Syllabus
6 October: Introductory session
- Peter Mandler, “The Problem with Cultural History”, Cultural and Social History, 1 (2004), 94-117.
- Brian Cowan, “Intellectual, social and cultural history: ideas in context”, Advances in Intellectual History, ed. R. Whatmore and B. Young, Palgrave, 2006, 170-188.
- Judith Surkis, “Of Scandals and Supplements: Relating Intellectual and Cultural History”, Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History, ed. D. McMahon and S. Moyn, Oxford U. P., 2014, 94-111.
13 October: Intellectual History: methods and approaches
- Richard Whatmore, What is Intellectual History?, Polity Press, 2016, ch.1 and 2 (p. 12-44).
- Quentin Skinner, “Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas”, in Visions of Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 57-89.
- Jan-Werner Müller, ‘European Intellectual History as Contemporary History’, Journal of Contemporary History 46:3 (2011), 574-90.
- Melissa Lane, ‘Doing Our Own Thinking for Ourselves: On Quentin Skinner’s Genealogical Turn’, Journal of the History of Ideas 73:1 (2012), 71-82.
20 October: Microhistory
- Carlo Ginzburg, “Spie. Radici di un paradigma indiziario”, Miti emblemi spie: morfologia e storia, Einaudi, 1986, p. 158-93. English translation: “Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm”, Clues, Myths and the Historical Method, Johns Hopkins U. P., 1989, 96-125.
- John Brewer, “Microhistory and the Histories of Everyday Life”, Cultural and Social History 7 (2010), 87-109.
- Francesca Trivellato, “Is there a Future for Italian Microhistory,” California Italian Studies 2/1 (2011), 3-26.
27 October: Mobility
with Valentina Lepri, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Valentina Lepri, Migration and Knowledge, in Eadem, Knowledge Transfer and the Early Modern University: Statecraft and Philosophy at the Akademia Zamojska (1595-1627), Leiden, Brill, 2019, chapter 2: 39 -67.
- Alan S. Ross, BA MSt, “Pupils’ choices and social mobility after the Thirty Years’ War – a quantitative study”, The Historical Journal 57/2 (2014): 311-341.
- Craig Calhoun, “Cosmopolitanism in the modern social imaginary,” Daedalus 137/3 (Summer 2008); 105-114.
- (optional) Hilde De Ridder Symoens, “Mobility”, in H. De Ridder-Symoens (ed.), A history of the university in Europe: vol. 1, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 280-285.
3 November: Mentalités
- Jacques Le Goff, “Mentalities: a new field for historians”, excerpt from Le travail de l’histoire, 1974.
- Patrick H. Hutton, “The History of Mentalities: the New Map of Cultural History”, History and Theory, 20 (1981), 237-259.
- Roger Chartier, “Intellectual History or Sociocultural History? The French Trajectories”, in Modern European Intellectual History, Cornell UP, 1982 / ‘Histoire intellectuelle et histoire des mentalités’ (1983), in Au bord de la falaise, Paris, 1998, 27-66.
10 November: Emotions
- Barbara H. Rosenwein, ‘Worrying about Emotions in History’, American Historical Review, 107 (2002), 821-45
- Peter N. Stearns, “Modern Patterns in Emotions History”, Doing Emotions History, ed. S. J. Matt and P. N. Stearns, University of Illinois Press, 2014, 17-41.
- Marco Menin, “‘Who will write the history of tears?’ History of Ideas and History of Emotions from Eighteenth-Century France to the Present”, History of European Ideas 40 (2014), 516-32.
17 November: Ideas and Technological change
- Joel Mokyr, ‘The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth’, The Journal of Economic History, 65 (2005), 285-351
- MaxineBerg, “Useful knowledge, ‘industrial enlightenment’, and the place of India”, Journal of Global History, 8 (2013), 117-41
- Daniel Lord Smail, On Deep History and the Brain, University of California Press, 2007, 157-189.
24 November: Cultural Transfers
- James A. Secord, “Knowledge in Transit”, Isis 95 (2004), 654-672
- Michel Espagne, “Comparison and Transfer: A Question of Method”, Transnational Challenges to National History Writing, ed. M. Middell & L. Roura, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p. 36-53.
- Michael Werner and Bénédicte Zimmermann, “Beyond comparison: histoire croisée and the challenge of reflexivity”, History and Theory 45 (February 2006), p. 30-50
1 December
11:00-12:50: Print Culture
- Robert Darnton, “‘What is the history of books?’ revisited”, Modern Intellectual History, 4 (2007), 495-508.
- Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book (1998): conclusion (electronic resource); the Introduction is also interesting.
- James Raven, “New reading histories, print culture and the identification of change: the case of eighteenth-century England”, Social History 23 (1998), 268-87.
14:50-17:00, (Sala del Torrino): The Post-Human
- Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Critical Inquiry 35/2 (Winter 2009), pp.197-222.
- Loraine Daston, “Intelligences: Angelic, Animal, Human,” in Daston and Mitman, Thinking with Animals (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), 37-58.
- Richard Bulliet, “Post-Domesticity: Our Lives with Animals,” in Bulliet, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of the Human-Animal Relationship (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 1-35.