Historiography II: Grand Debates in Central, Eastern and Southeast European Historiography
Level:
Master's CEU credits:
2 ECTS credits:
4 Academic year:
2009/2010 Semester:
Winter Start and end dates:
7 Aug 2009 Co-hosting Unit(s) [if applicable]:
Stream/Track/Specialization/Core Area:
Historical Studies: Theories, Methods, Skills, Historiography CEU Instructor(s):
Balázs Trencsényi CEU Instructor(s):
Gábor Klaniczay Additional information:
The seminar will consist of general introductions to the individual subfields (provided by the two instructors or some invited colleagues from the two departments specialized in the particular issue), and the regular discussion of the assigned readings. The reading list also contains an indicative list of recommended literature. The students will be familiarized with these topics and get an overview of the different approaches of the history of our region. Learning Outcomes:
Students will develop the following skills: ability for individual work, a capacity of orienting themselves in a multidisciplinary research and to compare and assess different historiographical approaches. Assessment :
Progress in the course will be evaluated as follows:
Term Paper 60%
Class Participation 40%
The term paper is a ten-page case study on one of the authors discussed during the term, chosen by the student and accepted by the instructors, linked to the themes of the seminars. Class participation means regular attendance, in-class comments and questions related to the weekly lectures and readings. Full description:
I. Jan. 13. – General introduction
II. Jan. 20. - The discourse on East-Central Europe as a historical region
(introduced by Gábor Klaniczay and Balázs Trencsényi)
Jenő Szűcs, “The Three Historical Regions of Europe. An Outline”. Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 29 (1983), 131-184; also published in Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives, ed. by John Keane (London: Verso, 1988), 291-332 [
pdf]
Recommended readings:
- Francis Dvornik, The Making of Central and Eastern Europe (London: The Polish Research Centre, 1949.
- Oscar Halecki, The Borderlands of Western Civilization. A History of East Central Europe (New York: Ronald, 1952).
- Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe. Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950—1350 (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993).
- Aleksander Gieysztor, L’Europe nouvelle autour de l’An Mil. La Papauté, l’Empire et les «nouveaux venus» (Rom, 1997)
- Gábor Klaniczay, “The Birth of a New Europe about 1000 CE: Conversion, Transfer of Institutional Models, New Dynamics,” in Johann P. Arnason and Björn Wittrock (eds.), Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2004, pp. 99-130 (especially pp. 99-108).
- Maciej Janowski, Constantin Iordachi, and Balázs Trencsényi: “Why Bother About Historical Regions? Debates Over Central Europe in Hungary, Poland and Romania,” in: East Central Europe, 2005/1-2., pp. 5-58.
III. Jan. 27. - Migration, settlement, conversion
(introduced by József Laszlovszky)
Nora Berend, ed., Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy. Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus’ c. 900-1200, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 1-46. [pdf]
Recommended readings:
Herwig Wolfram, Die Geburt Mitteleuropas : Geschichte Österreichs vor seiner Entstehung, 378-907 / Berlin : Siedler, 1987.
Walter Pohl, ed. Kingdoms of the Empire: The integration of barbarians in late Antiquity Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1997.
András Róna Tas, Hungarians and Europe in the Early Middle Ages: An introduction to early Hungarian history. Budapest : CEU Press, 1999.
Christianizing peoples and converting individuals. Edited by Guyda Armstrong and Ian N. Wood, Turnhout : Brepols, 2000.
Ian Wood, The missionary life: saints and the evangelisation of Europe, 400-1050, London : Longman, 2001.
