Spain. Name and Idea Through the Centuries 3700-CS-F-HNI
Seminar on history of Spain from pre-historic times till contemporaneousness. Main stress will be laid on term “Spain”, its evolution through the centuries and the actual situation.
The aim of the seminar on history of Spain is not only a highlight of most important issues related to the past of this Iberian country, but also a deep analysis of events and historical, cultural and social processes and political movements, which - as it occurred with time - influenced in change of the meaning of term “Spain”.
The seminar will be realized in a chronological-subject scheme, in the framework of twelve main parts.
Subject 1: First inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula
Subject 2: Romanisation of the Iberian Peninsula (III century B.C. – V A.D.)
Subject 3: Visigothian Spain and beginnings of feudalism (6-8th centuries)
Subject 4: Al-Andalus. Christian kingdoms (8-14th centuries)
Subject 5: Spanish dynastic union: Catholic Kings (1474-1516)
Subject 6: Birth and fall of the Empire (16-17th centuries)
Subject 7: A new dynasty: Bourbons in Spain (18th century)
Subject 8: Spanish War of Independence. “Nation under arms” (1808-1814)
Subject 9: Constitutional unity of the monarchy
Subject 10: Creation of a liberal state (1843-1868) and of a democratic Spain (1868-1874)
Subject 11: Nationalisms and meaning of term „Spain” in 20th century
Subject 12: History of Spain from current perspective. Social changes and challenges.
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Assessment criteria
Seminar will be credited according to the attendance list, active participation and (only for volunteers) with a short written work for a better note (higher that 3); number of possible absences – 2.
The third and forth absence could be credited individually.
Five and more absences make no possibility to credit the subject.
Bibliography
Bennasar, Bartolomé, Historia de los españoles, 2 vols., Barcelona 1989.
Domínguez Ortiz, Antonio, España. Tres milenios de Historia, Madrid 2000.
García de Cortázar, Fernando, Biografía de España, Barcelona 1998.
--- Los mitos de la Historia de España, Barcelona 2004.
--- Historia de España. De Atapuerca al euro, Barcelona 2004.
García de Cortázar, Fernando (Dir.), Memoria de España, Madrid 2004.
García de Cortázar, Fernando and González Vesga, José Manuel, Breve Historia de España, Madrid 1994.
Marías, Julián, España inteligible. Razón histórica de las Españas, Madrid 2002.
Miłkowski, Tadeusz and Machcewicz, Paweł, Historia Hiszpanii, Wrocław 1998.
Palacio Atard, Vicente (Ed.), De Hispania a España. El nombre y el concepto a través de los siglos, Madrid 2005.
Pérez, Joseph, Historia de España, Barcelona 1999.
España. Reflexiones sobre el ser de España, Madrid 1997.
Ubieto, Antonio; Reglá, Juan; Jover, José María y Seco, Carlos, Introducción a la Historia de España, Barcelona 1983
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