Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Történeti Intézet
- Kód
- BA-ERA-IHS-S-14
- Cím
- The comparative microhistory of Hungary in the eighteenth century
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- Meghirdetve
- 2024/25/1
- ECTS
- 6
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- Educational objectives The course will present the microhistory of 18th-century Hungarian politics in a comparison with microhistorical works about medieval and early modern Europe, from the classics to the latest books. These will help the participants of the course both to understand the 18th-century history of Hungary and to have a good overview of the theory and practice of microhistory.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- Course content 1. 11 September 2024: Introduction 2. 18 September 2024: Army, society, and a love for details 3. 25 September 2024: Panna Rózsa’s wonderings 4. 2 October 2024: The return of Panna Rózsa 5. 9 October 2024: ’Let them flog you!’ 6. 16 October 2024: The miller’s case 7. 6 November 2024: The bishop and the Jew 8. 13 November 2024: Enlightenment in Tiszabercel 9. 20 November 2024: Lèse-majesté and the emergence of the nation 10. 27 November 2024: Historiography 11. 4 December 2024: Theories 12. 11 December 2024: Summary
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Course requirements As a minimum, two thirds of the courses are to be attended. For each class, two types of texts are to be read: first: a book in full or a chapter or two, second: a single chapter from a manuscript that is about Hungary in the eighteenth century. These two types of texts will be discussed first in themselves, then in a comparative perspective. For missed classes, readings should be made up by 20 December 2024 the latest. No essay is to be submitted.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Prescribed reading 2. Thomas V. Cohen: Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory. Routledge: London – New York, 2019. 16-39, 163-188. (Chapter 2: If a summer’s eve a traveller, or two… and Chapter 8: Nicolina runs away) 3. Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir: A Tale of a Fool? A Microhistory of an 18th-Century Peasant Woman. Routledge: London – New York, 2019. 4. Gene Brucker: Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence. University of California Press: Berkeley - Los Angeles, 1986. 5. Tyge Krogh: The great nightman conspiracy. A tale of the 18th century’s dishonourable underworld. Routledge: London – New York, 2019. 6. Carlo Ginzburg: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1980. 7. Thomas V. Cohen: Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory. Routledge: London – New York, 2019. 142-162, 189-199. (Chapter 7: Black velvet’s odd adventure and Chapter 9: A boy steals gold) 8. Giovanni Levi: Inheriting Power: The Story of an Exorcist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. 9. Sarah Maza: Private Lives and Public Affairs. The Causes Célebrès of Prerevolutionary France. University of California Press: Berkeley – Los Angeles – London, 1993. 112–167. (Chapter 3: Private Lives and Public Affairs: Upper-Class Scandal, 1774–1778) 10. Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon – István M. Szijártó: What is microhistory? Theory and practice. Routledge: London – New York, 2013. 1-76. 11. István M. Szijártó: Probing the limits of microhistory. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47 (2017) 1: 193–198; idem: The paths of microhistory. Quaderni storici 53 (2018) 917–928; idem: Arguments for Microhistory 2.0. In: Hans Renders – David Veltman (eds): Fear of Theory. Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography. Leiden–Boston, 2021. 211–227.