The Brazilian historiography of the 1980s was marked by the intensification of new theoretical and methodological references, at the same time as the research was catalyzed by the university reform process that consolidated the postgraduate programs in Brazil. In this movement, one of the appropriations that caught the attention of the academic com...
The Brazilian historiography of the 1980s was marked by the intensification of new theoretical and methodological references, at the same time as the research was catalyzed by the university reform process that consolidated the postgraduate programs in Brazil. In this movement, one of the appropriations that caught the attention of the academic com...
This article wants to contribute to the discussion about the construction of story in the discipline of historiography. We check a context of discipline transformation and return to debate of balance between the narrative and the documental proofs, also think in the postulates of recognized authors about the History writing. Finally, we think that ...
Laurence Prempain consacre sa thèse de doctorat d’histoire aux Polonais-es et Juif-ve-s polonais-es venu-e-s vivre à Lyon (France) entre 1935 et 1945. Dans une première partie, elle présente le cadre géographique (Lyon) ainsi que sa méthodologie (approche par le genre, choix de la microhistoire, le silence comme source) et sa volonté de donner à en...
Se presentan los presupuestos y resultados de un proyecto de investigación orientado a caracterizar los ciclos formativos del registro arqueológico en la Prehistoria Reciente mesete.a. Frente a las lecturas generalistas predominantes se propone una aproximación inductiva y particularista, de microescala. El análisis, dise.ado como un estudio de cas...
Published in Neophilologus
The following article discusses the representation of marginality in two early modern Spanish texts. Firstly, the episode of the galley slaves in the first part of Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes, and, secondly, the informe secreto (1593) by Mateo Alemán, a report on the conditions of forced laborers in the quicksilver mines of Almadén. T...
The purpose of this study is to expand and variegate the general history of psychiatric care in Sweden in the late nineteenth century. My objects of interest are the first two head doctors of Stockholm’s hospital and their handwritten annual reports to the directorate of the hospital from the year of 1862 to the year of 1889. During this time the p...
In the following text, I endeavour to argue for microhistory in artistic practice in relation to politics from three perspectives: individual, structural and artistic. In the third and final part of the text, I bring together parts one and two and discuss how they play out in the filmmaker, photographer and writer Pirooz Kalantari’s films. The firs...
Published in International Journal of Historical Archaeology
The approach I call the “singularization of history,” which I have been developing in recent years within the methodological structure of microhistory, is the main subject of this article. It has the precise aim of defining the ways in which scholars can use sources to enter into the past in as detailed and varied a way as possible without becoming...
Published in International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Microhistory and historical archaeology are important comrades, even in the broad-scale analysis of the modern world. Two scholars in Iceland have been paying close attention to the theory of microhistory. This brief introduction to their papers provides my thoughts on the linkage between historical archaeology and microhistory.
