Microhistory is the intensive History historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research most often a single event, the community of a village, a family or a person . In its ambition, however, microhistory can be distinguished from a simple case study insofar microhistory aspires to search for answers to large questions in small places , to use the definition given by Charles Joyner. The original idea of writing microhistory came from Italy in the 1970s. Microstoria had a social history Giovanni Levi L eredita immateriale. Carriere di un esorcista nel Piemonte del seicento. Einaudi Torino, 1985. and a cultural history Carlo Ginzburg Il formaggio e i vermi. Einaudi Torino, 1975. wing. It had a significant impact on French and German historians in the 1980s and 1990s. Microhistory became then a popular approach and it produced classics in several languages e.g., Natalie Zemon Davis The Return of Martin Guerre. Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mass., 1983. . It can be seen as part of cultural history together with the histoire des mentalit s of the French Annales School , the German Alltagsgeschichte , or historical anthropology. It is especially close to the latter, with the important difference that it, especially its original Italian version, puts a great stress on the agency of historical actors and is therefore unwilling to see culture as a determining force. List of microhistorians Wolfgang Behringer Simona Cerutti Alain Corbin Robert Darnton Natalie Zemon ... Microhistory The website of the Center for Microhistorical Research at the Reykjavik Academy in Iceland. http hnn.us articles 23720.html Interesting article on microhistory by the chair of the Center for Microhistorical Research at the Reykjavik Academy http www.microhistory.eu Microhistory Network A group of historians interested in microhistory 2007 Bibliography of microhistorical works http www.microhistory.org bibliography.php Journal of Microhistory http www.microhistory.org ... more details
Alltagsgeschichte is a form of microhistory that was particularly prevalent amongst German historians during the 1980s. It was founded by historians Alf Luedtke and Hans Medick . The name comes from German, where Alltag means everyday life it can thus be roughly translated as everyday history . In this sense, Alltagsgeschichte can be considered part of the wider Marxian historical school of history from below . The purpose of Alltagsgeschichte is to find and prove the links between the down to earth, everyday, basic experiences of ordinary people in a society, and the broad social and political changes which occur in that society. Because this is such a massively broad endeavour to undertake, it can only feasibly be practised on the most minute of scales. Thus Alltagsgeschichte becomes a form of microhistory. Alltagsgeschichte can also be linked to the Italian historical doctrine of Microstoria Microhistory . Publications The History of Everyday Life by German historian Alf L dtke. Alltagsgeschichte ein Bericht von unterwegs , by Alf L dtke, in Historische Anthropologie No. 11 2003 , pp. 278 295. The History of Everyday Life A second chapter , by Paul Steege, Andrew Bergerson, Maureen Healy and Pamela E. Swett, in The Journal of Modern History, No. 80 June 2008 , pp. 358 378. Category Fields of history Category German words and phrases history stub de Alltagsgeschichte es Historia de la vida cotidiana fr Histoire du quotidien ru uk ... more details
Sigur ur Gylfi Magn sson born August 29, 1957 is an Icelandic historian specialising in microhistory http en.wikipedia.org wiki Microhistory . He has been an indepentent scholar for most of his career. He established the Center for Microhistorical Research http www.akademia.is sigm at the Reykjav k Academy http www.akademia.is index.php en in 2003. He currently holds a research position at the National Museum of Iceland http www.natmus.is english named after Dr. Kristj n Eldj rn, the former president of Iceland and an archaeologist. The following text is based on his book The History War Essays and Narrative on Ideology Reykjavik, The Center for Microhistorical Research, 2007 http www.akademia.is sigm sogustrid.html , which is autobiographical in nature and deals with historiographical issues such as the development of ideas which are part of the microhistorical agenda. Magn sson is the author of 16 books http www.akademia.is sigm publications.html and has been involved in the publication of nine more through a book series which he has co edited. His latest book, titled Wasteland with Words ... issues. He is the editor of the web journal The Journal of Microhistory http www.microhistory.org ... in recent years on first hand sources, microhistory and everyday life. That includes the following ... dealing with the methods of microhistory for over ten years Magn sson turned back to his empirical ... he strives to deal with a long period of time using the methods of microhistory. References reflist ... New York Oxford University Press, 2008 . The Singularization of History Social History and Microhistory ... of History Microhistory and the Grand Narrative. Journal of Social History Special issue 39 3 Spring 2006 , pp. 891 913. Social History Cultural History Alltagsgeschichte Microhistory In between Methodologies and Conceptual Frameworks. Journal of Microhistory 2006 microhistory.org ... History of Iceland Reaktion Books London, 2010 , ISBN 978 1861896612 What is Microhistory? The History ... more details
