Sekund?rlitteratur:
- Historiografi:
Lloyd Kramer og Sarah Maza (red.), A Companion to Western Historical Thought, London: Blackwell, 2006. Les innledning og kap. 2-6, 9, 11.
John Burrows, A History of Histories, London: Penguin Books, 2007. Les kap. 1, 8, 12, 18, 21 og 22.
Peter Foote, "Introduction", Olaus Magnus, Description of the Northern Peoples (London: Hakluyt society, 1996), vol. I, pp. xiii-lxxxix.
Northrop Frye, “The Decline of the West, by Oswald Spengler”, Daedalus, Vol. 103., No. 1, 1974, 1-13.
J. R. McNeill, “The World According to Jared Diamond”, The History Teacher, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2001.
- Historieteori:
Francois Hartog, “Time, History and the Writing of History: The Order of Time”, KVHAA Konferenser 37, Stockholm, 1996, 95-113.
Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past. On the Semantics of Historical Time. New York, Columbia University Press, 2004, les kap. 1-2, 9, 14.
George H. Nadler, “Philosophy of History before Historicism”, History and Theory, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1964, 291-315.
Prim?rkilder:
Herodot, Historie, bok 1. Tilgjengelig via NB: https://www.nb.no/items/fea94e4da115542c953706bae74fce8d?page=13&searchText=Herodot%20Historie
Tacitus, ?rb?kene, bok 15. Tilgjengelig via NB: https://www.nb.no/items/5ce8cfe525eb135b4ac54ff67d566e30?page=11&searchText=Tacitus%20%C3%85rb%C3%B8kene
Augustin, De civitate dei/Gudsstaten, les bok 4-5, 14 og 18; dvs. s. 62-80, 155-172, 223-238. Tilgjengelig via NB med innlogging i FEIDE: https://www.nb.no/search?q=Augustin%20Gudsstaten&mediatype=b%C3%B8ker
Joachim av Fiore, Liber de Concordia novi ac veteris testamenti/Boken om samsvaret mellom det nye og det gamle testamentet, utdrag i pdf i Canvas.
Leonardo Bruni, Historiarum Florentini populi libri XII/History of the Florentine Peoples, 1442, utdrag i pdf i Canvas.
Olaus Magnus, Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus/Historia om de nordiska folken, 1555, utdrag i pdf i Canvas.
William Robertson, A View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the beginning of the Sixteenth Century, Bind I av The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V, 1769, les del (section) I. En senere utgave tilgjengelig digitalt her:
Jules Michelet, On History, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2013. Les: “Preface to History of France”, 135-161. Tilgjengelig fra: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader.php/172?172#page/4/mode/2up
Oswald Spengler, Der Untergang des Abendlandes/The Decline of the West, 1918-1922, les innledningen, s. 1-50. Tilgjengelig p? engelsk fra: https://archive.org/details/Decline-Of-The-West-Oswald-Spengler/page/n1
Jared Diamond, V?pen, pest og st?l. Menneskehetens historie gjennom 13 000 ?r. Oslo: Spartacus, 2011 [1997], les s. 13-47, 407-431 (Innledning, forord, prolog og epilog).