Discussion Topics

- 'Core Text' authors and contexts
- Reception and impact of works
- Student group presentations on key aspects

 
Supplementary reading

• A. Budd, The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources (2008)
• P. Burke (ed.), New Perspectives on Historical Writing (1991)
• Q. Skinner (ed.), The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences (1985)
• G. Walker (ed.), Writing Early Modern History (2005)

Examples of Reviews

• Examples can be found in: English Historical Review; History; Journal of Early Modern History; Sixteenth Century Journal

See Also

• 'Language for Historians' module website
• LANGUAGES, WRITING AND REVIEWING SKILLS PAGES.
• HISTORIOGRAPHY - Year 3 core module website