Course
title: The discourse of history
Time:
Monday 16.00-17.30 CET
Place:
Zoom (hybrid or online course for
CHARM)
Instructor:
István Szijártó
Credits:
6 ECTS
Homepage: https://szijarto.web.elte.hu/Discourse2025.htm
Educational
objectives:
The course is intended as an English-language introduction to the historiography and theory of history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Course content:
1. 8 September 2025: Introduction
2. 15 September 2025: Far antecedents: the beginnings of history (up to the 18th century)
3. 22 September 2025: Close antecedents: history established (19th century) – historicism and positivism
4. 29 September 2025: Writing Romantic history, the unification of scientific history, Geistesgeschichte
5. 6 October 2025:
The beginnings of social and cultural history
6. 13 October 2025: The Annales school under the leadership of the second generation
7. 20 October 2025: Historical demography, the history of family and houshold
8. 3 November: Marxist history
9. 10 November 2025: Psychohistory
10. 17 November 2025: History centered on culture
11. 24 November 2025: The linguistic turn
12. 1 December 2025: Writing history at the end of the 20th century
13. 8 December 2025: The contextual turn. Summary
Course
requirements:
Oral examination about the content of the course at the end of the course. Two questions from what has been discussed and one more question from the prescribed reading.
Prescribed
reading:
Huizinga, Bloch, Braudel, Aries, Erikson, E. P. Thompson, Gurevich, Hayden White, Darnton, Ginzburg, Nora (To be specified later.)