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Kar

Bölcsészettudományi Kar

Szervezet

BTK Anglisztika Tanszék

Kód

BMI-ANGD17-B2E

Cím

A brit historiográfia jelen irányzatai

Tervezett félév

Tavaszi

Meghirdetve

2024/25/2

ECTS

5

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

The purpose of the course is to introduce the rather complex concept of historiography, mainly through examples of the British historical corpus. It will be explained that the term Historiography may refer to any of the following three concepts: i. The study of the methods and approaches—including the summary and understanding of the collected works—of one or a group (school) of historians, historical writers; ii. The general epistemological study of (the study of) history. Meaning a philosophical, philological, literary approach to the whole question of our understanding the past and the human attitudes and relationships thereto. Given that the past is the only notional space that we can study with conviction (the only way any written text can stand in front of us is that someone committed a series of thoughts into writing), this is a fairly broad sweep. This interpretation includes questions such as What is an event?; Whether there is a historical truth at all?; Whether we create the future by our readings of the past?; and whether History can only be lingual (textual or oral) or it exists outside language as well. Or iii. As a glorified term for the "literature review" in an extended historical essay, thesis or dissertation; Of these three possible understandings of Historiography, this course will apply the first two options.

Tantárgy tartalma

The following syllabus outlines the content of the course. Each item refers to one week’s lecture topic. 1. Introduction: What is Historiography and why does it matter? The turns in recent historiography: Identity, psychological, narrative, linguistic, spatial, architectural, philosophical, literary, gender, geographic, Begriffsgeschichte, new-diplomatic, prosopographic, counterfactual, practice, etc. The ‘Whig’ historical tradition, its classical practitioners: Sullivan, J.R. Green, Macaulay, G.M. Trevelyan; early and late critics: Lewis B. Namier and Herbert Butterfield. Sullivan, Francis Stoughton. Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England: With a Commentary on Magna Charta, and Illustrations of Many of the English Statutes (2nd Irish ed.), Dublin: William Jones, 1790. Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron Macaulay. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, 5 volumes, London, 1848. Namier, Lewis. The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III, London, 1929. Butterfield, Herbert. The Whig Interpretation of History, London: G. Bell and sons, 1931. 2. Gibbon’s magisterial work: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 volumes, London, 1776-1789. Porter, Roy. Gibbon Making History, London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. 3. Oxbridge and History. The Regius Chairs in Modern History. William Stubbs, Lord Acton, H.A.L. Fisher, Norman Davies Stubbs, William. The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, 3 volumes, London, 1873–78. Two histories of Europe compared: Fisher, H.A.L. A History of Europe. Vol. 1: Ancient and Medieval; Vol. 2: Renaissance, Reformation, Reason; Vol. 3: The Liberal Experiment, London, 1935. Davies, Norman. Europe: A History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Figgis, Neville John; Reginald Vere Laurence (eds). Lectures on Modern History by the Late Rt. Hon. John Emerich Edward First Baron Acton, London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1906. 4. Constitutional History: the lawyer’s take Fisher, H. A. L. F. W. Maitland, Cambridge University Press, 1910. Maitland, F.W. The Constitutional History of England, [1908] Cambridge University Press, 1909. —— "The Corporation Sole," Law Quarterly Review, Vol. XVI, 1900. —— Equity: A course of lectures, Cambridge, 1909. Dicey, A.V. Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889. https://archive.org/stream/introductiontos04dicegoog#page/n6/mode/2up 5. The British School of Nationalism Studies: Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson and E.J. Hobsbawm Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, London: Verso, 1983, 1991. Hobsbawm, Eric J. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, myth, reality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 6. A.F. Pollard, L.B. Namier A.F. Pollard (1869-1948) A. F. Pollard: the Dictionary of National Biography, the Royal Historical Manuscripts Commission, the Historical Association and the Institute of Historical Research. Pollard, A.F. Factors in Modern History, London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1907. ——. Henry VIII, Paris, London, New York: Goupil, 1902. Alford, Stephen. “Politics and Political History in the Tudor Century”, The Historical Journal, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 535-548. Thomas, Peter. ‘L. B. Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III, [a reappraisal]’, June 1997. 