HIST2312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Microhistory, Historical Demography, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
HIST2313 Week 5 Lecture – The Annales
Questions:
• Why is it important
• Why does the work resonate?
• Far-reaching and in what fields
• Distinguishable methodologies
A Moeet
• Substitution of problem-orientated analysis for a traditional narrative of events – moving
away from defining discourse
• History of the whole (histoire totale) as a range of human activities in a place of a mainly
political place
• Collaboration with other disciplines
French Historical Revolution:
• First generation of leaders
• Lucien Rebvre – became known for scholarly work and went on you co-found the VI Section
of the EHESS
• March Bloch – edieal historia at to e otiated histor read the Historias
Craft)
• Effects their field but also effects history more generally
• Historias…fight the spirit of speializatio. – Febvre
• In France literature rules – why it is still considered important – Frenchness to the literary
quality
• Interest to more than just the people in the university
The Journal:
• Febvre and Bloch founded the Journal
• Ideas begin to take shape – diverse range reflected in the title and how it changed
• 1929
• Social to economic to social sciences and where we are
• Most widely distributed journals in the historical profession (French and English) – access is
not shrinking
• Against the building of walls
Age of Braudel:
• Second age or generation
• Intellectuals in the public sphere
• Remembered for the invention of thinking about time and space/ key terms that are almost
untranslatable
• Geographical features are not just part of history but have a history – events have no
meaning without structure
• Time scale: Structure (long-term, at the base), conjuncture (medium-length, 10-20-50 years),
evenement (event or short term)
• Influence paradigm – agency and structure and structure and mental frameworks
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Document Summary
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