Microhistory and the lost peoples of Europe / edited by Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero ; translated by Eren Branch.
Various authors present case studies of microhistory, an evolving branch of historical research that seeks to focus on writing without anachronism about events and peoples. The microhistorian uses the methodology of strict positivist standards to reconstruct the meanings of artifacts in their origin...
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[1991], ©1991.
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| Series: | Selections from Quaderni storici.
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 204 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : observing trifles / Edward Muir
- The name and the game : unequal exchange and the historiographic marketplace / Carlo Ginzburg and Carlo Poni
- The dovecote has opened its eyes / Carlo Ginzburg and Marco Ferrari
- Ritual pillages : a preface to research in progress / The Bologna Seminar, coordinated by Carlo Ginzburg
- The ox's bones and the ox's hide : a popular myth, part hagiography and part witchcraft / Maurizio Bertolotti
- The kings of the dead on the battlefield of Agnadello / Ottavia Niccoli
- Jews, the local church, the 'prince' and the people : two late fifteenth-century episodes involving the destruction of sacred images / Michele Luzzati
- The political system of a community in Liguria : Cervo in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Edoardo Grendi.
- Unwed mothers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : clinical histories and life histories / Gianna Pomata.