, Self and Society in Renaissance Italy 2007 Sex and Gender in Historical Perspectives 1990 Microhistory ... of European Social History 2002 , co editor References reflist See also Microhistory Persondata ... more details
refimprove date September 2010 Tancheng County zh c p T nch ng Xi n is a County China county of Linyi , Shandong province, People s Republic of China . Tancheng is located on the southern edge of the province of Shandong, about 90 kilometres by road south of Linyi and 400 kilometres south east of Jinan , the capital city of Shandong province. The population in 2001 was 970,000. The land area of the county is about 1,306.58 square kilometres. It is a developing city in a rural area. Tancheng in the 17th century is the setting for Jonathan Spence s microhistory, The Death of Woman Wang . ref Jonathan D. Spence, The Death of Woman Wang New York Viking Penguin, 1978 . ref Xu Ling , compiler of the famous poetry anthology New Songs from the Jade Terrace , was born in what is now Tancheng County. References Reflist Shandong geo stub coord 34 39 03.60 N 118 13 19.20 E region CN 37 type adm2nd source dewiki display title Category County level divisions of Shandong de Tancheng fr Xian de Tancheng ko ja no Tancheng vi m Th nh zh ... more details
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Orphan date February 2009 Expand French date August 2010 Expand German date August 2010 File L dtke.jpg thumb right 200px Alf L dtke Alf L dtke born 18 October 1943 in Dresden also Alf Luedtke is a German social historian who wrote in the 1970s and beyond. One of his articles, The Role of State Violence in the Period of Transition to Industrial Capitalism The Example of Prussia from 1815 to 1848, was published in Social History in 1979. His article describes the idea that state violence under the feudal system was necessary to create a control amongst the Prussia n working class in order to prepare them for the different structure of capitalism capitalist society. L dtke was interested in how the growth of state and the growth of capitalism related to each other. ref L dtke, Alf. The Role of State Violence in the Period of Transition to Industrial Capitalism The Example of Prussia from 1815 to 1848, Social History 4 1979 175 221 JSTOR . ref Together with Hans Medick , he founded the Alltagsgeschichte , a form of microhistory that was particularly prevalent amongst German historians during the 1980s. References Reflist added above External links Sources by script assisted edit Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata NAME Ludtke, Alf ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1943 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ludtke, Alf Category Social historians Category Living people Category 1943 births de Alf L dtke fr Alf L dtke ... more details
Infobox Film name The Return of Martin Guerre image writer Daniel Vigne br Jean Claude Carri re br Natalie Zemon Davis starring G rard Depardieu br Bernard Pierre Donnadieu br Nathalie Baye br Roger Planchon br Dominique Pinon director Daniel Vigne producer Daniel Vigne distributor released May 14, 1982 runtime 122 min country Cinema of France France language French budget The Return of Martin Guerre Le Retour de Martin Guerre is a 1982 France French film directed by Daniel Vigne and based on historical events in France during the 16th century. See main article Martin Guerre . The film depicts a case of imposture, in which after a war, a man appears in his home village several years after his departure and takes on the life of the departed one. He provoked suspicions by former friends on his identity, but was initially recognized and embraced by family and other friends. In 1983, a book of the same name was published by Natalie Zemon Davis , an United States American historian of early modern France who had served as a consultant and helped write the screenplay for the film. She was a professor at Princeton University . Remake Sommersby was a 1993 United States remake of the film, set after the American Civil War and starring Richard Gere and Jodie Foster . Cast and roles G rard Depardieu Arnaud de Tihl Nathalie Baye Bertrande de Rols Maurice Barrier Uncle Pierre Guerre Bernard Pierre Donnadieu Martin Guerre Isabelle Sadoyan Catherine Bo re Rose Thi ry Raimonde de Rols Chantal Deruaz Jeanne Maurice Jacquemont Judge Rieux Roger Planchon Jean de Coras Francis Arnaud Philippe Babin Jacques Axel Bogousslavsky Val rie Chassigneux Guillemette Neige Dolsky Adrien Duquesne Sanxi Guerre Gilbert Gilles Tch ky Karyo Augustin Jean Claude Perrin Dominique Pinon Antoine See also Middle Ages in film Microhistory External links imdb title id 0084589 title Le Retour de Martin Guerre DEFAULTSORT Return Of Martin Guerre, The Category 1982 films Category French films Category French la ... more details
