40-1. HONOURS HISTORY A ( Ancient History)

HISTORY

35-1. EUROPEAN HISTORY A (Ions)

Mr. J. R. Parris

Students will be required to attend the lectures as for European History A (Pass), one Honour tutorial per week and one additional lecture per week during two terms of the academic year.

SYLLABUS

As for European History A in the ordinary degree, together with a special study comparing and contrasting the reforming thought and practice of Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus and the "Anabaptists".

BОOKS

(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

Chadwick, 0.—The Reformation. ( Pelican History of the Church, 3. )

*Elton, G. R.-Reformation Europe 1517-1559. ( Fontana. ) ( b ) Prescribed textbooks:

*Dillenberger, J. ( ed. )—Martin Luther. ( Anchor Paperback. ) Niebuhr, H.

R.—Christ

and Culture. (Harper Torchbacks. ) Dolan, J. P. (ed.

)—The

Essential Erasmus. (Mentor-Omega.)

*Jackson, W. T. H.

(ed. )—Essential

Works of Erasmus. (Bantam,)

*Olin, J. C. (ed,)—Christian Humanism and the Reformation.

Desderius Erasmus. ( Harper Torchbooks. )

*Winter, E.

F.—Discourse

on Free Will. ( Erasmus-Luther.) (Ungar Paperback.) (c) Further reading will be suggested during the year.

EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper in addition to the paper for the ordinary degree. Written work done during the year will be considered in determining the final results

40-1. HONOURS HISTORY A

40-2. HONOURS HISTORY В (Medieval European History)

Miss M. Gibbs

A course of lectures and tutorials for two or three hours per week; class papers and essays are required.

SYLLABUS

Three subjects will be studied from original sources in translation: the age of Bede and Boniface; the twelfth century Renaissance; the

age

of Dante. Some general reading on the origins and development of the institutions of Medieval society up to the fourteenth century will also be required.

Books

Preliminary reading during vacation:

Kirby, D.

P.—The Making of Early England. (

Ratsford, 1961.)

Keen, Maurice.—A History

of Medieval Europe.

(Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.)

Southern,

R.—The Making of the Middle Ages. (Arrow

Books or Hutchinson.) Ullrnan,

W.—Political Thought in the Middle Ages. ( Pelican. ) ..

Students are advised also to

read

the sources set for work in first term, the list of which can be obtained at the History 011ie. knowledge of Latin and/or modern European languages, especially Italian, is necessary for fourth-year work

EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper, Class work and written work done during the year will be considered in determining the result.

40-3. HONOURS HISTORY C

(Later Medieval and Early Modern European History) Mr. I. G. Robertson

A course of Iectures and tutorial classes, normally three-and-a-half hours per week, throughout the year. Class papers and an essay will be required.

SYLLABUS

A special study of the political, social, cultural and religious history of Italy from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. Some attention will also be paid to more general problems of the development of the Papacy and the Church during that period.

BOOKS

(a) General introductory reading:

Students will be assumed to have some knowledge of the general history of Europe in the period under study. Those without such knowledge are advised to read through one or two works such as the following:

tCheyney, Edward P.—The

Dawn of a New Era, 1250-1453

[1936]. (Harper Torchbooks: The Rise of Modem Europe

,

1962.)

Ferguson, Wallace K.—Europe in

Transition, 1300-1520. ( Houghton

^Mifflin Co., Boston, 1982.)

}Gilmore, Myron P.—The

World of Humanism, 1453-1517

[1952]. (Harper Torchbooks: The Rise of Modern Europe, 1962.)

Hay, Denys—Europe

in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. ( Lougmans,

1966.)

Hay, Denys (ed. )—The

Age of the

Renaissance. (Thames & Hudson, 1987.) Lopez, Robert S.—The

Birth

of

Europe.

(Eng. tr., 1966. Lend.

1967.) Waley, Daniel

—

Later Medieval Europe

from Saint

Louis to

Lug

er. ( Longmans,

Lend., 1964.)

For acquiring general background knowledge of Italian history in the period under study, students should make use of:

Hay,

Deny

s—The Italian Renaissance

in it

s Historical Background.

