Core Texts and Further Reading
History Component
Students are strongly advised to read their respective core text in advance of the first 'Language for Historians' seminar in the spring term. Several copies are available in the Library, but it is anticipated that demand will increase in the run-up to the summer exam. Language groups may wish to agree 'time windows' to ensure equitable access to these texts.
French Core Text
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Carnival in Romans: Mayhem and Massacre in a French City, trans. Mary Feeney (London: Phoenix, 2003)
German Core Text
Peter Blickle, Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in Sixteenth-Century Germany, trans. Thomas Dunlap (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1992)
Italian Core Text
Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, trans. John & Anne Tedeschi (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992)
Spanish Core Text
Henry Kamen, Spain’s Road to Empire: The Making of a World Power, 1492—1763 (London: Allen Lane, 2002)
General Historiographical Surveys For Wider Context
P. Burke (ed.), New Perspectives on Historical Writing (1991)
Q. Skinner (ed.), The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences (1990)
G. Walker (ed.), Writing Early Modern History (2005)
Language Component
The precise texts may vary from year to year, but will always be the non-English versions of the core texts listed above:
French Core Text
E. Le Roy Ladurie, Le Carnaval de Romans (1979)
German Core Text
Blickle, Peter, Gemeindereformation (1987)
Italian Core Text
C. Ginzburg, I benandanti (2002)
Spanish Core Text
Henry Kamen, Imperio - La forja de España como potencial mundial (2003)