Image A History of Everyday Things in England cover.jpg thumb right Cover page, illustration by Marjorie Quennell A History of Everyday Things in England is a series of four history books for children written by Marjorie Quennell and her husband Charles Henry Bourne Quennell aka C. H. B. between 1918 and 1934. The books concern English history between 1066 and 1914. The series has been in print as late as year 2000 ref Putnam Pub Group. ISBN 978 0 399 20060 1 ref , although they generally went out of print after the 1960s. Marjorie did many of the illustrations. Little or no scholarly research has been done about the Quennell s, but as Tony Woolrich writes The books sold in thousands and were reputed to have been used by more than eight hundred schools in Britain alone and more were in use in overseas in English speaking schools. Translations of a number of titles have been made into Russian, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Danish. The books were illustrated with some coloured drawings of mostly costume, half tones and a profusion of line drawings made by the authors. All the books went into numerous revisions, with the information upgraded to take account of modern knowledge. ref name wool http bearalley.blogspot.com 2008 08 c h b marjorie quennell.html C. H. B. and Marjorie Quennell . Archived link http bachlab.balbach.net Marjorie.Quennell.txt here . ref The books were especially strong on housing, agriculture and the way people earned their livings. They were described by Hector Bolitho as transforming teaching . ref name wool In an era when history focused on the Great Man and political forces as the drivers of history, these books about the day to day life of the common person were ahead of their time, which would not come into the fore until the 1970s see microhistory . In 1935 the Quennell s published The Good New Days 1935 , where modern industrial and agricultural processes, together with the problems of the future, were considered. In 1968 aut ... more details
ecclesiastical and civil records to explore the microhistory of the villagers and their lives. In Europe ... Age at marriage Social mobility Household structure Sociology of the family Microhistory Catholic Protestant ... more details
Pierre Clergue was a priest in the village of Montaillou , France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. He is the central figure in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie s book Montaillou , a pioneering work of microhistory . Since then he has appeared in a number of other histories as well as the villain in the fictional work The Good Men by Charmaine Craig . The family Pierre was the son of Pons Clergue Pons and Mengarde Clergue . The Clergues were a family of wealthy peasant s, by far the wealthiest in Montaillou and their power extended throughout the region. Pierre, the head of the family after the death of his father, became the priest of the village. His brother Bernard Clergue became the local bayle , the enforcer of laws and collector of taxes. The Clergue brothers thus had a central role in being the representatives of both religious and secular power in the town. As one of the few educated men in town Pierre Clergue also served as a Civil law notary notary and performed other such tasks. Catharism Despite being a priest in a Roman Catholic church Pierre Clergue was a staunch Albigensian having been converted by the parfait Guillaume Authi . For many years he played an important role by convincing the inquisition to ignore Montaillou, despite its being filled with heretics. This changed about 1300 when Pierre Clergue began to inform on some members of his parish. In 1308 he played a central role in the inquisition s move to arrest the entire adult population of the town. Pierre decided which villagers would be freed and which punished. He used this power to satisfy personal grievances. Despite this he and his brother continued to provide shelter and aid to certain Cathars. Loose morals Pierre Clergue is also notable for his sexual appetite having many mistresses over his long career as priest and virtual ruler of the town. The most important of these was B atrice de Planissoles who as ch telain e of was the nominal ruler of the village. Le Roy Ladurie li ... more details
Alan Shaw Taylor born 1955 Portland, Maine is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian specializing in early American history . He is the author of a number of books about Colonial America , the American Revolution , and the Early American Republic . Life He graduated from Colby College , in Waterville, Maine , in 1977 and earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1986. His thesis advisor was Marvin Meyers, a historian of Jacksonian America, ref http www.amazon.com dp 0804705062 ref whom Taylor praised in the preface of his book Writing Early American History 2005 . ref http www.amazon.com dp 0812219104 ref Currently he is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis , having taught previously at Boston University . Taylor is best known for his contributions to microhistory, best exemplified in his Pulitzer Prize winning history of William Cooper and the settlement of Cooperstown, New York. Using court records, land records, letters, and diaries, Taylor painstakingly reconstructs the economic, political and social history of New England and the settlement of New York. Taylor is also part of a generation of historians committed to the revival of narrative history, rejecting the method driven, quantitative work of the previous generation of new social historians and the theory laden work of more recent new cultural historians. In addition to writing books for a wide public readership, Taylor is a regular contributor of book reviews and essays to The New Republic . Taylor s current research includes a border lands history of Canada and the United States in the aftermath of the American Revolution. His forthcoming book The Civil War of 1812 American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies is published by Alfred A. Knopf and will come out in October 2010. ref http www.amazon.com dp 1400042658 ref Taylor is a devoted Boston Red Sox fan, and is known for always wearing historically themed neckties. Awards 1996 Bancroft Prize , for William Co ... more details
