.
2. Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani
Villani, Giovanni, 1348 [Author] ; Selfe, Rose E. [Translator] ; Wicksteed, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1844-1927 [Editor]
Project Gutenberg ; 2010, § 1-30.
3. Dino Compagni: Chronicle, Book 1.
4. Niccolò Machiavelli, Geschichte von Florenz, Zürich, 1993.
4. Jacob Burckhardt, Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, Stuttgart 1860.
5. Matthew C. Brown, Marx for Medievalists: Rethinking Feudalism and Historicism in Capital, Rethinking Marxism, 2011, Vol.23 (1), 12-21
6. Karl Marx, Ökonomische Schriften I, Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, erster Band, Erstes Buch, Vorwort zur ersten Auflage XVII-XXI, pp. 3-10 (Die Ware), Anhang, Engels, Vorwort zur dritten Auflage, 941-943.
7. Fernand Braudel, Das Mittelmeer und die mediterrane Welt in der Epoche Philipps II. (übersetzt von Günter Seib). 3 Bände, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1990
8. Peter Burke, Die Renaissance in Italien: Sozialgeschichte einer Kultur zwischen Tradition und Erfindung, Berlin, 1996.
9. Carlo Ginzburg: Der Käse und die Würmer, Berlin: Wagenbach, 2007.
10. Joan Kelly-Gadol, Did Women have a Renaissance? in Becoming Visible: Women in European History, ed., Renate Bridenthal and Claudia Koonz, Boston, 1977, 137-164.
11. Natalie Zemon Davis, Forum: revisiting Joan Kelly’s Did Women have a Renaissance? Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2013, vol. 8, 241-247.
12. Francesca Trivellato, What Differences Make a Difference? Global History and Microanalysis Revisited, Journal of early modern history, 27 (2023) 7–31.

Association in the course directory

BA Geschichte (V2019): PM1 Quellen und Methoden - UE Lektüre historiographischer Texte und Historiographiegeschichte (4 ECTS).
BEd UF GP 05: Quellen und Methoden 1 - KU Lektüre historiographischer Texte und Historiographiegeschichte (4 ECTS)

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