Considerations Regarding the Methodological and Interpretative Innovations of Microhistory Cover Image

Consideraţii cu privire la inovaţiile metodologice şi interpretative microistorice
Considerations Regarding the Methodological and Interpretative Innovations of Microhistory

Author(s): Carmen Maria Dorlan
Subject(s): History
Published by: Editura Universităţii Petru Maior
Keywords: microhistory; history of historiography; historical reality; Alltagsgeschichte; social creativity.

Summary/Abstract: The present article intends to reflect on the significance of methodological and interpretative principles promoted in microhistorical works in order to offer a better access to historical reality. Based on analytical discourse of the most representative microhistorical works, mainly resulted from the scholarly activity in Italian centres, German or Anglo-American historical writing and on historiographical reflections on microhistory during the last decades, the innovations applied are selected in order to define not only the place of microhistory in the historical evolution but also to establish the changes operated in its relations to other disciplines and the viability of this type of historical investigations in recent historiography.

  • Issue Year: 09/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 359-372
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian