All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
Programme
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The Reformation in German Historiography, 1817-1917
| German historians in the latter half of the nineteenth century understood the Protestant Reformation in mainly two ways: as an event within the German historical narrative, and as a philosophical-historical concept which had received its fullest expression by the mid 1880s. Ranke, Droysen and Treitschke's understanding of the Reformation is integral to their understanding of the idea of progress in German history and the development of the German nation. The first section of the paper will review this 'Protestant', historical perspective which came to be shared by the advocates of the 'Kleindeutsch' solution to the question of German national unification. But two additional and dissenting historical perspectives must also be considered. First, the Catholic historians Ignaz von Doellinger and Johannes Janssen, writing between 1845 and the mid 1880s, refute the positive assessment of the Reformation's contribution to German history. They do so on terms of fact and morality: the Reformation forced the German nation into a period of decline which reached its climax in Bismarck's political doctrines welding cultural Protestantism to the ascendent German nation. Second, Karl Lamprecht's 'Kulturgeschichte' - building on Burckhardt and Nietzsche - refutes the dominant political -historical tradition by seeing the realms of aesthetics and psychology as legitimate territory for historical analysis. These three perspectives developed in relation to, and in conflict with, each other, and must therefore be understood as facets of a larger historical process.
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