The Fournier Register is a set of records from the inquisition into heresy run by Jacques Fournier , Bishop of Pamiers between 1318 and 1325. Fournier was later to become Pope Benedict XII . Interrogation Fournier interrogated hundreds of individuals and had transcripts recorded of each interrogation. Fournier also demanded a great deal of detail from those appearing before him. Most of those he interviewed were local peasant s and the Fournier register is thus one of the most detailed records of life among medieval peasants. The records have thus frequently been the focus of scholars, most notably Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie whose pioneering work of microhistory Montaillou is largely based on the material in the register. Prior to Bishop Fournier the local authorities had done little to pursue local heretics, and the region was one of the last areas of France to be home to a significant number of Cathar s. Fournier began a rigorous hunt for heretics upon his appointment and set up the new court at Pamiers. He personally supervised almost all of his operations. Fournier only very rarely turned to torture to extract information, and when he did so it was generally under explicit orders from his superiors. The great bulk of his interrogations relied on Fournier s verbal skill at drawing out answers. Ladurie reports the court as conducting 578 interrogations in the 370 days it was in operation. The severest sentence was to be burnt at the stake , but this was rare, with this inquisition only sentencing five heretics to this fate. More common was to be imprisoned for a time or to be forced to wear a Cathar yellow cross yellow cross on one s back. Other punishment s included forced pilgrimage s and confiscation of property. The record was assembled in three stages During the inquisition itself a scribe would make quick notes in short form to record the conversation. These would then be expanded into full minutes, which were then presented to the accused for review and altera ... more details
Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory . He is most famous for his ground breaking book, The Cheese and the Worms The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio , from Montereale Valcellina . Biography The son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg , he was born in 1939 in Turin, Italy. He received a Doctor of Philosophy PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961. He has subsequently held teaching positions at the University of Bologna and at the University of California, Los Angeles 1988 2006 currently he teaches at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa . His fields of interest range from the Italian Renaissance to early modern European history , with contributions to art history , literary studies , and the theory of historiography . In 1979, Ginzburg formally requested that then new Pope John Paul II open the Inquisition Archives . Whilst the immediate response of those in the Vatican to his request has not come to light yet, by 1991 a limited group of scholars were already allowed access to review the material in the archives. In January 1998 the archives were formally opened to qualified researchers. Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI , credited Ginzburg, and his 1979 letter, as having been instrumental in the Vatican s decision to open these archives. ref http listserv.muohio.edu scripts wa.exe?A2 ind9804c&L archives&T 0&P 19671 Putting the Inquisition on Trial , Los Angeles Times , April 17, 1998 ref Along with Paul Ginsborg , Marcello Flores , Sergio Luzzato , Claudio Pavone , Enzo Traverso , etc., Ginzburg signed a call in January 2007 against a law project, presented by Justice Minister Clemente Mastella , which was to specifically penalize Holocaust denial . They argued that Italy s legislation was sufficient to cope with such acts. The amended law project finally restricted itself ... Purry.pdf Latitude, Slaves and the Bible An Experiment in Microhistory PDF Online paper by Carlo Ginzburg ... more details
known for his work in microhistory , Le Roy Ladurie has also examined the political history of France ... is a leading champion of microhistory , in which a historian uses the study of an event, locality .... Some, like Niall Ferguson , have questioned the value of microhistory, arguing that it is wrong to assume ... more details
