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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1) What is the history and why to study history. The development of history as a discipline in the context of the development of arts and sciences. Thucydides and Herodotus - "two fathers and two directions historiography. Art history or science? Characteristic methods and their development. 2) History as text. History, historicism and the social logic of the text. 3) Philosophy of history. The problem of causality, as the problem of history and human thought in general. 4) Historical Sociology 5) Knowledge of historical practice. Knowledge of the sources. Logic and history (induction and deduction, direct and indirect methods, diachronic and synchronic, progressive and retrospective analysis) 6) Quantitative methods. Statistics in historical reality - an introduction to statistics 7) Visual sources. Iconographic analysis of images in practice. 8) Procedures. Model analysis, the method of comparative, typological, macro analysis and microanalysis. 9) Current trends in the methodology of historical research and their roots 10) French Annales School 11) Italian microhistory 12) "A linguistic turn", postmodernism and the" end of history "
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The course is an interdisciplinary overview the most important methods in history. Attention will be focused specifically on the history (history) as text - that is how history was written (composed) and how to write history transformed. Text was and still is the most important source of history with which works as well which often is identified. Methods of historical research will be studied along with the personalities and schools bring to the attention of: quantitative methods, the use of visual sources, etc. The penetration of this happens in other disciplines historians awareness and thus the emergence of "frontier fields": historical sociology, art history or thinking. The course will examine some historical trends today, but their roots in the 20th century. Attention will be paid to the development of methods of historical research and current debate about its direction.
Students will acquire an overview of the most important historical methods.
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Prerequisites
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The basic knowledge of historical events.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay
1) Translate essay (the translation will be based on the texts read in the class) or write critical paper on chosen topic.
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Recommended literature
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Appleby, Joyce - Hunt, Lynn - Jacob, Margaret. Jak říkat pravdu o historii, Praha 2002.
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Atkinson, R. Knowledge and Explanation in History. An Introduction to the Philosophy of History. New York 1993.
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Burke, Peter. New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Polity Press, Cambridge 1991.
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Marek, Jaroslav. O historismu a dějepisectví. Praha 1993.
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Popper, R. Karl. Bída historicismu. Praha 1994.
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Zwettler, O. Vaculík, J. Čapka, F. Úvod do studia dějepisu. Brno 1994.
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