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…
Ruptures in the Everyday. Views of Modern Germany from the Ground Lead Authors: Andrew Stuart Bergerson and Leonard Schmieding 342 pages, 22 illus., 4 maps, blbliog., index ISBN 978-1-78533-532-7 $120.00/£85.00 Hb Not Yet Published (June 2017) eISBN 978-1-78533-533-4 eBook Not Yet Published “The studies collected in this fascinating ‘experiment in collaborative Read more…
Microhistory and the Historical Imagination: New Frontiers An issue of: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Volume: 47 Issue: 1 Description Microhistory first developed in the 1970s and 1980s to meet a particular set of challenges in writing medieval and early modern history. This special issue of JMEMS will explore how Read more…
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. 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…
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…
Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi: Wasteland with Words. A social history of Iceland. Reaktion Books, 2010. 288 pages Iceland is an enigmatic island country marked by contradiction: it’s a part of Europe, yet separated from it by the Atlantic Ocean; it’s seemingly inhospitable, yet home to more than 300,000.Wasteland with Words explores Read more…
István M. Szijártó: Tapasztalatok, cselekvő egyének, felelősség. Oroszország mikrotörténelmének tanulságai [Experience, agency, responsability. The lessons of Russia’s microhistory] Keszthely: Balaton Akadémia Kiadó, 2011. pp. 97. In Hungarian. This book seeks to answer the question why microhistory is good history by analyzing a few recent works on Russia’s history. While examining Read more…
Simona Cerutti: Étrangers: Étude d’une condition d’incertitude dans une société d’Ancien Régime. Bayard, 2012. 301 pages In this book, Simona Cerutti challenges common assumptions about “the Other” and “Othering”. She sees as overly influencing European historiography during the last several decades. She begins with a sharp critique of their conceptual Read more…
Otto Ulbricht: Mikrogeschichte. Menschen und Konflikte in der Frühen Neuzeit. 2009. 410 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-593-38909-7 Ein Vogt, der seinem Herrn die Stirn bietet, eine junge Frau, die sich weigert, eine schon geschlossene Ehe zu vollziehen, ein zündelnder »Kurpfuscher « – das sind nur drei der Geschichten aus der Zeit zwischen Read more…