(G.U.Y.,

1961.

t Available in Paperbacť form.

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Laven, Peter—Renaissance Italy, 1464-1534. (Batsford, 1966.)

Luzzatto, Gino—An Economic History of Italy from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century, tr. Philip Jones. ( Rout- ledge & Kegan Paul, 1961.)

Students should also familiarise themselves with one of the great classics of historical scholarship dealing with the Italy of this period:

}Burekhardt, Jacob.—The Civilization of the Reneissance in Italy. (Various eds., including Harper Torchbook, w.2, N.Y., 1958.)

Acquaintance should also be cultivated with the great English-language classic:

Symonds, John Addington—Renaissance in Italy, vv. 7, London, 1875-1886.

The following general collections of documentary extracts may prove useful companions in following the course:

}Ross, J. B., and McLaughlin, J. B. (eds. )—The Portable Medieval Reader, (The Viking Press, 1949.)

}Ross, J. B., and McLaughlin, M. M. (eds.)—The Portable Renaissance Reader.

(The Viking Press, 1953.)

Emerton, Ephraim-Humanism and Tyranny. Studies In the Italian Trecento.

( Cambridge, Mass. 1925. )

}Cassirer, Ernst,

et al.

(eds.)-Тhe Renaissance Philosophy of Man. (Phoenix Chicago, 1948.)

}Holt, Elizabeth G. ( ed. ) A Documentary History of Art. (w. 2, N.Y., 1957-58. ) Cfr. also:

Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West: A Sourće Book pre- pared by the Contemporary Civilization Staff of Columbia College, Columbia University. (Vol. 1, 2nd ed., N.Y., 1954.)

}Brucker, Gene A. (mod.)—Renaissance Italy: Was it the Birthplace of the Modem World? ( N.Y. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1958.) ( Source Problems in World Civilization.

}Elton, G. R. ( ed. )—Renaissance and Reformation: 1300-1648. N.Y. ( Macmillan, 1963.) ( Ideas and Institutions in Western Civilization, Vol. III. ) }Burke, Peter ( ed. )—The Renaissance. ( Longman, 1964.) (Proms ems and Per-

spectives in History. )

}Weinstein. Donald ( ed. )—The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300-1600.

( The Free Press of Glencoe, N.Y., 1965. ) ( Sources in Western Civilization.) (b') Detailed reading guides will be distributed in tutorial classes.

ITALIAN AND LATIN

Some knowledge of the Italian and/or Latin languages would be of great assist- ance to students of Honours History C, although it is not an essential pre-requisite.

EXAMINATION

One three-hour paper. Class work and written work done during the year will be considered in determining the result.

40-4. HONOURS HISTORY D (Modern European History) Professor J. R. Poynter and Mr. R. Isaac

A course of seminars each week throughout the year, together with occasional lectures, a total of not more than three hours per week.

Students taking this subject are required to attend lectures in European History B.

sYLLАВUs

A study of selected themes in European history from the French Revolution to the twentieth century, with special reference to developments in France, Germany and Russia.

Books

(a) Prescribed for preliminary reading:

Rudé,

G.—

Revolutionary Europe, 1783-1805. (Fontana.) Thomson,

D.-

Europe since Napoleon. (Penguin.) (b) Recommended for reference:

Clapham, J.—The Economic Development of France and Germany. (Cambridge.) Rosenberg,

A.—Imperial

Germany. ( Beacon.)

Mosse, G. L.—The Crisis in German Ideology. (Grosset and Dunlop.) Sukkanov,

N.

—The Russian Revolution. (Harper Torchbooks. ) Schapůo,

L.

—The Origin of the Communist Autocracy. (Praeger.)

Full reading guides will be distributed during the year. See also the book list of the subject European History B for additional works in paperback editions which students should consider buying.

FRENCH LANGUAGE

A reading knowledge of French would be of great assistance to students of Honours History D.

EXAMINATION

One or two 3-hour papers. Class work and written work done during the year will be considered in determining the result.

40-5. HONOURS HISTORY E