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What is Microhistory?

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon,István M. Szijártó
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Author : Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon,István M. Szijártó
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135047078

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What is Microhistory? by Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon,István M. Szijártó Pdf

This unique and detailed analysis provides the first accessible and comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, methodology of microhistory – one of the most significant innovations in historical scholarship to have emerged in the last few decades. The introduction guides the reader through the best-known example of microstoria, The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, and explains the benefits of studying an event, place or person in microscopic detail. In Part I, István M. Szijártó examines the historiography of microhistory in the Italian, French, Germanic and the Anglo-Saxon traditions, shedding light on the roots of microhistory and asking where it is headed. In Part II, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon uses a carefully selected case study to show the important difference between the disciplines of macro- and microhistory and to offer practical instructions for those historians wishing to undertake micro-level analysis. These parts are tied together by a Postscript in which the status of microhistory within contemporary historiography is examined and its possibilities for the future evaluated. What is Microhistory? surveys the significant characteristics shared by large groups of microhistorians, and how these have now established an acknowledged place within any general discussion of the theory and methodology of history as an academic discipline.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Mary Roach
Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Book PDF

Author : Mary Roach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780393348743

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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach Pdf

The irresistible, ever-curious, and always bestselling Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm that people carry around inside.

The Cheese and the Worms

Carlo Ginzburg
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Author : Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421409887

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The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg Pdf

"Offers a study of culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. This book illustrates the confusing political and religious conditions of the time"--Publisher marketing.

Minor Knowledge and Microhistory

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon,David Olafsson
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Author : Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon,David Olafsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317607816

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Minor Knowledge and Microhistory by Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon,David Olafsson Pdf

This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in the everyday life of the peasantry. The focus is on the history of education and communication in a global perspective. Rather than engaging in comparing different countries or regions, the authors seek to view and study early modern and modern manuscript culture as a transnational (or transregional) practice, giving agency to its ordinary participants and attention to hitherto overlooked source material. Through a microhistorical lens, the authors examine the strength of this aspect of popular culture and try to show it in a wider perspective, as well as asking questions about the importance of this development for the continuity of the literary tradition. The book is an attempt to explain “the nature of the literary culture” in general – how new ideas were transported from one person to another, from community to community, and between regions; essentially, the role of minor knowledge in the development of modern men.

A Poisoned Past

Steven Bednarski
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Author : Steven Bednarski
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442604773

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A Poisoned Past by Steven Bednarski Pdf

This is the story of Margarida de Portu, a medieval French woman accused of poisoning her husband to death. Through the depositions and accusations made in court, the reader learns not only about Margarida herself, but also about medieval women, female agency, kin networks, solidarity, sex, sickness, medicine, and law. Unlike most histories, this compelling book does not remove the author from the analysis. Rather, it lays bare the working method of the historian, helping the reader learn how historians "do" history and discover the rewards and pitfalls of working with primary sources. The book opens with a chapter on microhistory as a genre, explaining its strengths, weaknesses, and inherent risks. It then tells the narrative of Margarida's criminal trial, including chapters on the civil suits, appeal, and Margarida's eventual fate. A map of late medieval Manosque is provided, as well as an example of a court notary's rough copy, a notarial act, a sample folio of a criminal inquest record. A timeline of Margarida?s life, list of characters, and two family trees provide useful information on key people in the story.

Microhistories

Barry Reay
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Author : Barry Reay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521892228

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Microhistories by Barry Reay Pdf

This 1996 book uses a local study to explore some of the more significant societal changes of the modern western world.

