Week 1: 1/11 – What
is History?
Introductions
and Overview of Course
E.H. Carr, What is History
(entire book)
Introduction to Appleby, Hunt, and Jacob, Telling the Truth about History
(ER)
Week 2: 1/18 – Ancient
& Late Antique Understandings of the Past
*Reports on “influential book” [Adrienne, Dana, Jessica, Russell, Sean]
19-28 (intro to Greece & Homer, Hesiod,
Herotodus)
69-72 (intro to Rome & Livy)
75-80 (Cicero)
86-88 (Pliny the Younger)
89-105 (Sallust, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus)
117-121 (intro to the Judeo-Christian Tradition
& Daniel)
128-136 (Eusebius, Josephus)
142-154 (Augustine & Orosius)
Report: Edward Gibbon [Michael F.]
Week 3: 1/25 – Late Antique (cont.) and Medieval
Visions of History [Discussion: Rebecca & Sean]
*Reports on “influential book” [Anthony, Brian,
Michael G, Shannon]
Primary Sources
Eusebius
of Caesarea, Life of Constantine, excerpts,
RWCH, 87-96 [ER]
Recommended: Zosimus, Book II.29-34 (Short excerpt: a pagan Roman
historian's view of Constantine)
Bede,
Ecclesiastical History of the English
People, Preface and Book I, Chs. 1-8 [available on-line]
167-173: “Barbarian History” (Jordanes, Gregory of
Tours & Fredegar)
192-193:
Fulcher of
212-214: Joachim of Flora
Adso
of Montier-en-Der, “Letter on the Origin and Time of the Antichrist,”
RWCH, 285-288 [ER] – A recent translation of the whole text except for the prologue can be found here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/primary/adsoletter.htm
Jean Froissart, Chronicles (Penguin edition), selections [ER]
Secondary Sources
Averil
Cameron, “Remaking the Past,” in G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar, Late Antiquity. A Guide to the
Post-Classical World (1999), 1-16. [ER-eventually; meanwhile in-library use on 3rd floor - reference]
Medieval Studies Today:
John
Van Engen, “The Christian Middle Ages as an Historiographical Problem,” The American Historical Review Vol. 91, No. 3 (Jun., 1986):
519-552. [JSTOR]
Paul
Freedman and Gabrielle Spiegel, “Medievalisms
Old and New: The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Studies,”
American Historical Review 103, No. 3 (June 1998), 677-704. [JSTOR]
Report: Arthur Lovejoy and The Great Chain of Being [Andrew]
Week 4: 2/1 –
Renaissance Visions of History
*Reports on “influential book”
Readings from Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses
on Titus Livy [Not the whole thing; selections coming...]
Francesco Guicciardini, The
History of Italy, (Princeton, 1969), 3-21 [ER]
Felix Gilbert, “Guicciardini,” in Machiavelli and Guicciardini
(Princeton, 1965), 271-301. [ER]
Anthony Grafton, "Dating
history: the Renaissance and the reformation of chronology," Daedalus,
Spring 2003, 73-85. [ER or JSTOR]
Excerpts from Jakob Burkhardt, The
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Read selections of your choice
from all 6 sections: http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/burckhardt.html
Alison Brown, “Jacob Burkhardt’s
Renaissance,” History Today 38 (October 1988), 20-26. [JSTOR]
Christine de Pizan (1363-1431),
Selections from The Book of the City of
Ladies [ER]
Jean-Kelly Gadol, “Did Women have a
Renaissance?” In Becoming Visible: Woman in European History, ed. R.
Bridenthal and C. Koonz,
Reports: Hans Baron; Paul Oskar Kristeller
Week 5: 2/8 – Early Modern; Religion & Violence [Discussion: Adrienne, Dana, & Shannon; Written Comments: Russell & Rebecca]
1. Emergence & Impact of
Print
Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing
Revolution in Early Modern
AHR Forum: How Revolutionary was the Print Revolution?, American
Historical Review, vol. 107, number 1, Feb. 2002, 84-128:
“Introduction” (Anthony Grafton)
“An Unacknowledged Revolution Revisited” (Elizabeth Eisenstein)
“How to Acknowledge a Revolution” (Adrian Johns)
"Reply" (Elizabeth Eisenstein)
2. Early modern religion and history; Religious violence
Primary Sources:
Excerpts from Foxe’s Book of
Martyrs, ed. G.A. Williamson,
Johannes Sleidanus, John Calvin,
Earl of Clarendon in Kelley,
ed., 320-333; 340-346
Secondary Sources:
David Nirenberg, “Introduction” and
“
Brad Gregory, "'To the point
of shedding your blood' The Bible, Communities of Faith, and Martyrs' Resistance to Conversion in the
Reformation Era," in Conversions: Old Worlds and New,
Natalie Davis, "The Rites of Violence:
Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France,” Past and Present
59 (1973), 51-91.
Inga Clendinnen, “Disciplining
the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century
Yucatan,” Past and Present 94 (1982), 27-48.
Week 6: 2/15 – The Enlightenment [Discussion: Jessica & Michael F.; written responses: Dana & Adrienne]
Primary Sources:
Jean Bodin (1530-96) in
Kelley, 380-394
Jean Mabillon (1623-1707) in Kelley,
413-417
Montesquieu (1689-1755), Selections from The Persian Letters
in The Enlightenment: A Comprehensive Anthology, ed. Peter Gay, 122-143.
Voltaire
(1694-1778), Entry for Denis Diderot’s Encyclopedia in Kelley, 442-446
Voltaire, Advice to a Journalist; Introduction to The Age of Louis XIV in Fritz Stern, ed., The
Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present, 36-38; 40-44
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) in Kelley, 474-477
Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) in Kelley, 477-487
Secondary Sources:
Carl L. Becker, Everyman his own historian: Essays on history and politics,
New
Charles Beard,
"Written
history as an act of faith," American Historical Review 39 (1934), 219-229
Carl Becker, Heavenly City of
the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (Yale, 1932)
Report: Carl Becker [Eleanor]
Friedrich Engels, The German
Peasant War of 1525,
Peter Blickle,
“The Economic, Social and Political Background of the Twelve Articles of the
Swabian Peasants of 1525,” in Janos Bak, ed., The German Peasant War,
E.P.
Thompson—selections from The Making of the English Working Class (New
York, 1966) preface, exploitation, class consciousness [scan should be up by
Friday
Eugene
Genovese—selections from “Marxian Interpretations of the Slave South” in
Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History, ed. B.
Bernstein, 99-106.
Marcus Rediker
and Peter Linebaugh, “The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic
Working Class in the Eighteenth Century,” Journal of Historical Sociology,
3 (1990), 225-252.
Show
and Tell: Find a Marxist historian in your field!