Cape Breton University History 3115 Varieties of History Dr David G Mullan Fall Term 2016

Updated 09 September

Classes Mondays and Wednesdays 1300-1415 Classroom CE319

Office CE252 Telephone 902-563-1299 (with voice mail)

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Office hours MW 0900-1200, TTh 1000-1200. You may prefer to make an appointment when you see me in class, or by e-mail.

Course description: 1This course will introduce students to the variety of historical writing from ancient Hebrew culture up to the contemporary era. Reading primary sources will be emphasized, and students will receive advanced instruction about historical research and the writing of essays.

Course Information at CBU Moodle. Use your student ID to login and then change your password.

Attendance policy According to institutional policy, students are paying customers and have no obligation to attend classes. However, students are reminded that it is, for all intents and purposes, not possible to pass this course without regular attendance. If you do not plan to attend consistently, you ought not to take the course.

Policy on electronic devices in the classroom Mobile phones &c. are banned outright. They must neither be seen nor heard in class. Laptop computers are a distraction, but may be used for note taking and research.

Textbooks There are no texts to purchase for this course. There is an electronic book which will be used extensively, and students should have access to a book about research and writing, and which contains instruction on Chicago Style. One suggestion is Making Sense in the Humanities, by Northey and McKibbin. Donald R. Kelley, ed., Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment Course Evaluation

Participation 35% research essay 40% final presentation 25%

Supplemental examinations are not given in this course, and resubmissions are not permitted.

If sickness or personal problems should make it difficult to complete assignments on time or to attend examinations, students should inform the Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences immediately. This will ensure favourable consideration by all instructors.

'To the millions of readers who love books, reading is as natural and as necessary to life as breathing. Without books the world for us would be an arid desert with no footprints from the past, no oases of comfort for the present and no sign–posts to the future.'

-- P. D. James [Phyllis Dorothy James White] (1920-2114), English novelist.

ABOUT PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is unacknowledged borrowing from sources you have consulted for your writing. It can include direct quotation, data, ideas, sentence structure. There are ways of dealing with the problem and these include quotation marks and footnotes. Remember that it is possible not to have any direct quotations in an essay but still to have numerous footnotes for borrowed material. This issue will be discussed at length in class. Do not hesitate to consult with the instructor if doubts should arise.

Students are directed to the CBU Academic Calendar, pp. 37-8.

Nowadays, of course, we must also consider electronic/digital sources in the same way, but remember, these are for the most part banned from your essays.

'The Alexandrians were not slow to react. Just as the plagiarism of the forger-poets had been unmasked by Aristophanes of Byzantium, this Philippic [speech] was exposed: someone in the Museum, recognizing its phrases, consulted the library shelves and traced the original from which it had been copied ... .' --Luciano Canfora, The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World, trans. Martin Ryle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 46. Course sequence

12 September2Introduction to the course

14 What is history? Who is the historian?

19 Bring a Bible to class today and to the next class. Biblical views of history J E P Deuteronomist Historian John Van Seters, “Historiography in Ancient Israel”

21 “ “ The Chronicler Ezra-Nehemiah

26 Classical Greek views Herodotus Thucydides

28 “ “ Polybius Plutarch

3 October Classical Roman views Livy, Prologue to History of Rome Suetonius Sallust Tacitus Caesar, Gallic Wars

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10 Thanksgiving Day—class cancelled

12 Early Jewish and Christian views Luke-Acts Josephus, The Jewish War Eusebius, History of the Church Augustine, City of God

17 “ “ 19 Medieval Histories Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks Venerable Bede, Ecclesiastical History Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Joinville, Life of St Louis Villehardouin, Conquest of Constantinople Froissart, Chronicles Joachim of Fiore

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26 Renaissance Histories Lorenzo Valla Leonardi Bruni

31 « « Niccolo Machiavelli Giorgio Vasari

2 November Reformation Histories Matthias Flaccius Illyricus, Magdeburg Centuries Jean Crespin, Histoire des Martyrs John Foxe, Acts and Monuments John Knox, History of the Reformation in Scotland Caesar Baronius, Annales ecclesiastici Thieleman J. van Braght, Martyr’s Mirror

7 Enlightenment Histories Voltaire William Robertson Edward Gibbon

9 Conference

14 Conference

16 Nineteenth Century Romanticism Marxism

21 Presentations

23 Presentations

28 Presentations 30 Presentations