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Literature of European History I Dr Literature of European History I Dr. Sarah Covington Fall, 2014 Office: #5402 Tues. 6:30-8:30 p.m., Room 5212 Hours: 5:30-6:30 or by appt. Contact: [email protected] 718-997-5393 Introduction This course will introduce you to the basic theories, methodologies, debates, and themes in the historical study of medieval and early modern history. In addition to surveying the different conceptual and methodological approaches to the development of “history” as a mode of knowledge across time, we will read works that best reflect these different approaches; we will then move on to study classic and recent texts that approach such essential topics in medieval and early modern history as political thought and the emergence of states and nations; religion and the crisis of the reformation and counter- reformation;, revolutions in science and technology; and transformations in social life and gender relations. This will be an intensive yet supportive course with the goal not only of helping you study for the first-year comprehensive examination, but aid you in laying the critical foundations for future studies. As such, our work will be collaborative; not only are you encouraged to see me in my office hours, but you should consult with each other and participate on blackboard (or in independent study groups) to share the material and your own comments and findings together. Requirements • Attendance and Participation (20%). You will be expected to read intensively in this course and to contribute substantially to the weekly discussions; attendance is therefore essential. • Weekly Response Papers and presentation (40%). Every week you must submit a two-page critical essay on the reading of your choice, answering the questions I provide you in the handout. You should focus on the major themes, questions, and problems posed by the reading for the week, and post your essay on blackboard by 9 a.m. on the day of the class. I will need my own hard copy, and will grade it with a √+ for outstanding, a √ for good, and a √- for a deficient essay with no penalty. You may miss two papers without penalty. You will also be expected to participate in discussions of the book you chose, contextualizing it in accordance to the other readings on historiography and method. • Seminar Presentation. You will be asked to give a 10-15 minute presentation based on the reading(s) of the week, with special focus on the historiographical or theoretical approach, and providing a general overview and posing questions for the seminar. • Final Paper (40 %). You will be expected to write two 8-10 page papers that utilize a broad range of the readings and theoretical approaches, answering the following broad questions: 1. What are problems in approaching the study of pre-modern history? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches, and how are they illustrated in the books under review? 2. Based on three of the specialized fields that we’ve studied, describe the approaches and manner in which those fields have been treated, and how study of them has changed over the years READING: Required: • One book a week, chosen from the list provided each session. We will be coordinating the books with each other in order that most if not all are covered in each class. You are also encouraged to familiarize yourself with the other books, however. • Historiography readings (3rd column) in part one of the class. Available on blackboard. Recommended: Textbooks: • Daniel Waley and Peter Denley, Later Medieval Europe: 1250-1520 • Eugene Rice and Anthony Grafton, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (2nd ed. (New York, 1994). Useful Websites: • http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/ Annotated bibliographies of specialized areas, compiled by leading scholars in the field. See for Renaissance and Reformation, and for Medieval Studies. • http://home.uchicago.edu/~icon/teach/guideorals.pdf “Guide to the Study of Early Modern European History For Students Preparing their Oral Examination,” by Constantin Fasolt. Issued by the University of Chicago, very useful throughout your graduate career as a guide to sources and reference works, in addition to suggestions on how to study for exams and orals. SCHEDULE OF CLASSES Week One: Introduction to the 9/2 course; overview of historiography; themes in medieval and early modern history; studying for the exam. Part One: Historiographical Approaches and Methods Week Topic Required One of the Following Week Ancient and Philip Stadler, 1. Donald Kelley, The Faces of Two: Medieval “Historical Thought in History: From Herodotus to 9/9 History Ancient Greece” Herder. New Haven, 1998, pp. 1- (skim) 99. 2. Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried, Historical Thought in Patrick J. Geary, eds. Medieval Ancient Rome” (skim) Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography Gabrielle Spiegel, (Cambridge, 2002). “Historical Thought in 3. Christopher Given-Wilson, Medieval Europe” Chronicles: The Writing of History (required) in Medieval England (London, 2007) 4. Nancy Partner, Writing Medieval History. London, 2005. Week The Three: Inheritance: Findlen, Paula. 