HISTORIOGRAPHY

1. Different perspectives of the study of History and historian’s craft.

RELIGION

2. Church and society from Late Antiquity to Middle Ages. -> 3. Reformation, secularization, anticlericalism.

STATE

4. From Ancient Rome to feudalism, absolutism and centralization. -> 5. Nation state, modern democracy and universalism, totalitarian state.

CITY

6. From Ancient “polis” to emergence of Medieval city. Culture, self-government, city states (Venice, Genoa, Hanseatic League). -> 7. Industrialization, urbanization, emergence of modern metropolis (London). Immigration, hygiene.

COUNTRYSIDE

8. Rural society, time and spirituality (survival of paganism). -> 9. Impacts of industrialization: population loss, traditionalism.

EDUCATION

10. From ancient education to monasteries, cathedral schools and emergence of universities. -> 11. Scientific revolution and enlightenment. Modern education.

12. Essay

Mandatory reading

COLEMAN, Janet. A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to Renaissance. Hoboken: Blackwell, 2000.

DEANESLY, Margaret. A History of The Medieval Church 590–1500. London: Routledge, 2005.

POUNDS, Norman J. G., The Medieval City. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

Suggested reading

ANDERSON, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 2016.

BLOCH, Marc. Feudal Society, Volume 2: Social Classes and Political Organization. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961.

DEANE, Jennifer K. A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield 2011.

FERRO, Marc. Colonization: A Global History. London: Routledge, 2005.

GELLNER, Ernst. Nations and nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

Hobsbawm, E. J., Nations and Nationalism since 1870: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

HOBSBAWM, Eric. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848. New York: Mentor, 1962.

HOLLISTER, Charles Warren. Roots of the western tradition: a short history of the ancient world. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

JUDT, Tony, SNYDER, Timothy. Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century. London: William Heinemann 2012.

KUHN, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

PIRENNE, Henri. Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.

SOUTHERN, R.W. The Making of the Middle Ages. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

ZAFIROVSKI, Milan. The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society. New York: Springer, 2010.

ZIEGLER, Philip. The Black Death. London: Penguin Books 1998.