Visions in a Ninth-Century Village: an Early Medieval Microhistory
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ARTICLE AND ESSAYS Visions in a Ninth-Century Village: an Early Medieval Microhistory
As historians begin to take the ‘global turn’ and to measure up the advantages of ‘big data’ history, it should not be a surprise that microhistory is if anything enjoying a revival. Contrary to the implicit assertion of David Armitage and Jo Guldi in their recent book, The History Manifesto, microhistory is not just a history of the very small, a recklessly antiquarian immersion in the tiny an...
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عنوان ژورنال: History Workshop Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1363-3554,1477-4569
DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbv040