HST 600: Historiography
Professor Steve Scherer
Mondays, 6:30-9:20
Offered every semester
This course deals with historical theory. Theoretical courses in history curricula can include studies ranging from bibliography, methodology and research practice through the philosophy of history and the history of historical writing.
Bibliography, methodology and research practice are better taught intensively in association with subject matter courses. The philosophy of history is best taught within the discipline of philosophy.
History 600, therefore, is principally a study of the history of historical writing; the development of historical methods and the use of sources are discussed, but peripherally.
Course Texts
Basic Reference:
Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
Assigned Historians:
Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline
Bede, History of the English Church and People
Guicciardini, History of Italy
Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
Michelet, Joan of Arc
Ranke, Ferdinand I and Maxmilian II of Austria
Pirenne, Medieval Cities
Foucault, Madness and Civilization
Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
Johnson, What We Knew
Bailyn, Atlantic World
Dirlik, "Performing the World: Reality and Representation..."
Professor Steve Scherer
Mondays, 6:30-9:20
Offered every semester
This course deals with historical theory. Theoretical courses in history curricula can include studies ranging from bibliography, methodology and research practice through the philosophy of history and the history of historical writing.
Bibliography, methodology and research practice are better taught intensively in association with subject matter courses. The philosophy of history is best taught within the discipline of philosophy.
History 600, therefore, is principally a study of the history of historical writing; the development of historical methods and the use of sources are discussed, but peripherally.
Course Texts
Basic Reference:
Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
Assigned Historians:
Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline
Bede, History of the English Church and People
Guicciardini, History of Italy
Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
Michelet, Joan of Arc
Ranke, Ferdinand I and Maxmilian II of Austria
Pirenne, Medieval Cities
Foucault, Madness and Civilization
Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
Johnson, What We Knew
Bailyn, Atlantic World
Dirlik, "Performing the World: Reality and Representation..."