Karol Modzelewski, L’Europe des barbares, Paris : Aubier, 2006
IV. Feb. 3. - The origins of nations and nationalism in East-Central Europe
(introduced by Gábor Klaniczay)
Jenő Szűcs, “Theoretical Elements in Master Simon of Kéza's Gesta Hungarorum (1282-1285 a.d.),” in: László Veszprémy und Frank Schaer, eds., Simonis de Kéza Gesta Hungarorum – Simon of Kéza, The Deeds of the Hungarians (Central European Medieval Texts, 1) Budapest: CEU Press, 1999, pp. XXIX-CII. [pdf]
Recommended readings:
Jenő Szűcs, Nation und Geschichte: Studien, Corvina: Budapest, 1974 (repr. in Köln: Böhlau 1984), pp. 161-244.
František Graus, Die Nationenbildung der Westslawen im Mittelalter, Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1980.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism, London: Verso, 1991
Ernest Gellner, Nationalism, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997.
František Šmahel, Die hussitische Revolution, Hannover : Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2002.
V. Feb. 10 Towns and Urbanisation in East-Central Europe
(introduced by Katalin Szende)
Bogucka, Maria, “The towns of East Central Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century,” in East Central Europe in Transition, eds. Antoni Mączak, Henryk Samsonowicz, Peter Burke. Cambridge: CUP, 1985, 97-108. [pdf]
Recommended readings:
Bácskai, Vera, “Small towns in eastern central Europe,” in: Small Towns in Early Modern Europe, ed. Peter Clark. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 77-89. [pdf]
Fügedi, Erik, „Die Ausbreitung der städtischen Lebensform – Ungarns oppida im 14. Jahrhundert,” in Stadt und Stadtherr im 14. Jahrhundert, ed. Wilhelm Rausch. Linz: Österr. Arbeitskreis für Stadtgeschichtsforschung, 1972, 165-192. [pdf]
Segregation – Integration – Assimilation. Religious and Ethnic Groups in the Medieval Towns of Central and Eastern Europe, eds. Derek Keene, Balázs Nagy and Katalin Szende. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
VI. Feb. 17. - Renaissance and Reformation in East-Central Europe
(introduced by Gábor Klaniczay)
Ernő Marosi, “Mathias, the Medieval Man. Middle Ages and Renaissance”, in Mathias the King, ed. by Péter Farbaky, Enikő Spekner, Katalin Szende and András Végh, Budapest, 2008, pp. 113-128. [pdf]
Recommended readings:
Janusz Tazbir, A state without stakes: Polish religious toleration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, New York: Kosciuszko Foundation, 1972.
Alexandru Duţu Romanian humanists and European culture: a contribution to comparative cultural history, Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1977.
Matthias Corvinus and the humanism in Central Europe, edited by Tibor Klaniczay and József Jankovics (Budapest : Balassi Kiadó, 1994).
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Court, cloister, and city: the art and culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800 / London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995.
The Reformation in National Context, edited by Bob Scribner, Roy Porter, and Mikulás Teich, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe, edited by Karin Maag, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.
VII. Feb. 24. - Byzantium after Byzantium
(introduced by Niels Gaul)
Speros Vryonis – The Byzantian legacy in the formal culture of the Balkan peoples,” in The Byzantine tradition after the fall of Constantinople / edited by John J. Yiannias Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1996), 17-44. [pdf]
Recommended readings:
Nicolae Iorga, Byzantium after Byzantium /; introduction by Virgil Cândea Iaşi : Center for Romanian Studies, 2000
Dimitri Obolensky, The Byzantine inheritance of Eastern Europe / London : Variorum, 1982
Apostolos E. Vacalopoulos, The Greek nation, 1453-1669 : the cultural and economic background of modern Greek society /translated from the Greek by Ian and Phania Moles
Halil Inalcik, The Ottoman Empire : the classical age, 1300-1600 / London : Phoenix, 1994, c1973 Descript xi, 257 p. 32 p. of ill. ; 24 cm.
VIII. March 3. - Enlightenment(s)
(introduced by László Kontler)
Éva H. Balázs , Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765-1800 : an experiment in enlightened absolutism (Budapest : CEU Press, c1997), 280-325. [pdf]
Recommended readings:
Kosáry, Domokos G., Culture and society in eighteenth-century Hungary / Budapest, 1981
Vlad Georgescu Political ideas and the enlightenment in the Romanian principalities, 1750-1831 (New York : Columbia University Press, 1971), pp. 171-187.
