B026373 - MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY

Italian

Topics, problems, methodologies of European historiography from the 16th to the 19th century. Trends in historiography on Modern age.

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Bentley, Michael, Modern Historiography. An Introduction, London, Routledge, 1999.
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Budd, Adam, The Modern Historiography Reader: Western sources, London, Routledge, 2008.
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Competence goals: The course offers the students who already have a basic knowledge of Modern history an overview of the main themes and problems which characterize the development of European historiography from 16th to 19th century, together with an overview of some major trends in contemporary historiography on Modern history.
Behaviour goals: stimulate a critical reflection on the characters of the historians' craft from XVIth to XIXth century.

A general knowledge of Modern European history from 16th to 19th century.

Lectures and seminars; external interventions, in English as well.

Further information will be given directly by the teacher on request.
Disabled students or students with learning disabilities are invited to contact the "UNIFI Include" desk in order to set up the course in the most appropriate manner for their specific needs. The agreed measures must be shared with the teacher in due time.

The examination will be oral, also for students not attending class or coming from foreign countries following Erasmus or other kinds of exchange programs. During the examination, questions (from two to four) will be asked to verify:
1) understanding and knowledge of historical processes;
2) understanding and knowledge of major topics;

3) understanding and knowledge of most important historical events and dates;
The final evaluation will be the result of the evalutions relating to the three cited sections.
Students can also integrate the oral examination with a written paper, agreed with the teacher, which will be orally discussed.

The class has two complementary sections. The first one deals with some of the main characters which define the identity of a ‘modern’ historiography since the 16th to the 19th century: theories of history, relationship between history and politics, topics in historical research, historians’ profiles, forms of historical communication. The second one deals with trends and problems of contemporary history concerning Modern age: the changing of the historiographical notion of ‘modernity’, some of the main topics in contemporary historiography on Modern history, some of the main methodological proposals.
Main contents:
The notion of 'modernity': periodizations and conceptualizations.
Characters and stages in European historiography
- history and historiography
- humanistic histiography
- erudition and narrative history in the XVIIth c.
- Enlightenment historiography
- historiographyin the XIXth century.
- some characters if the XXth c. historiography.

Themes and fields of Modern historiography
- Universal history
- Natural history
- Travels and history of manners
- History and iconography
- Cartography and history

Web resources for the study of Modern history

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