Linnea Bring Larsson

  E-mail Homepage Linnea Bring Larsson is a PhD student at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her main interests concern the processes of knowledge circulation in the early modern period. Currently, Linnea studies the making of books of husbandry written in Sweden during the first half of the 18th century. Focusing on Read more…

Soledad Fox Maura

Soledad Fox Maura is a Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Williams College. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and an MPhil and PhD in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York. She has been a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, and a Visiting Fellow in Read more…

Bulletin June 2017

Budapest, 11 June 2017 Dear Colleagues, First, I would like to welcome the colleagues who joined the Microhistory Network in 2016. By now, the number of members is 104 from 26 countries in the world. I would like to inform you that after the closing of an international project Working Read more…

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon – Davíd Ólaffsson:  Minor knowledge and Microhistory.

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon – Davíd Ólaffsson:  Minor knowledge and Microhistory. Manuscript Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Routledge, 2017. This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some Read more…

Papers presented

Losonczy and Aldana: Colliding military conceptions at 16th century Hungary (Dániel Molnár) Prostitutes’ family life and divorce in Budapest, 1867–1918: The normal exception (Áron Tőtös) Migration from a small rural community in Norway 1865-1910 (Oddgeir Fossli)

Participiants

Bragi Bergsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavík) Elizabeth S. Cohen (York University, Toronto, Canada) Thomas Cohen (York University, Toronto, Canada) Oddgeir Fossli (Volda University College, Norway) Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir (University of Iceland, Reykjavík) Károly Halmos (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary) Helgi Theodor Houkson (University of Stavanger, Norway – University of Iceland, Reykjavík) Read more…

Mikrotörténelem másodfokon

Mikrotörténelem másodfokon [Microhistory raised to the second power] Gábor Papp – István Szijártó (eds.). L’Harmattan: Budapest, 2010. 306 pages, ISBN 978-963-236-331-8 The essays of this volume offer a glance into the historian’s workshop. Its central concept is reflection: first, the essays are not microhistorical themselves, but they reflect on both Read more…