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The study of the past on a small scale, such as an individual neighborhood or town, as a case study for general trends
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Microhistory — is the intensive 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… … Wikipedia
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie — (born 1929) is a noted French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the ancien regime , focusing on the history of the peasantry. He is a noted pioneer in the fields of history from below and microhistory. Early lifeLe Roy… … Wikipedia
Alltagsgeschichte — is a form of microhistory that was particularly prevalent amongst German historians during the 1980s.The name comes from German, where Alltag means everyday life ; it can thus be roughly translated as everyday history .In this sense,… … Wikipedia
One-place study — One place studies are a branch of family history with a focus on the entire population of a single village or community, not just a single, geographically dispersed family line. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Development 3 Family reconstitution … Wikipedia
Mikrogeschichte — ist eine geschichtswissenschaftliche Forschungsrichtung, die ihre Erkenntnis durch sehr detaillierte Analysen von relativ kleinen bzw. überschaubaren Forschungseinheiten erzielt. Im Zentrum der mikrohistorischen Perspektive steht aber nicht das… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Historiography — See also: Historian Historiography refers either to the study of the history and methodology of history as a discipline, or to a body of historical work on a specialized topic. Scholars discuss historiography topically – such as the… … Wikipedia
List of historians — This is a list of historians.The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialized.Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians… … Wikipedia
Carlo Ginzburg — is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. He is most famous for his ground breaking book, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale… … Wikipedia
Historical classification — groups the various history topics into different categories according to subject matter as shown below.Meta history*Philosophy of historyBy geographic region*World *Africa *Americas *Asia *Europe *Oceania *AntarcticaBy geographic subregion*North… … Wikipedia
Microhistoire — La microhistoire (ou microstoria en italien) est un courant de recherche historiographique né en Italie, spécialisé dans l histoire moderne, regroupé autour de la revue Quaderni Storici et développé au début des années 1970. Sommaire 1 Démarche 2 … Wikipédia en Français