7. The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London The official historian Robert William Seton Watson, Ronald Burrows, Paul Vinogradov, Tomáš Masaryk, Robert Pynsent, László Péter, Robert Service, Norman Davies, Dennis Deletant, Martyn Rady and Rebecca Haynes Establishment and growth of SSEES and SOAS since the First World War. Seton-Watson, R.W. “The Origins of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies”, The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 17, No. 50 (Jan., 1939), pp. 360-371. Review Article: Maurice Pearton, “The History of SSEES: The Political Dimension”. Review of Roberts, I.W. History of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 1915-1990, [SSEES, University of London, 1990.] The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 71, No. 2, April 1993, pp. 287-294. The SSEES Occasional Papers series. Official histories by W.K. Hancock, Basil Collier, Sir Charles Webster, Noble Frankland, Sir James Butler, N. H. Gibbs, J.R.M. Gwyer, John Ehrman, Michael Howard, Stephen Roskill. Gibbs, N.H. Grand Strategy, Volume 1, Rearmament Policy, (History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series, edited by J.R.M. Butler), London: HMSO, 1976. Martin Gilbert (1936-1015), the most famous official historian. Churchill, Randolph and Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, 8 volumes, London: Heinemann, 1966-1988. Gilbert, Martin. In Search of Churchill, London: HarperCollinsPublishsers, 1994. 8. The Documentarists Harold Temperley, George Peabody Gooch, Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, Rohan d’Olier Butler, John Patrick T Bury, Anne Orde, Keith Hamilton, David Vincent and Donald Cameron Watt. Temperley, Harold William Vazeille and G.P Gooch eds. British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914 (11 volumes), London: HMSO, 1926-1938. Temperley, Harold William Vazeille; Lillian M. Penson eds. A Century of Diplomatic Blue Books, 1814-1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. Woodward, Ernest Llewellyn; Rohan Butler, W.N. Medlicott, W.N. Douglas Dakin, Gillian Bennett, J.P.T Bury, Anne Orde, eds. Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919–1939, First Series, 27 vols, London: HMSO, 1947-1986. Watt, D.C. How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War 1938-1939, London: Heinemann, 1989. 9. The Great Historiography Debate R. G. Collingwood, E.H. Carr, Geoffrey Elton, Richard Evans, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Howard, Michael Oakeshott, Keith Jenkins Collingwood R. G., The Idea of History, Oxford, 1946. Carr, E.H., What is History?, London: Macmillan, 1961. Elton, Geoffrey, The Practice of History, Sydney: Sydney University Press; London: Methuen, 1967. William, Penry. “Dr. Elton’s Interpretation of the Age”, Past and Present, No.25 (Jul. 1963), 3-8. Evans, Richard J., In Defence of History, London: Granta Books, 1997. 10. A.J.P. Taylor, Simon Schama, Niall Ferguson: Media historians? Burk, Kathleen. The Troublemaker: The life and history of A. J. P. Taylor, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2000. Briggs, Asa. The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, 5 volumes, London: Oxford University Press, 1961-1995. Schama, Simon. Rembrandt’s Eyes, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London 1999. ——. Landscape and Memory, London: Vintage, 1996 ——. A History of Britain, 3 volumes, London: BBC, 2000. 11. The British International History Group Michael Dockrill, Zara Steiner, Keith Neilson, Erik Goldstein, Brian McKercher, Gaynor Johnson, Thomas G. Otte, John Charmley, Neville Wylie, Michael Kandiah, Alan Sharp, Anthony Lentin, Michael Jabara Carley, John Fisher ( www.bihg.ac.uk ) Conferences and symposia. The lifetime achievement of Zara S Steiner. The new Generation: David Reynolds, David Cannadine (Clare College and beyond), Linda Colley (Lady Cannadine) and the reappraisal of 18th century British history, Jonathan Haslam, Brendon Simms Johnson, Gaynor. The Berlin Embassy of Lord D’Abernon, 1920-1926, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Neilson, Keith and Thomas G. Otte, The Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1854-1945, New York, London : Routledge, 2009. Otte, Thomas G. July Crisis: The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Steiner, Zara. The Lights That Failed: European International History, 1919-1933, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ——. The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 12. History as philosophy: Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) Oakeshott, Michael. Experience and Its Modes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933. https://archive.org/details/experienceitsmod00oake Oakeshott, Michael. What is History? and other essays, edited by Luke O’Sullivan, Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2004. The main bibliography for this course is identical with the works discussed during the lectures.

Számonkérés és értékelés

The final mark will be given on the basis of a home essay.

Irodalomjegyzék

Dobson, Miriam and Benjamin Ziemann, eds. Reading Primary Sources: The interpretation of texts from nineteenth and twentieth-century history, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009. Hale, J.R. ed. The Evolution of British Historiography: From Bacon to Namier, London and Melbourne: Macmillan, 1967 Hughes-Warrington, Marnie, ed. Fifty Key Thinkers on History, London and New York: Routledge, 2000.

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