1. Burke, Peter. The Renaissance 9/16 From the “Historical Thought in Sense of the Past. London, 1969. Renaissance the Renaissance.” In A 2. Ferguson, Wallace K. The through the Companion to Renaissance in Historical Thought: 19th century Western Historical Five Centuries of Interpretation. Thought. Boston, 1948. 3. Grafton, Anthony. What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, 2007. 4. Leopold van Ranke. The Theory and Practice of History (Routledge, 2011). Week No Class; Four: Friday 9/23 schedule Week Annales and Breisach, pp. 388-394; 1. E. LeRoy Ladurie, Montaillou Five: the History 2. F. Braudel, The Structures of 9/30 of Recommended: Marc Everyday Life: The Limits of the Mentalities Bloch, “Historical Possible (Philadelphia 1979). Analysis” in The 3. Lucien Febrvre, The Problem of Historian’s Craft Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century (Manchester, 1992), (Cambridge, 1985) pp. 138-189. 4. Philippe Aries, Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (New York1962 trans.), pp. 15-49. Week Marxist Walter Adamson, 1. R.I. Hilton, Bond Men Made Free: Six: History, “Marxism and Medieval Peasant Movement and the 10/7 Economic Historical English Rising of 1381 (2nd ed., History, and Thought” 2003) “History from 2. Christopher Hill, The World Turned Below” Upside Down (London, 1984) 3. Carlo Cipolla, Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700 (London, 1993) 4. Robert DuPlessis, Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge 1997). Week History of Ken Adler, “The 1. Thomas Kuhn. The Structure of Seven Science and History of Science, Scientific Revolutions. 3d ed. 10/14 Ideas Or, an Oxymoronic (Chicago, 1996) Theory of 2. Steven Shapin. The Scientific Relativistic Revolution (Chicago, 1996) Objectivity” 3. David Lindberg and Robert S. Westman, eds. Reappraisals of the Skinner, Quentin. Scientific Revolution (Cambridge, "Meaning and 1990). Understanding in 4. Cassirer, Ernst. The Individual and the the History of Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy Ideas." Reprinted (Philadelphia, 1963). in James Tully, ed., Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), 29-67. Week Anthropology Eight and William Reddy, 1. C. Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on the 10/21 Microhistory “Anthropology and Balinese Cockfight,” in The the History of Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Culture” Essays. (New York 2000), 412-454. 2. Carlo Ginzberg, The Cheese and the Worms (Baltimore, 1992). 3. Natalie Zemon Davis , The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge, MA, 1984) 4. Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England (Oxford, 1997) Week Gender and Nine Sexuality; the J. Scott, “Gender 1. Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast 10/28 body as a Useful and Holy Fast: The Religious Category for Significance of Food to Medieval Analysis,” AHR 91 Women (Berkeley, 1987) (1986), 1053-1075. 2. Merry Wiesner. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. 3rd ed. Joan Scott, “Did (Cambridge, 2008) Women Have a 3. Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Women, Renaissance?” Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 1995) 4. Margaret King. Women of the Renaissance (Chicago, 1991) Part Two: Specialized Areas: Medieval and Early Modern Week The 1. Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function Ten Medieval in Latin Christianity (Chicago, 1982) 11/4 Background 2. John Arnold, Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 2005) 3. R.I. Moore, Formation of a Persecuting Society (revised; New York, 2007) 4. Huizinga, Waning [or Autumn] of the Middle Ages (Chicago, 1996) Week Humanism 1. Grafton, Anthony. Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Eleven and the Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 (Cambridge, 11/11 Renaissance MA, 1994) 2. Nauert, Charles. Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (Cambridge, 1995) 3. Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy (Baltimore, 1988) 4. John M. Najerny (Ed), Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1550 (Oxford, 2005) Week States and 1. Steven A. Epstein, An Economic and Social History of Twelve Nations Later Medieval Europe, 1000-1500 (Cambridge, 2009) 11/18 2. Garrett Mattingly.G. Renaissance Diplomacy (Boston, 1955) 3. Geoffrey Parker. The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800. 2d ed. (Cambridge, 1996) 4. J.H. Elliott, Imperial Spain, 1469-1716 (Penguin), 2002). (2nd ed) 5. Tzvetan, Todorov. The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other (Norman, 1999). Week The 1. John Bossy, John. Christianity in the West, 1400- Thirteen: Reformation 1700 (Oxford, 1985) 11/25 and Counter- 2. Duffy, Eamon. Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Reformation Religion in England, 1400-1580.2d.ed. (New Haven, 2005) 3. MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation (New York, 2004) 4. John O’Malley. Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (Cambridge, MA, 2000) Week Society; Fourteen: Gender 1.
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