Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Történeti Intézet
- Kód
- BA-ERA-IHS-S-6
- Cím
- Comparative microhistory of the 18th century
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- ECTS
- 6
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- Educational objectives The course will present the microhistory of 18th-century Hungary 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 better understand the 18th-century history of Hungary and to have a good overview of the theory and practice of microhistory.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- Course content 1-2. 15 September 2023: Introduction 3-4. 29 September 2023: Millers 5-6. 13 October 2023: Women 7-8. 3 November 2023: Theories 9-10. 17 November 2023: Conscripts 11-12. 1 December 2023: Conflicts
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Course requirements As a minimum, two thirds of the courses are to be attended. For each class, a book in English is to be read in full. For several classes, the prescribed reading will be selected by the participants of the course at the first class from the options offered. For missed classes, readings should be made up by 20 December 2023 the latest. No essay is to be submitted.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Prescribed reading 3-4. Carlo Ginzburg: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1980. 5-6. Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir: A Tale of a Fool? A Microhistory of an 18th-Century Peasant Woman. Routledge: London – New York, 2019. 7-8. István M. Szijártó: Puzzle, fractal, mosaic. Thoughts on microhistory. In: Journal of Microhistory 2008 (19.10.2008); idem: The capacities of microhistory. In: Erős Vilmos – Káli Róbert – Törő László Dávid – Kavecsánszki Máté (eds): Approaches to historiography. Debrecen, 2016. 191–197; idem: Probing the limits of microhistory. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47 (2017) 1. szám 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; idem and Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon: What is microhistory? Theory and practice. Routledge: London – New York, 2013. 9-10. Ilya Berkovich: Conscription in the Habsburg Monarchy 1740-1792, in William D. Godsey – Petr Mat’a (eds): The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State: Contours and Perspectives, 1648-1815. Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022. 299-321; Tyge Krogh: The great nightman conspiracy. A tale of the 18th century’s dishonourable underworld. Routledge: London – New York, 2019. 11-12. Andrew Miller: Patronage, Power, and Masculinity in Medieval England: A Microhistory of a Bishop's and Knight's Contest over the Church of Thame. Routledge, London – New York, 2023.