Roman Tales

Thomas V. Cohen
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Author : Thomas V. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351699433

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Roman Tales: A Reader’s Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory. This book draws the reader deep into eight stories: a Christian-Jewish picnic plus an ill-aimed stone fight, an embassy-driven attack on Rome's police, a magic prophetic mirror, an immured mad hermit, a stolen dwarf, and the bizarre misadventures of a stolen roll of velvet, a truly odd elopement, and a thieving child who treats his cronies to dinner at the inn. It meditates on the resources and lacunae that shape the telling of these stories and, through them, it models an historical method that contrives to turn the limits of our knowledge into an advantage by writing honestly and movingly, to bring a dead past back to life, exemplifying and stretching the genre of microhistory. It also discusses strategies for teaching through intensive use of old documents, with a particular focus on criminal tribunal papers. Engagingly written, Roman Tales outlines the main principles of microhistorical research and draws the reader outwards towards a wider exploration and discovery of sixteenth-century Rome. It is ideal for researchers of microhistory, and of medieval and early modern Italy.

Neighbours of Passage

Fabrice Langrognet
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Author : Fabrice Langrognet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000549683

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Neighbours of Passage by Fabrice Langrognet Pdf

The book is a sociocultural microhistory of migrants. From the 1880s to the 1930s, it traces the lives of the occupants of a housing complex located just north of the French capital, in the heart of the Plaine-Saint-Denis. Starting in the 1870s, that industrial suburb became a magnet for working-class migrants of diverse origins, from within France and abroad. The author examines how the inhabitants of that particular place identified themselves and others. The study looks at the role played, in the construction of social difference, by interpersonal contacts, institutional interactions and migration. The objective of the book is to carry out an original experiment: applying microhistorical methods to the history of modern migrations. Beyond its own material history, the tenement is an observation point: it was deliberately selected for its high degree of demographic diversity, which contrasts with the typical objects of the traditional, ethnicity-based scholarship on migration. The micro lens allows for the reconstruction of the itineraries, interactions, and representations of the tenement’s occupants, in both their singularity and their structural context. Through its many individual stories, the book restores a degree of complexity that is often overlooked by historical accounts at broader levels.

Microhistories of the Holocaust

Claire Zalc,Tal Bruttmann
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Author : Claire Zalc,Tal Bruttmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785333675

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Microhistories of the Holocaust by Claire Zalc,Tal Bruttmann Pdf

How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe’s Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.

Emotional Experience and Microhistory

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
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Author : Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000055719

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Emotional Experience and Microhistory by Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon Pdf

Emotional Experience and Microhistory explores the life and death of Magnús Hj. Magnússon through his diary, poetry and other writing, showing how best to use the methods of microhistory to address complicated historical situations. The book deals with the many faces of microhistory and applies it’s methodology to the life of the Icelandic destitute pauper poet Magnús Hj. Magnússon (1873–1916). Having left his foster home at the age of 19 in 1892, he lived a peripatetic existence in an unstinting struggle with poor health, together with a ceaseless quest for a space to pursue writing and scholarship in accord with his dreams. He produced and accumulated a huge quantity of sources (autobiography, diary, poems, reflections) which are termed by the author as ‘egodocuments’. The book demonstrates how these egodocuments can be applied systematically, revealing unexpected perspectives on his life and demonstrating how integration of diverse sources can open up new perspectives on complex and difficult subjects. In so doing, the author offers an understanding both of how Magnússon’s story has been told, and how it can give insight into such matters as gender relations and sexual life, and the history of emotions. Highlighting how the historiographical development of modern scholarship has shaped scholars’ ideas about egodocuments and microhistory around the world, the book is of great use and interest to scholars of microhistory, social and cultural modern history, literary theory, anthropology and ethnology.

The History of Everyday Life

Alf Ludtke
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Author : Alf Ludtke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400821648

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The History of Everyday Life by Alf Ludtke Pdf

