cah3hoh a history of histories
A HISTORY OF HISTORIES
CAH3HOH
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Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In this subject, students focus on histories as they emerged in the ancient Greek and Roman eras, and/or in medieval-to-early-modern eras (Pagan, Catholic, Orthodox or Islamic). The subject traces adaptations and innovations in the whys and the ways of histories. You identify how the writing of history has re-branded itself over time. Historians you choose might include Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Eusebius, Procopius, Froissart, Commynes, Bruni, Ibn Khaldun, Valla, Guiccardini and Gibbon. After an overview, students focus (across any two eras) on genre changes either of histories of states and empires at war, or of annals or chronicles, or of biography and memoir, or of ethnography. Whatever the two eras chosen, students either frame an in-depth analysis of change in genre, agendas, audience, tropes and sources, or they contrast how histories compared to biography, ethnography, art, religious rites or values, or architecture evident then.
SchoolHumanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorAdrian Jones
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 3 - UG
Available as ElectiveNo
Learning ActivitiesLectures, Tutorials, Online discussion groups, Essays
Capstone subjectYes
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Prerequisites Students must have completed a Level two subject in either Archaeology, Mediterranean Studies or History
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A History of Histories
Resource TypeBook
Resource RequirementPrescribed
AuthorJohn Burrow
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PublisherAllen Lane/Penguin or Knopf
ISBN9780140283792
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