History of Historiography

Code:

HISTO024

Acronym:

HHIST

Instance: 2012/2013 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in History

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
GEOGR	28	Study Plan . Minor in History (2012/2013)	2	-	6	52	162
			3
HISTO	76	Study Plan - Hist. w/ Minor in Geography	1	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - History	1	-	6	52	162
LLC	1	Single Language Plan-German	3	-	6	52	162
		Single Language Plan-French	3	-	6	52	162
		Single Language Plan-English	3	-	6	52	162
		Single Language Plan-Spanish	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

0. Nota prévia: This chair will focus on the discussion of issues related to History in the Area of our Knowledge, paying special attention to characters from the XVII century to the present-day.

1. Objectivos:

1) The present aspects of HH.


2) Proposing a chronology in time for XVII-XX centuries and adequately justifying it.

3) The students will be offered the main knowledge about a given theme of “Historical schools” (Enlightenment, Romanticism, “Methodical School”, Marxism, Annales / New Histories, “New Political Stories, Post-Modernity…


4) complementing de point 3), the common non-critical usage of some concepts in HH, i.e. Historicism, Positivism, New History…



5) Providing HH texts of the main authors belonging to the proposed times to the students.

6) If there is a place for historians in contemporary societies, let the HH scholars know the reason: the main purpose.

Program

1. Historiography history: a new status for an old chair?

2. The rising of the «historical critics» and the modern erudition: from Jean Mabillon to the French revolution.

3. Enlightenment historiography: arguments and impasses.

4. Paths of the XIX century.

4.1. French revolution, Liberalism(s) and Historiography.

4.2. Historiography and cultural movements: Romanticism, Positivism, etc.

4.3. Historiography and Nationalities: Nation-State and State/Boss.

4.4. The «method» and the «methodical school(s) ».

5. Revolutions of historiography in the XX century.

5.1. Marxism and Historiography.

5.2. The Annales: naissance and the evolution of a historiography’s movement.

5.3. From Annales to the «Nouvelle(s) Histoire(s)»...

6. Historiography in the second half of the XX century: modernity and archaism (or maybe not...).

7. Post-modernity and Historiography.

8. What kind of Historiography for the XXI century?

8.1. Contextualizing in Humanities during the last two decades: from questioning to the renaissance?

8.2. Singular times: the return of the event in a world which is still happening.

8.3. New beginnings in a new century: Which is the time for the historians?

Mandatory literature

BOURDÉ, Guy; MARTIN, Hervé; Escolas (As) Históricas, Publicações Europa-América, 1990
CARBONELL, Charles-Olivier; Historiografia, Teorema, 1987
GADOFFRE, Gilbert (ed.); Certezas e Incertezas da História, Pensamento, 1988
BURGUIÉRE, André (dir.); Dictionnaire des sciences historiques, PUF, 1988
ROMANO, Ruggiero; GIL, Fernando (dir.); Enciclopédia Einaudi, 1. Memória-História, IN/CM, 1984
BURKE, Peter (ed.); Escrita (A) da História: novas perspectivas, UNESP, 1992
LE GOFF, Jacques; NORA, Pierre (dir.); Fazer História, 3 vols., Bertrand, 1977-1981-1987
FURET, François; Oficina (A) da História, Gradiva, 1987
BÉDARIDA, François (dir.); Histoire (L’) et le métier d’historien en France, 1945-1995, Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1995
PROST, Antoine; Douze leçons sur l’histoire, Seuil, 1996
SCHMITT, J.-Cl.; OEXLE, O. G. (dir.); Tendances actuelles de l’Histoire du Moyen Âge en France et en Allemagne, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2002

Complementary Bibliography

EVANS, Richard J.; Em Defesa da História, Temas e Debates, 2000
SALES, Véronique (dir.); Historiens (Les) , Armand Colin, 2003
ANDRÉS GALLEGO, J. (dir.); New History, Nouvelle Histoire. Hacia una Nueva Historia, Actas, 1993. ISBN: 84-87863-16-7
DUMOULIN; Rôle (Le) social de l'historien. De la chaire au prétoire, Albin Michel, 2003. ISBN: 2-226-13484-0
BOUTIER, Jean; JULIA, Dominique (dir); Passés recomposés. Champs et chantiers de l'Histoire, Autrement, 1995. ISBN: 2-86260-516-6
LACHAUD, Frédérique; LESCENT-GILES, Isabelle; RUGGIU, François-Joseph ; Histoires d'outre Manche. Tendances récentes de l'historiographie britannique, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2001. ISBN: 2-84050-185-6
TOPOLSKI, Jerzy (ed.); Historiography between Modernism and Postmodernism. Contributions to the Methodology of the Historical Research , Rodopi, 1994. ISBN: 90-5183-721-6

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures (and discussions) on the themes of the chair; reading and critical discussion of historiography’s texts.

keywords

Humanities > History > History of social sciences
Humanities > History > Contemporary History
Humanities > History > Social history

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	52,00
	Trabalho escrito	33,00		2013-07-12
	Exame	2,00		2013-07-12
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	75	2013-07-12
	Total:	75,00

Eligibility for exams

Mandatory 75% class attendance, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam: 100%, except in the cases established in the next paragraph (v.).

Examinations or Special Assignments

Optionally, and for valuation purposes, students can submit a reading report of the following book:

NUNES (João Paulo Avelãs); História (A) Económica e Social na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. O historicismo neo-metódico: ascensão e queda de um paradigma historiográfico (1911-1974), Lisboa, Instituto de Inovação Educacional, 1995, ISBN: 972-9380-54-6.

Calculation of final grade in these cases: final exam – 50 %; reading report -50 %.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Accordance with Assessment Regulations in force.

Classification improvement

Accordance with Assessment Regulations in force.