unsourced date December 2011 Campaignbox Theories of History 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 , Citation needed date March 2012 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 historyion Carlo Ginzburg Il formaggio e i vermi. Einaudi Torino, 1976. wing. However, E. P. Thompson s Whigs and Hunters The Origins of the Black Act 1975 and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie s Montaillou 1975 , pioneering British and French microhistories, each preceded Ginzburg s book. Microhistory had a significant impact on French and German historians in the 1980s and 1990, when 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 ... Life, History Dictionary Category Microhistorians External links http www.microhistory.org Microhistory ... 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 journal2009.php Category ... 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. Its leading exponents include Paul Veyne and Michel Rouche in France, and Peter Carr in the UK. 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. A History of Private life from Pagan Rome to Byzantium Paul Veyne, Ed. Editions du Seuil, 1985 Portavo an Irish Townland and its Peoples parts One and Two, by Peter Carr White Row, 2003 and 2005 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
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Sigur ur Gylfi Magn sson born August 29, 1957 is an Iceland ic historian specialising in microhistory . He has been an independent 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 Autobiography autobiographical in nature and deals with Historiography 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. A social ... The Journal of Microhistory http www.microhistory.org journal2006.php with his co worker and a long ..., microhistory and everyday life. That includes the following books Dreams of Things Past Life Writing ... www.akademia.is sigm disintegration.html . After mostly dealing with the methods of microhistory ... of time using the methods of microhistory. References reflist Select bibliography Barefoot Historians ..., 2008 . The Singularization of History Social History and Microhistory within the Postmodern State ... 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 06.11.2006 . http www.microhistory.org ... London, 2010 , ISBN 978 1861896612 What is Microhistory? The History New Network www.hnn.us May ... more details
refimprove date September 2010 Tancheng County zh c p T nch ng Xi n is a County People s Republic of 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
Sigur ur or Sigurdur may refer to Sigur ur Bragason born 1954 , an Icelandic baritone Sigur ur Brei fj r 1798&ndash 1846 , an Icelandic poet Sigur ur Eggerz 1875&ndash 1945 , Prime Minister of Iceland from 1914 to 1915 and from 1922 to 1924 Sigur ur Ragnar Eyj lfsson born 1973 , an Icelandic football manager and former professional striker Sigur ur Gr tarsson born 1962 , a former Icelandic footballer who played as a striker Sigurdur Helgason airline executive 1921&ndash 2009 , an innovator in low cost airlines Sigurdur Helgason mathematician born 1927 researcher in integral geometry and symmetric spaces Sigur ur J nsson born 1966 also known as Siggi J nsson, an Icelandic footballer Sigur ur K ri Kristj nsson born 1973 , an Icelandic Member of Parliament for the Independence Party Sigur ur Gylfi Magn sson born 1957 , an Icelandic historian specialising in microhistory Sigur ur Nordal 1886&ndash 1974 , an Icelandic scholar, writer, and poet Sigur ur Sigurj nsson born 1955 , an Icelandic actor, comedian and screenwriter Sigur ur rarinsson 1912&ndash 1983 , an Icelandic geologist, volcanologist, glaciologist, professor and lyricist Sigur ur orvaldsson born 1980 , an Icelandic professional basketball player given name de Sigur ur is Sigur ur no Sigur ur ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Expand French date August 2010 Alf L dtke Expand German date August 2010 Alf L dtke 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. Works 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 18 October 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
Research Project objectives, approaches and methods , in D. Roksandic ed. , Microhistory of the Triplex ... borderlands. Bibliography D. Roksandi ed. , Microhistory of the Triplex Confinium, Budapest 1998 ... more details
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Expand French date December 2008 Montaillou 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 1.8989 latitude 42.7889 elevation m 1325 elevation min m 1181 elevation max m 1806 area km2 8.61 population 25 population date 2008 Montaillou occitan Montalhon is a Communes of France commune in the Ari ge Departments of France department in southwestern France . History File 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 belief also known as Catharism , considered heresy by the dominant Roman Catholic powers. 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 in 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 . Population D mographie 1962 41 1968 45 1975 37 1982 20 1990 27 1999 14 2008 25 See also Communes of the Ari ge department References http www.insee.fr en home home page.asp INSEE reflist Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie , Montaillou The Promised Land of Error. translated by Barbara Bray . New York G. Braziller, c1978. Fr icon Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, ed., Autour de Montaillou un village occitan histoire et religiosit d une communaut villageoise au Moyen ge. Actes du colloque de Montaillou 25 26 27 ao t 2000 . Castelnaud la Chapelle, ... 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
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 14 May 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 . Synopsis The film relates an historical case of identity theft. Martin Guerre leaves his young wife in a small French village to go fight in a war and travel. Many years later, a man claiming to be Martin returns to resume his life. The man is initially acknowledged and welcomed by family and friends because he seems to know the details of Martin s life, but later townpeople grow suspicious that he is an imposter. The story ends with the man s trial. Book In 1983, a book of the same name was published by Natalie Zemon Davis , an United States American historian of early modern France. She 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 li ... 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 Quennells, 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 auth ... more details
Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and proponent of the field of microhistory . He is best known for his Il formaggio e I vermi 1976, English title The Cheese and the Worms The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio , from Montereale Valcellina . In 1966, he first published The Night Battles , an examination of the benandanti visionary folk tradition found in 16th century Friuli . He returned to looking at the visionary traditions of Early Modern Europe for his 1989 book Ecstasies book Ecstasies Deciphering the Witches Sabbath . 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 the recently elected Pope John Paul II open the Inquisition Archives . Whilst the immediate response of those in the Holy See 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 who later became 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 ... events Purry.pdf Latitude, Slaves and the Bible An Experiment in Microhistory PDF Online paper by Carlo ... more details
in France. This book provides an example of a Microhistory micro historical approach to the social ..., learning, and taxes. Political history Through best known for his work in microhistory , Le Roy Ladurie ... of the Nouvelle histoire New History . Le Roy Ladurie is a leading champion of microhistory , in which ... of microhistory, arguing that it is wrong to assume that the study of one village or one incident ... 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 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 and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work. Life Taylor 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 borderlands history of Canada and the United States in the aftermath of the American Revolution. His book The Civil War of 1812 American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies was published by Alfred A. Knopf 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 Cooper s Town 199 ... 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 in Santa Fe, New Mexico . 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 James F. Brooks , History, UC Davis ref Career An interdisciplinary scholar of the indigenous and colonial past, Brooks 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 Slave ... more details
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