Having completed this course, you:
* have acquired basic knowledge of the history of history-writing and understanding of the (dis)continuities between premodern and modern historical scholarship;
* have acquired basic knowledge of the key paradigms in historiography and their seven attributes: objectives, determining factors, topics, concepts, methods, sources and style.
* are able to identify and evaluate the characteristics of a paradigm in a historical study;
* are able to reflect on the above orally and in writing;
* are able to participate in the discussion during the seminar sessions.
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This course offers an introduction into the history of history-writing (i.e., historiography) from ancient times to the present. The first half of the course provided you with a basic understanding of historcial thinking and history-writing in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance up until the 18th century. The second half of the course is focused on more in-depth knowledge the key transitions and approaches of modern academic history-writing and for the second half of the twentieth century in particular: the age of historism, the rise to prominence of social and economic history, „new cultural history“ and the renewal of political history.
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