Course: Historiography

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Course title Historiography
Course code UHV/HIST
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Marek Pavel, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Antique historiography. The historiography of Medieval Europe. Renaissance and Humanistic historiography. Historiography in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Age of Reason. Nationalism and Romanticism in historiography. Leopold Ranke. František Palacký. Between Palacký and Goll. Czech historiography in the second half of the 19th century. Jaroslav Goll and the so-called "Goll's school". History and its versions: cultural history, economic and social history. The "Annales" school. Czechoslovak historiography during the First Republic. The main trends in historiography after the Second World War (the influence of Marxism, social history, everyday history, micro-history). Czechoslovak historiography after the Second World War.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to introduce the history of Czech and world historiography from its beginning till the present day. This course will be divided in accordance with the general historical cultural periods that defined the nature of historiography (antique historiography, Renaissance historiography, etc.) in modern times (the 19th and 20th centuries), mostly according to methodological approaches and individual schools of historiography (positivist historiography, social history, cultural history, the so-called "Annales" school, the history of everyday life, micro-history, etc.). Student will learn to describe and interpret basic developmental trends in world and Czech historiography, and to explain these trends in the context of the cultural development of particular periods.
Student will be able to describe and interpret the basic trends in world and czech historiography and place them in the context of cultural evolution of particular period.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination

This course ends with an written examination.
Recommended literature
  • BURKE, P. Francouzská revoluce v dějepisectví. Škola Annales (1929-1985). Praha: NLN, 2005.
  • CROCE, B. Historie jako myšlení a čin. Brno: CDK, 2006.
  • Hanzal, Josef:. Cesty české historiografie 1945 - 1989.. Praha, 1999.
  • HORSKÝ, J. Dějepisectví mezi vědou a vyprávěním: úvahy o povaze, postupech a mezích historické vědy. Praha, 2009.
  • IGGERS, G. Dějepisectví ve 20. století. Praha: NLN, 2002.
  • JIROUŠEK, B. (ed.). Jaroslav Goll a jeho žáci. České Budějovice: Jihočeská univerzita, 2005.
  • KUTNAR, J.; MAREK, J. Přehledné dějiny českého a slovanského dějepisectví. Praha: NLN, 1997.
  • NODL, M. Dějepisectví mezi vědou a politikou. Úvahy o historiografii 19. a 20. století. Brno: CDK, 2007.
  • ŘEPA, M. Poetika českého dějepisectví. Brno: Host, 2006.
  • ŠTAIF, J. Historici, dějiny a společnost. Historiografie v českých zemích od Palackého a jeho předchůdců po Gollovu školu. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 1997.
  • ŠUSTA, J. Úvahy o všeobecných dějinách. Praha: Argo, 1999.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): History (2013) Category: History courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): History (2013) Category: History courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter