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The Historiography sequence of HIST 511-512 is required
of all PhD students in History, and while it may also be
taken by MA students, in all cases it should be taken
after HIST 501-502 or some other, comparable survey of
world or at least European history. This is necessary
because ''Trends, Debates, Historians'' adopts an
approach to the study of Historiography that is historical
in more than one sense. It proposes to study
methodology not in the abstract but in the concrete, as
embodied in the output of a number of great
historians living and working in the 20th century;
naturally it strives to relate each such historian
to his/her context and preferred paradigm; but it also
situates each such contribution within the framework
of the period problematic and literature to which it
pertains. This means that works studied are taken up in the
chronological order of their subject matter, i.e. of the
historical period to which they refer (rather than
by reference to their authors in chronological
sequence). Furthermore, as a side objective of the course
is to study problems of overall organization
and sustained consistency in writing synthetic books (as
opposed to research articles), in both semesters the
emphasis is on reading complete books by leading-
edge historians. Thus after opening with a few introductory
texts of a general nature plus an initial set of readings
on historians' own views of their profession, HIST 511
quickly moves into sampling works by historians
of Antiquity, followed by close readings of some
leading Medievalists. These and others are also scrutinized
for the methodological insights they might shed into
Ottoman historical studies. Controversies among Turkish
as well as European scholars on the nature of
serfdom, feudalism, or the feudal mode of production, as
well as the more recent ''feudal revolution'' debate,
are treated through special files interpolated
where necessary. Throughout, two basic questions are
repeatedly posed : From Herodotos and Thucydides,
through the 19th century, down to the present, what has
changed and what has not changed
in the practice of historians ?
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2023-2024 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2021-2022 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2019-2020 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2017-2018 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2015-2016 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2013-2014 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2010-2011 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2008-2009 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2007-2008 |
- Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2004-2005 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2003-2004 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 2001-2002 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
| Fall 1999-2000 |
Trends, Debates, Historians I |
3 |
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