viii. HONOUR SCHOOL OF MODERN HISTORY. (i) Statute. [Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. I. C.] § 8. Of the Honour School of Modern History. 1. The Examinations in the School of Modern History shall be (1) A Previous Examination; (2) A Final Examination. Previous Examination. 2. The subjects of the Previous Examination shall be (1) Outlines of European History from 285 A. D. to 1878 A. D., or of some period thereof to be prescribed by the Board of the Faculty of Modern History. Every candidate shall be required to show an adequate knowledge of the geography of the countries of which the history is offered, and of its influence upon their general development. (2) Original Texts, to be prescribed by the Board of the Faculty of Modern History, illustrating either Ancient, or Mediaval, or Modern History. (3) Unprepared Translation from Greek, Latin, French, German, and Italian. Every candidate must satisfy the Examiners in at least one ancient and one modern language. No candidate shall offer more than three languages. (4) The elements of Economic Theory. 3. The Board of the Faculty of Modern History shall by notice from time to time make regulations respecting the above-mentioned branches of examination, and shall have power to prescribe books or portions of books for the study of the above-mentioned subjects. 4. The Examiners shall make and publish a list of the candidates who have satisfied them in the whole of the subjects of the Previous Examination, and shall specify which of such candidates have been adjudged by them worthy of distinction. Final Examination. 5. The Final Examination in the School of Modern History shall always include (1) The continuous History of England; (2) General History during some period, selected by the Candidate from periods to be named from time to time by the Board of the Faculty; (3) A special Historical subject, carefully studied with reference to original authorities. 6. Every Candidate shall be required to have a knowledge of Constitutional Law, and of Political and Descriptive Geography. 7. A subject or period of Literature may also be added as an optional subject. 8. No Candidate shall be admitted to examination in this School unless he has passed the First Public Examination, or is qualified for admission under the provisions of Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. I. cl. 6, or is an Affiliated, Indian, Colonial, or Foreign Senior Student, or has obtained Honours in another Final Honour School. 9. The Board of the Faculty of Modern History shall, by notice from time to time, make regulations respecting the above-named branches of examination, and shall have power (1) To name certain periods of general History, and to fix their limits; (2) To suggest special Historical subjects, or subjects or periods of Literature, prescribing particular authorities where they think it desirable. 10. Candidates proposing to offer any subject or period of Literature included in the list suggested by the Board of the Faculty, shall give notice to the Assistant Registrar not later than the Saturday of the eighth week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination. Candidates proposing to offer a special Historical subject or any subject or period of Literature not included in the said list must submit it to the approval of the Board at such time, not being later than the Wednesday of the second week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination, as the Board shall prescribe. II. Subject to such Regulations as the Board of the Faculty may make from time to time, Candidates shall be allowed, but not required, to present as part of the Examination a thesis on some question within any special subject offered by them in the Examination. 12. No Candidate shall be allowed to offer in the School of Modern History any select portion of legal or historical study which he has already offered in the School of Jurisprudence. 13. The Examination in the special Historical subject may be omitted by Candidates who do not aim at a place in the First or Second Class. 14. The Board of the Faculty may include in the Examination, either as necessary or as optional, other subjects which they may deem suitable to be studied in connexion with Modern History, including translation from foreign languages of passages not specially prepared, and may prescribe books or portions of books in any language. (ii) Regulations of the Board of the Faculty. (a) PREVIOUS EXAMINATION. 