UHVD3024 General Historiography

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Jirásek, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Jirásek, CSc.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
This lecture course gives an account of the geerakl history of historiography from the antiquity till today. It follows the main trends, movements and schools in the history of historiography, most significant representatives and their seminal works.
Syllabus
  • 1. Ancient Greek and Roman historiography
    2. Medieval annalists and chroniclers
    3. Humanist and Renaissance Historiography
    4. The era of rationalism and enlightenment
    5. The birth of modern historiography in late 18th and early 19th century Germany
    6. The principles of historism
    7. German, French and English historography in the era of historicism
    8. National paradigm in historiography
    9. The Crisis of historism: materialist, marxist, positivist challenge
    10. The Annales School
    11. New approaches in historiography after the 2nd World War
    12. Postmodern historiography
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
* Passing an exam
* reading G. G. Iggers? Historiography in the 20th century, Peter Burke?s French revolutin in historiography and three mongraphs of the historians discussed in this course
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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