Course Content (Syllabus)
The seminar aims at familiarizing students with, and stimulating debate about, the aims and methods of the discipline of History. The issues to be debated include: the History of History; Sources and technical skills for their analysis; Historical interpretation; The nature of historical knowledge; Causality and determinism; Societies and individuals; Objectivity and its limits; Researching and Writing History essays and papers.
Additional bibliography for study
E.H. Carr, Τι είναι Ιστορία (1999).
M. Bloch, Απολογία για την Ιστορία (1994).
Θ. Βέικος, Θεωρία και Μεθοδολογία της Ιστορίας (1987).
J.L. Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002).