645108 UE Sources and Studies in Modern Times: Personal Testimonials and Ego-Documents in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
winter semester 2021/2022 | Last update: 11.05.2021 | Place course on memo listAcquisition of competences and a critical attitude in dealing with historical sources and accounts of modern history as well as the ability to present the attained knowledge in oral and written form.
Documents, in which historical actors expressed (or pretended to express) their views and motives for action, provide an illuminating access to the subjective appropriation of structures and processes and to the latters’ social embeddedness. Among other things, this offers the opportunity to examine macro-theses through the experience of contemporaries. In the tutorial we will acquire some theoretical and methodical basics of research on ego-documents and apply them to sources from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries.
Reading, analysis and discussion of sources and secondary literature; group work; short presentations by students
Regular and active participation; short presentation or essay; small written exam at the end of term
Winfried Schulze (ed.), Ego-Dokumente. Annäherung an den Menschen in der Geschichte, Berlin 1996; Kaspar von Greyerz / Hans Medick / Patrice Veit (eds.), Von der dargestellten Person zum erinnerten Ich. Europäische Selbstzeugnisse als historische Quellen (1500-1850), Köln / Weimar / Wien 2001; Eckart Henning, Selbstzeugnisse. Quellenwert und Quellenkritik, Berlin 2012
Online registration necessary! Willingness to read English texts is expected. Before attending this course it is recommended to complete the VO Basic Knowledge of Modern History.
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