Expand French date December 2008 Infobox French commune name Montaillou region Midi Pyr n es department Ari ge image Montaillou sign.jpg arrondissement Foix canton Ax les Thermes INSEE 09197 postal code 09110 mayor Jean Clergue term 2008&ndash 2014 intercommunality Vall es d Ax longitude 1.89888888889 latitude 42.7888888889 elevation m 1325 elevation min m 1181 elevation max m 1806 area km2 8.61 population 18 population date 2007 Montaillou occitan Montalhon is a Communes of France commune in the Ari ge Departments of France department in southwestern France . History Image Montaillou.jpg left The town is best known for being the subject of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie s pioneering work of microhistory , Montaillou, village occitan . It analyzes the town in great detail over a thirty year period from 1294 to 1324. Then a village of some 250 people, the daily routines of the people are in the records of Jacques Fournier , later Pope Benedict XII . Montaillou was one of the last bastions of the Albigensian heresy also known as Catharism the then local bishop, Fournier launched an extensive inquisition involving dozens of lengthy interviews with the locals, all of which were faithfully recorded such as the arrest of the entire village, 1308. When Fournier became Pope he brought the records with him and they remain in the Vatican Library . For details of the castle, see Ch teau de Montaillou . Residents of early 14th century Montaillou Pierre Clergue , priest and head of the powerful Clergue family Bernard Clergue , brother of Pierre and the town bailiff bayle Raymond Clergue, younger brother of Pierre and Bernard Pons Clergue, the father of the Clergue brothers Guillaume Clergue, brother of Pons Raymond Pathau Clergue, bastard brother of Pons Mengarde Clergue, the mother of the Clergue brothers B renger de Roquefort, minor noble who served as the ch telain of the town until his death in 1302 B atrice de Planissoles , much younger wife of B renger de Roquefort assumed the du ... more details
File Pahor predstavitev.jpg thumb right 230px Marta Verginella right in Trieste together with writer Boris Pahor and historian Milica Kacin Wohinz . Marta Verginella born 20 June 1960 is a Slovenia n Italy Italian historian from Trieste , and one of the most prominent contemporary Slovenes Slovene historians. Biography She was born in Trieste , Italy, where she attended Slovene language schools. In 1984, she graduated from history at the University of Trieste under the supervision of the renowned social anthropologist and femminist historian Luisa Accati . For five years she worked as a high school teacher in Slovene language schools in Trieste and Gorizia . In 1995, she obtained her PhD at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of Peter Vodopivec , with a thesis on the changing attitudes towards death in the 19th century rural peripheries of Trieste. She continued her studies at the University of Klagenfurt and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris . Since 1996, she has taught theory of historiography and social history of 19th century Europe at the University of Ljubljana. She has been visiting professor at several universities in Italy, as well as at the University of Valencia in Spain , and the University of Primorska in Koper , Slovenia. She has written on a variety of topics, including social and demographic history, history of historiography, cultural history of 19th and 20th century, women studies , and the history of the Slovene minority in Italy . She rose to prominence with her studies on the relationship between the urban and rural societies in Habsburg Empire Habsburg Istria . Together with Alenka Puhar , she is considered a pioneer in the history of family relations in the Slovene Lands and in the wider northern Adriatic region. Particularly outstanding are also her microhistory studies on the daily life during World War II . In the last decade, she has also written extensively on history of intellectuals in the border ar ... more details
File James brooks portrait 09 o.jpg right 250px James F. Brooks b 1955 is an American historian whose work on slavery, captivity and kinship in the Southwest Borderlands was honored with major national history awards the Bancroft Prize , Francis Parkman Prize , the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Frederick Douglass Prize second prize . He is now President of the School for Advanced Research . Early life and education Brooks graduated from University of California Davis , with a Ph.D. in history. Before pursuing his career in the academy, Brooks worked for a decade in the publishing and advertising industry in Colorado. ref http history.ucdavis.edu ccwh alumni.shtml ref Career An interdisciplinary scholar of the indigenous and colonial past, he has held professorial appointments at the University of Maryland, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Berkeley, as well as fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Brooks was a Resident Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 2000 2001, and later joined the staff as Editor of SAR Press. In August 2005, Brooks became President and CEO of the School. ref http www.oah.org activities lectureship 2009 lecturer.php?id 67 Organization of American History, accessed 30 Mar 2010 ref The recipient of more than a dozen national awards for scholarly excellence, his 2002 book Captives & Cousins Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands focused on the traffic in women and children across the region as expressions of intercultural violence and accommodation. He extends these questions most recently through an essay on the eighteenth and nineteenth century Pampas borderlands of Argentina in his co edited advanced seminar volume Small Worlds Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory from SAR Press. David Brion Davis commented when making the Frederick Douglass Prize second prize for Captives and Cousins Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands blockquot ... more details
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