Syllabus
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.
Annotation
Introduction to European History is a compulsory course acquainting students with major topics of European history from antiquity up to the modern period. The course is focused on the interpretation and context of key periods, structures and processes in European history.