Course syllabus

 

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HISTORY 711 A/B: Texts and Contexts

SEMESTER 1, 2018

30 points (A/B combined)

 
Course Convenor: 

Jonathan Scott - jonathan.scott@auckland.ac.nz

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Course delivery format:

One two hour seminar per week.

(Timetable and room details can be viewed on Student Services Online)

 Summary of Course Description:              

Texts and Contexts links aspects of the history of ideas (historical, political, religious, scientific, legal and cultural) to the modes of their transmission (objects, performances, languages, spoken, manuscript and printed texts). It relates a wide variety of texts to the cultural as well as historical circumstances of their generation and reception. It asks how our awareness of these contexts should affect the historical interpretation of such materials, while introducing methodological issues of more general importance to history as a discipline.

 The full syllabus for 2018 can be downloaded here

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