1. Outlines of European History, one of these two periods, either (A) 800 A.D. to 1494 A.D., or (B) 1494 A.D. to 1789 A.D. Candidates will not be examined in any particular books, but they are recommended to read: For Period (A) Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ed. Bury), chapters 49 to 70, omitting chapters 54 and 63; Bryce, The Holy Roman Empire. For Period (B) Ranke, Latin and Teutonic Nations (ed. Bell & Sons, 1909); Häusser, The Period of the Reformation (Eng. Trans., 1885); Sorel, L'Europe et la Révolution, vol. I. Every Candidate is required by the Statute to show an adequate knowledge of the geography of the countries of which the history is offered, and of its influence upon their general development. 2. Original texts, either Tacitus, Germania, with Aristotle, Politics, Books I and III; or Einhard, Vita Karoli, with Joinville, Vie de S. Louis, and Dante, De Monarchia, Book I; or Saint-Simon, Extraits des Mémoires (published by J. M. Dent & Son), with Rousseau, Contrat social, and Sully, Economies royales, Selections from (ed. Chailley, Paris, 1888). 3. Unprepared Translation from Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian. Every Candidate must, by the Statute, satisfy the Examiners in at least one ancient and one modern language, and no Candidate shall offer more than three languages. 4. Elements of Economic Theory, to be studied in Gide, Principles of Political Economy (Eng. Trans. 1912), omitting Bk. III (‘The Circulation of Wealth'). (b) FINAL HONOUR EXAMINATION. The subjects of examination in this School are: I. The History of England. A. Continuous Constitutional History: (1) A General Paper on Constitutional History; (2) Alternative papers on Constitutional Documents either up to 1485, or from 1485. B. Continuous Political History to 1885. II. A period of General History. III. Political Science and Political Economy with Economic History. But Candidates who do not aim at a place in the First or Second Class may omit either Political Science, or Political Economy with Economic History. IV. Every Candidate is required by the Statute to have a knowledge of Constitutional Law and of Political and Descriptive Geography. V. A paper of unprepared translation from French, German, and Italian. All Candidates will be required to satisfy the Examiners in one of these languages, and may offer more than one. Candidates who fail to satisfy the Examiners in one Language may be refused a place in the Class List. VI. (In the case of those Candidates who aim at a place in the First or Second Class), a Special Subject carefully studied with reference to original authorities. HISTORY OF ENGLAND. A. Constitutional History. The following books are recommended :- I. Stubbs, Constitutional History; Hallam, Constitutional History; Dicey, Law of the Constitution; Anson, Law and Custom, of the Constitution (particularly Vol. I, fourth edition, chapters iv, v, ix, and Vol. II, third edition, chapters ii, v, vii, x). II. Stubbs, Select Charters (ed. Davis); Prothero, Statutes and Constitutional Documents; Gardiner, Select Documents of the Puritan Revolution; Robertson, Select Statutes, Cases, and Documents; Egerton, Federations and Unions in the British Empire. Candidates will be expected to study either Stubbs, Select Charters (ed. Davis), excluding Dialogus de Scaccario and Modus tenendi Parliamentum, or the principal Constitutional documents in Prothero, Gardiner, Robertson, and Egerton. By 'documents' shall be understood Acts of Parliament, judicial decisions, and official State papers. B. Political History to 1885. No books are suggested, but Candidates will be expected to show in the examination (1) such knowledge of the general outlines of the Political History of England as may be gathered from a modern textbook; (2) such a knowledge of Geography, Political and Descriptive, as is necessary to the understanding of the Political History of England; (3) proficiency in some of the following aspects of the Political History of England, viz :--- (a) Biographies of great statesmen ; (6) Ecclesiastical History and Religious Movements; (c) English Literature in its relation to History; (d) Foreign Relations (European); (e) The History of Scotland and Ireland from the twelfth century, so far as they are connected with the History of England; (f) The History of English Colonies and Dependencies; (g) Military and Naval History; (h) General Social History. GENERAL HISTORY. One of the following periods: 1. 285-604. 2. 476-919. 3. 919-1273. 4. 1273-1519. 5. 1414-1598. 6. 1559-1715. 7. 1715-1815. 8. 1789-1878. In studying the selected periods of General History, Candidates. will be expected to make themselves acquainted with the Social and Literary History of their period, and also with the Geography necessary for understanding it. The following books are recommended by the Board, not as compulsory subjects of examination, but for the purpose of indicating sources of information which will be found useful for the course of study required for the Examination in this School :— |