Alltagsgeschichte, or the history of everyday life, emerged during the 1980s as the most interesting new field among West German historians and, more recently, their East German colleagues. Partly in reaction to the modernization theory pervading West German social history in the 1970s, practitioners of alltagsgeschichte stressed the complexities of popular experience, paying particular attention, for instance, to the relationship of the German working class to Nazism. Now the first English translation of a key volume of essays (Alltagsgeschichte: Zur Rekonstruktion historischer Erfahrungen und Lebensweisen) presents this approach and shows how it cuts across the boundaries of established disciplines. The result is a work of great methodological, theoretical, and historiographical significance as well as a substantive contribution to German studies. Introduced by Alf Lüdtke, the volume includes two empirical essays, one by Lutz Niethammer on life courses of East Germans after 1945 and one by Lüdtke on modes of accepting fascism among German workers. The remaining five essays are theoretical: Hans Medick writes on ethnological ways of knowledge as a challenge to social history; Peter Schöttler, on mentalities, ideologies, and discourses and alltagsgeschichte; Dorothee Wierling, on gender relations and alltagsgeschichte; Wolfgang Kaschuba, on popular culture and workers' culture as symbolic orders; and Harald Dehne on the challenge alltagsgeschichte posed for Marxist-Leninist historiography in East Germany.

Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel

Binne de Haan,Konstantin Mierau
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Author : Binne de Haan,Konstantin Mierau
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443869584

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Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel by Binne de Haan,Konstantin Mierau Pdf

In the sixteenth century, the picaresque novel introduced marginal figures (wanderers, beggars and thieves) as the protagonists of elaborate prose narratives, thus appearing to give a voice to hitherto unrepresented social types. This raises several questions as to the referentiality of the picaresque text, pertinent both to historians and literary scholars alike. Microhistory can help investigate this referentiality of the picaresque text, by revealing how particular historical agents perceived marginals and marginality, and juxtaposing these agent perspectives to the literary representation. Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel is the first publication to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel and the practice of microhistory. This innovative volume argues that the approach of microhistorical studies, such as The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, Inheriting Power: The Story of an Exorcist by Giovanni Levi and The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis, can be used to shed new light on classic picaresque novels such as Guzmán de Alfarache, Gil Blas, Grimmelshausen, and their many epigones. The volume brings together expert scholars on the picaresque novel such as Professor Robert Folger, on the one hand, and established microhistorians such as Professor Giovanni Levi, on the other. This exploration is further enriched with contributions by Professor Matti Peltonen, an expert on history theory, and Professor Hans Renders, an expert on biography studies, as well as providing case studies from recent research by the editors Binne de Haan and Dr Konstantin Mierau.

Pickett's Charge

George R. Stewart
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Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0395597722

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Pickett's Charge by George R. Stewart Pdf

Presents a history of the decisive battle at Gettysburg based on military and personal accounts.

Filming History from Below

Efrén Cuevas
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Author : Efrén Cuevas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231551571

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Filming History from Below by Efrén Cuevas Pdf

Traditional historical documentaries strive to project a sense of objectivity, producing a top-down view of history that focuses on public events and personalities. In recent decades, in line with historiographical trends advocating “history from below,” a different type of historical documentary has emerged, focusing on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrén Cuevas categorizes these films as “microhistorical documentaries” and examines how they push cinema’s capacity as a producer of historical knowledge in new directions. Cuevas pinpoints the key features of these documentaries, identifying their parallels with written microhistory: a reduced scale of observation, a central role given to human agency, a conjectural approach to the use of archival sources, and a reliance on narrative structures. Microhistorical documentaries also use tools specific to film to underscore the affective dimension of historical narratives, often incorporating autobiographical and essayistic perspectives, and highlighting the role of the protagonists’ personal memories in the reconstruction of the past. These films generally draw from family archives, with an emphasis on snapshots and home movies. Filming History from Below examines works including Péter Forgács’s films dealing with the Holocaust such as The Maelstrom and Free Fall; documentaries about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Rithy Panh’s work on the Cambodian genocide; films about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War such as A Family Gathering and History and Memory; and Jonas Mekas’s chronicle of migration in his diary film Lost, Lost, Lost.

A Companion to Western Historical Thought

Lloyd Kramer,Sarah Maza
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Author : Lloyd Kramer,Sarah Maza
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780585470931

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A Companion to Western Historical Thought by Lloyd Kramer,Sarah Maza Pdf

This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures,traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing itsevolution from biblical times to the present. Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the WesternWorld from biblical times to the present day. Provides students with the background to contemporaryhistorical debates and approaches. Serves as a useful reference for researchers andteachers. Includes chapters by 24 leading historians.