82419 - Politics and Historiography of the Modern Age (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student can move from knowledge of events to reflection on historical facts, through both 1) the conceptions and views of contemporaries in the course of time and 2) of the current different interpretations of those events, Historical facts and conceptions.

Course contents

90 years and not hear them!

The adventure of the «Annales» and the relevance of the «Nouvelle Histoire»

Taking its cue from the 90th anniversary of the publication «Annales d'histoire économique et sociale», the course aims to retrace the adventure of «Nouvelle Histoire», the historiographical movement that most contributed to the renewal of historical research.

In the same year in which one of the most important crises in the history of world capitalism occurred, at the University of Strasbourg, the historians Marc Bloch (1886-1944) and Lucien Febvre (1878-1956) inaugurated a new scientific journal that intended to put emphasis on economic and social phenomena.

The expression of New History was coined in the seventies, when the activity of historians began to emerge from university perimeters, to reach a wider public through the use of the media. It was a "new" story only for "non-specialists", but which had inspired and guided the "making of history" under different latitudes for half a century, seducing and enticing a growing number of historians.

The course will retrace the steps that led first to the birth of the «Annales», treating later on the protagonists, the institutions and the different historiographical currents, twinned by the robust trunk of the «Nouvelle Histoire» (history of mentalities, gender history, cultural history, history of feelings and emotions, etc.), arriving at the contemporary trends of historical inquiry.

In the sign of continuity with the previous module (History of Europe in the Modern Age), we will better understand how the renewal proposed by the Nouvelle Histoire starts from the new conception of royalty that Bloch inaugurated with his Rois thaumaturges in 1924, and that will largely influence the dynastic history of France

 

Readings/Bibliography

In addition to the lecture notes, you will choose between the following texts:

 

- P. Chaunu, La durata, lo spazio e l'uomo nell'epoca moderna. La storia come scienza sociale, Napoli, Liguori, 1963;

- M. Bloch, La strana disfatta. Testimonianza scritta nel 1940, seguita da Scritti della clandestinità, 1942-1944, Napoli, Guida, 1970;

- G. Duby - B. Geremek, La storia e altre passioni, a cura di P. , Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1993;

- A. Dupront, Il presente cattolico. Potenza della religione, latenza del religioso, Torino, Bollati Boringheri, 1993;

- M. Bloch, La guerra e le false notizie. Ricordi (1914-1915) e riflessioni (1921), Roma, Donzelli, 1994;

- R. Romano, Braudel e noi. Riflessioni sulla cultura storica del nostro tempo, Roma, Donzelli, 1995;

- M. Bloch, Storici e storia, Torino, Einaudi, 1997;

- L. Febvre, Onore e patria, Roma, Donzelli, 1997;

- M. de Certeau, La scrittura della storia, Roma, Il pensiero scientifico, 1977;

- E. Garin, Intervista sull'intellettuale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997;

- C. Violante, Uno storico europeo tra guerra e dopoguerra: Henri Pirenne, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997;

- F. Braudel, Storia misura del mondo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998;

- J. Le Goff, Conque personaggi del passato per il nostro presente. Buddha, Abelardo, san Francesco, Michelet, Bloch, Como, IBS, 2002;

- E.J. Hobsbawm, Anni interessanti. Autobiografia di uno storico, a cura di B. Lotti, Milano, Rizzoli, 2004;

- P. Bourdieu, Questa non è un'autobiografia. Elementi di autoanalisi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2005;

- M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere dello storico, Torino, Einaudi, 2005;

- M. Vovelle, Le parole della Rivoluzione, Bologna, BUP, 2006;

- N. Zemon Davis, La passione della storia. Un dialogo con Denis Crouset, Roma, Viella, 2007;

- M. Vovelle, La Rivoluzione francese spiegata a mia nipote, Torino, Einaudi, 2007;

- R. Koselleck, Storia. La formazione del concetto moderno, Bologna, CLUEB, 2009;

- A che serve la storia? I saperi umanistici alla prova della modernità, a cura di P. Bevilacqua, Roma, Donzelli, 2011;

- P. Bourdieu - R. Chartier, Il sociologo e lo storico. Dialogo sull'uomo e la società, Bari, Dedalo, 2011;

- M. Angelini, Fare storia. Culture e pratiche della ricerca in Italia da Gioacchino Volpe a Federico Chabod, Roma, Carocci, 2012;

- Traversate d'Occidente. Conversazioni con Michel de Certeau, Milano, Medusa, 2014;

- J. Le Goff, Il tempo continuo della storia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014;

- D. Napoli, Michel de Certeau: lo storico smarrito, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2014;

- J. Le Goff - J.-P. Vernant, Dialogo sulla storia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2015;

- D. Ciampitti, Le Annales di Fernand Braudel : la storia nuova e il nuovo storico : il metodo della longue durée e l'eredità di una storia globale, Roma, LSE, 2015;

- P. Nora, Come si manipola la memoria. Lo storico, il potere, il passato, a cura di P. Infantino, Brescia, La Scuola, 2016;

- Il faro dell'umanità: Jacques Le Goff e la storia, a cura di B. Borghi, Bologna, Patron, 2016;

- S. Gruzinski, Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2016;

- La gioventù degli storici e delle storiche, a cura di L. Pupilli e M. Severini, Fano, Aras, 2018;

- G.P. Romagnani, Storia della storiografia. Dall'antichità a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2019.

Teaching methods

Lectures in the classroom and seminar activities.

Assessment methods

For students attending

Attending students are required to prepare a paper of about ten folders (20,000 characters, spaces included), to be presented in class during the course in a seminar course, and an oral interview.

The paper, accompanied by notes and bibliography, will have to critically retrace one of the readings in the program assigned by the teacher, must show a mature capacity for analysis and synthesis, bringing out the distinctive traits of the character.

The oral interview will focus on the topics covered during the lessons, on the reports heard in the classroom and on the topics covered in two seminars of the cycle: "Sources and methodologies of historical research".

 

For students not attending

For those not attending the exam will be held exclusively in oral form and will focus on two texts agreed upon personally, with adequate advance, with the teacher.

 

No exam program will be agreed by email.

 

The present course (6CFU) is a component of the Integrated Course History of the Modern Age C.I. (LM). If the student has the Integrated Course (12CFU) in his / her study plan, the final grade will result from the arithmetic average of the marks obtained in the two components (History of Europe in the Modern Age 1, and Politics and Historiography of the Modern Age 2).

 

Information about the dates of the calls and how to apply the examination will be regularly published on the web page teachers: http://www.unibo.it/docenti/simona.negruzzo.

 

Teaching tools

Powerpoint presentations

Office hours

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