What is Microhistory? Theory and practice by Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents Acknowledgements Part I (Sem título) Introduction:Against simple truths

Pighino and Menocchio

Ginzburg and the detective story What is microhistory? The place of microhistory in the discourse of history The historian’s microscope Notes

1 Italian microhistory

An exorcist in Santena

The podestà of Santena ‘A history with additives’ Microstoria and postmodernism ‘Normal exceptions’ and ‘changing the scale’ Inquisitors and witches Ear-lobes and fingernails Turin, Florence and Genoa Microhistory as narrative Notes

2 Under the impact of microstoriaThe French and German perspective

The vanishing children

The battle at Bouvines and the carnival at Romans Cathars in Montaillou Microhistory as a relief force How can we avoid trivial history? The history of everyday life Microhistory as a little brother of Alltagsgeschichte The peasant, the shaman and the pope Notes

3 Microhistory in a broader senseThe Anglo-Saxon landscape

Geertz and the cats

Killing a god The interpreter’s knowledge versus the uncertainty of microhistory From an (early) modern personality to the Neckarhausen version of European history The microhistory of the community English microhistories Incident analysis and microhistory Prostitutes, nuns and other scandals The American microhistory of Italy The quasi-microstoria Notes

4 The periphery and the new millenniumAnswers and new questions

The longest road to Ithaca

Fractals and history The contextual knowledge of the microhistorian and the‘singularization of history’ Russia’s microhistory The responsibilities of the historical actor and the historian Experimental history and microhistory From experience and global microhistory The benefits of microhistory Notes

Part II 5 The doctor’s taleThe living and the dead

Halldór Jónsson and the brothers from Strandir

Health, disease and mortality in nineteenth-century Iceland At each man’s door The thin line between life and death Notes

6 Refashioning a famous French peasant

The story

The sources and the tale The classical approach to history versus the methods of microhistory New methods, new approaches Reality check Notes

7 New and old theoretical issuesCriticisms of microhistory

The revelation

The bull’s eye Upstream Microhistory in the new century Notes

8 A West Side story, and the one who gets to write it

Beat! Beat! Drums!95

The individual in history and the biographical method The ‘self’ in public sources A twenty-first-century love story Notes

9 PostscriptTo step into the same stream twice

The methods of microhistory

Normal exceptions The narrative The sources The individual Microhistory as a pedagogical model Voices Notes

Bibliography

Manuscripts and archival material

Published works

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