Jiri Kroupa, The Alchemy of Happiness: The Enlightenment in the Moravian Context,"
in: Mikuláš Teich, Bohemia in History (Cambridge: CUP, 1998), pp
Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Enlightenment, nationalism and orthodoxy : studies in the culture and political thought of Southeastern Europe / Aldershot, Hampshire : Variorum, c1994
IX. March 10. - From Agrarian Backwardness to Political Sonderwege
(introduced by Roumen Daskalov)
Andrew C. Janos, East Central Europe in the modern world : the politics of the borderlands from pre- to postcommunism (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 54-116. [pdf]
Recommended readings:
D. Chirot, Social change in a peripheral society : the creation of a Balkan colony / Daniel Chirot New York : Academic Press, c1976
Andrew C. Janos, The politics of backwardness in Hungary, 1825-1945 / Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1982
Witold Kula , An economic theory of the feudal system : towards a model of the Polish economy, 1500-1800 /; translated by Lawrence Garner London : N.L.B., 1976
Zsigmond Pál Pach Hungary and the European economy in early modern times / Aldershot, Hampshire : Variorum, 1994
Iván T. Berend, The crisis zone of Europe : an interpretation of East-Central European history in the first half of the twentieth century /; translated by Adrienne Makkay-Chambers Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986
X. March 17. - National Romanticisms and Historical Myths
(introduced by Balázs Trencsényi)
Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans (New York : Oxford University Press, 1997), 40-60. [pdf]
Recommended readings:
Andrzej Walicki, Philosophy and romantic nationalism : the case of Poland Notre Dame, Ind. Oxford : University of Notre Dame Press : Clarendon Press, 1994,
Miklós Szabó, The liberalism of the Hungarian nobility in: Liberty and the search for identity : liberal nationalisms and the legacy of empires / edited by Iván Zoltán Dénes Budapest : Central European University Press, 2006 197-239.
Otto Urban, “Czech Liberalism 1848-1918,” in: Liberty and the search for identity : liberal nationalisms and the legacy of empires / edited by Iván Zoltán Dénes Budapest : Central European University Press, 2006 197-239. 273-311.
Lucian Boia, History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness (Budapest: CEU Press, 2001), pp. 1-82.
Vladimír Macura, “Problems and paradoxes of national revival,” in: Mikuláš Teich, Bohemia in History (Cambridge: CUP, 1998), pp. 182-197.
Ivan Čolović, The politics of symbol in Serbia : essays on political anthropology /; translated from the Serbian by Celia Hawkesworth London : Hurst, 2002
XI. March 24. - Fin-de siècle Central Europe
(introduced by Gábor Gyáni)
Péter Hanák, “The Garden and the Workshop (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998), 3-43. [pdf]
Recommended readings:
Eleonóra Babejová Fin-de-siècle Pressburg : conflict & cultural coexistence in Bratislava 1897-1914 / Boulder [Colo.] : East European Monographs, 2003.
Carl Schorske, “Politics in a new key” in Fin-de-siècle Vienna: politics and culture (New York: Vintage Books, 1981), 116-180.
XII. March 31. - What was totalitarianism and what comes next?
(introduced by Balázs Trencsényi)
Katherine Verdery, What was socialism, and what comes next? / Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1996), 19-38. [pdf]
Recommended readings:
Czeslaw Milosz, The captive mind; (New York : Octagon Books, A. A. Knopf, 1953)
Gail Kligman , The politics of duplicity : controlling reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania / Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998
Ferenc Fehér, Agnes Heller, and György Márkus Dictatorship over needs / Oxford : Blackwell, 1983
Vladimir Tismaneanu , The crisis of Marxist ideology in Eastern Europe : the poverty of Utopia / London : Routledge, 1990, c1988