Course: Selected Problems from the History of Modern Historiography

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Course title Selected Problems from the History of Modern Historiography
Course code KHV/PHHN
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Reiterová Žaneta, doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
Course content
The specific historiographical issues and challenges: Pre-Romanticist and romantic philosophy of history; liberal historiography; classical German Historical School; penetration of positivism in historiography; Historical School Jaroslav Goll and his followers; Marxist historiography, historical materialism; Joseph Baker and T. G. Masaryk - a dispute over the meaning of Czech history; Crisis classical historicism and new trends in historiography in the 19th and 20th centuries; national economic history, cultural history, social history; Search sense of history in the 20th century; Understanding of history, "the spirits of history"; Annales school; American historiography, "New History"; historical science after 1945, "New economic history", historical demography, quantitative methods, the specifics of German postwar historiography; postmodern challenge in historiography and return narration of "linguistic turn" in historiography, the interdisciplinary nature of modern historical research; micro-history and the history of everyday life, "new cultural history", prosopography, gender history, cultural anthropology; Czech postwar historiography (1945 - present).

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 30 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Practical training (number of hours) - 13 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 35 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to describe the basic historiographic schools in the 19th and 20th century
to characterise the important historiographic works and personalities of the 19th and 20th century
Skills
to evaluate critically on the basic level the important historiographic works of the 19th and 20th century
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to characterise the main schools of the modern historiography
to characterise the important works of principal world and Czech historians
to explain the typical characteristics of the Marxist historiography, of the Annales school, of the Oral history
Skills
to analyse the important historiographic works of the 19th and 20th century
to interpret the important historiographic works of the 19th and 20th century
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Skills
Seminar
Competences
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Skills
Seminar work
Competences
Oral exam
Seminar work
Recommended literature
  • Analytická historiografia.
  • Beneš, Zdeněk. Historický text a historická kultura. Praha : Univerzita Karlova, 1995. ISBN 80-7184-126-9.
  • Bolton, J. Nový historismus. Brno: Host, 2007.
  • Burke, Peter. Co je kulturní historie?. 1. vyd. v českĂŠm jazyce. Praha : Dokořán, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7363-302-8.
  • Burke, Peter. Francouzská revoluce v dějepisectví. : škola Annales (1929-1989). Vyd. 1. Praha : Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2004. ISBN 80-7106-719-9.
  • Iggers, Georg G. Dějepisectví ve 20. století : od vědecké objektivity k postmoderní výzvě. Praha : Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2002. ISBN 80-7106-504-8.
  • Marek, Jaroslav. O historismu a dějepisectví. Praha : Academia, 1992. ISBN 80-200-0284-7.
  • Popper, Karl Raimund. Bída historicismu. 1. vyd. Praha : ISE, 1994. ISBN 80-85241-75-7.
  • Řezníková, Lenka. Moderna a historismus : historické reprezentace v proměnách literatury na přelomu devatenáctého a dvacátého století. 1. vyd. Praha : Libri, 2004. ISBN 80-7277-278-3.
  • Štaif, J. František Palacký. Život, dílo, mýtus.. Praha, 2009.


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