Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Történeti Intézet
- Kód
- BA-ERA-IHS-S-23
- Cím
- The microhistory of ordinary people
- Tervezett félév
- Tavaszi
- Meghirdetve
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 6
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- Educational objectives – learning outcomes The course will present the history of ordinary people in Europe from the Middle Ages to the 20th century from the perspective of microhistory. Participants will get a longue durée overview of everyday life in Europe over the centuries. In addition, they gain an intimate understanding of the methodology of microhistory. The reading list will be finalized in consultation with the participants of the course at the first class.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- Course content 1. 10 February 2026: Introduction 2. 17 February 2026: Everyday life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance I. 3. 3 March 2026: Everyday life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance II. 4. 10 March 2026: Ordinary people in the early modern period I. 5. 17 March 2026: Ordinary people in the early modern period I. 6. 14 April 2026: Everyday life in the nineteenth century I. 7. 21 April 2026: Everyday life in the nineteenth century II. 8. 28 April 2026: Ordinary people in the twentieth century I. 9. 5 May 2026: Ordinary people in the twentieth century II. 10. 12 May 2026: Ordinary people in the twentieth century III. 11. 19 May 2026: Ordinary people in the twentieth century IV.
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Course requirements At a minimum, students are required to attend two thirds of the courses are to be attended. For each class, a book or a substantial portion of it should be read in English. Readings for any missed classes must be completed 19 May 2026 at the latest. Students are not required to submit an essay.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Prescribed reading 2. Steven Bednarski: A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu. University of Toronto Press, 2014. 3. Gene Brucker: Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1986. 4. Duccio Balestracci: The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant. Penn State University Press: University Park, PA, 1999 5. Gabriella Erdélyi: Negotiating Violence: Papal Pardons and Everyday Life in East Central Europe, 1450-1550. Brill: Leiden, 2018. 6. Steven E. Ozment: Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wife. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 1989. 7-8. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie: The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga. University of Chicago Press, 1997. 9. Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir: A Tale of a Fool? A Microhistory of an 18th-Century Peasant Woman. Routledge: London – New York, 2019. 10. Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon: Emotional Experience and Microhistory: A Life Story of a Destitute Pauper Poet in the 19th Century. Routledge: London – New York, 2020. 11. Vincenzo Barra: The Musician and the Senator: The Microhistory of a Friendship Routledge: London – New York, 2024. 12. Fabrice Langrognet: Neighbours of Passage: A Microhistory of Migrants in a Paris Tenement, 1882–1932 Routledge: London – New York, 2022. 13. Patricia A. Schechter: El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887–1939. Routledge: London – New York, 2024. 14. Edith Raim: The Rise of National Socialism in the Bavarian Highlands: A Microhistory of Murnau, 1919–1933. Routledge: London – New York, 2021. 15. Elizabeth L. Krause: Unraveled: A Weaver’s Tale of Life Gone Modern. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2009. 16. Phil Leask: Friendship without Borders: Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany. Berghahn Books: New York, 2020.