Course code: BA-ERA-HIS-S-6
Course title: Comparative
microhistory of the 18th century (in English)
Time: every second Friday, 13.00-16.00
Location: 6-8 Múzeum krt., 268.
szijarto.istvan@btk.elte.hu
Course
homepage: www.szijarto.elte.hu/Comparative.htm
Maximum
number of students admitted: 7
Educational objectives
The course will present the microhistory of
18th-century Hungary in a comparison with microhistorical works about medieval
and early modern Europe, from the classics to the latest books. These will help
the participants of the course both to better understand the 18th-century
history of Hungary and to have a good overview of the theory and practice of
microhistory. As a change to the original programme, instead of discussing
theoretical texts on the 7th and 8th classes, we shall make an excursion into the
20th century.
Course content
1-2. 15 September 2023: Introduction
3-4. 29 September 2023: Millers
5-6. 13 October 2023: Women
7-8. 27 October 2023: Modernity
9-10. 17 November 2023: Conscripts
11-12. 1 December 2023: Conflicts
Course requirements
As a minimum, two thirds of the courses are to be attended. For each class, a book in English (or two) is to be read in full. For missed classes, readings should be made up by 20 December 2023 the latest. No essay is to be submitted.
Prescribed reading
3-4. Carlo Ginzburg: The Cheese and the Worms:
The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. The Johns Hopkins University Press:
Baltimore, 1980.
5-6.
Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir: A Tale of a Fool? A Microhistory of an 18th-Century
Peasant Woman. Routledge: London – New York, 2019.
7-8. Fabrice
Langrognet: Neighbours of Passage: A Microhistory of Migrants in a Paris
Tenement, 1882 - 1932. Routledge: London – New York, 2023; Edith Raim: The Rise
of National Socialism in the Bavarian Highlands: A Microhistory of Murnau, 1919
- 1933. Routledge: London – New York, 2023.
9-10. Ilya
Berkovich: Conscription in the Habsburg Monarchy 1740-1792, in William D.
Godsey – Petr Mat’a (eds): The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State:
Contours and Perspectives, 1648-1815. Published for the British Academy by
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022. 299-321; Tyge Krogh: The great nightman
conspiracy. A tale of the 18th century’s dishonourable underworld. Routledge:
London – New York, 2019.
11-12.
Andrew Miller: Patronage, Power, and Masculinity in Medieval England: A
Microhistory of a Bishop's and Knight's Contest over the Church of Thame.
Routledge, London – New York, 2023.