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Lecturer(s)
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Kubeš Jiří, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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KLEIO in theory. What is history and why history? The development of history as a discipline in the context of art and scientific development. Thúkýdidés and Hérodotos - "two fathers and two directions in historiography". Is history an art or a science? Characteristic methods and their development. History as a text. History, historicism, and the social logic of texts. The philosophy of history. The issue of causality as a problem of history and human thinking as it is. Historical sociology. KLEIO in practice - methods. Cognition in historical practice. Cognition based on sources and other things. Logic and history (induction and deduction, direct and indirect methods, diachronous and synchronous, progressive and retrospective, analysis). Quantitative methods. Statistics in historical practice - introduction to statistics. The use of computers in history. Historian and data, spreadsheet and databases. Data presentation. Analysis of paintings in iconographical practice. Methods. Model analysis, comparative method, typological method, micro- and macro-analysis. Note: The topics covered in the lectures will be dealt with in details during the seminars. There the sources will be presented, and we will try to interpret these with the help of individual methods. Therefore, the lectures may freely overlap with the seminars. The specific topics, mentioned above, do not necessarily have to match the lectures. There is undoubtedly more time devoted to some of the topics and not to others.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Methods of individual activities, Skills training
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of this course is to provide an interdisciplinary outline of the most important methods that were and are used in the study of history. Attention will be drawn especially to history as a piece of text. Quantitative methods, methods involving the use of visual sources, etc, will be considered. Also of concern will be the penetration of other disciplines into the historian's thought processes and, therefore, the origin of "borderline fields": historical sociology, the history of art or thought.
Students will be able to use various methods of the historian's work and information about the history of related disciplines.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination, Home assignment evaluation
The examination will take the form of a written test. Students will be admitted to the examination after presenting a paper during a seminar. Participation in the seminars is obligatory.
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Recommended literature
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Bartoš, J. Úvod do metodiky a techniky historické práce. Olomouc, 1992.
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Bartoš, J. Úvod do problematiky historického bádání a nauky o pramenech. Olomouc, 1999.
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BERNHEIM, Arnošt. Úvod do studia dějepisu. Praha, 1931.
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Bloch, M. Obrana historie aneb historik a jeho řemeslo. Praha, 1967.
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BŮŽEK, Václav a kol. Úvod do studia historie. České Budějovice, 1994.
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Hroch, M. a kol. Úvod do studia dějepisu - IV. Metody historikovy práce. Praha, 1983.
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Lewis, M. Jones, R. Using Computers in History. London and New York, 1996.
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Marek, J. O historismu a dějepisectví. Praha, 1992.
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Spiegel, G. The Past as Text. Baltimore and London, 1999.
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STORCHOVÁ, Lucie ? HORSKÝ, Jan a kol. Paralely, průsečíky, mimoběžky. Teorie, koncepty a pojmy v české a světové historiografii 20. století. Praha, 2009.
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Zwettler, O.; Vaculík;J.;;Čapka, F. Úvod do studia dějepisu. Brno, 1994.
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