A HISTORY OF HISTORIES
CAH3HOH
Not currently offered
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.
School: Humanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Adrian Jones
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG
Available as Elective: No
Learning Activities: Lectures, Tutorials, Online discussion groups, Essays
Capstone subject: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: Students must have completed a Level two subject in either Archaeology, Mediterranean Studies or History
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: N/A
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Minimum credit point requirement: N/A
Assumed knowledge: N/A
Learning resources
A History of Histories
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Prescribed
Author: John Burrow
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Publisher: Allen Lane/Penguin or Knopf
ISBN: 9780140283792
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Career Ready
Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A
Entire subject or partial subject: N/A
Total hours/days required: N/A
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