Overview
- Demonstrates the approach of microhistory through medieval history
- Presents specific examples of how to do microhistory
- Appeals to interdisciplinary specialists in the fields of history and literary study
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general. Paul Dutton provides an overview of microhistorical approaches and theorizes about its use in pre-modern history. As opposed to studying history “from above” or history “from below,” Dutton shows the advantages for historians of doing history “from the inside out,” starting from some single, overlooked, but potentially knowable thing, delving deep inside, and then reattaching it to its time and place. Such an approach has one abiding advantage: its insistence on being grounded in the particularity of the evidence. The book highlights what the microhistorical is, its conceptual and practical challenges. Dutton argues that the attention to the micro has always been with us and is a constitutive, cognitive part of who we are as human beings.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Paul Edward Dutton is Emeritus Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, a former president of the Canadian Society of Medievalists and councillor of the Medieval Academy of America, and author of eight books, monographs, editions and translations of medieval materials.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Micro Middle Ages
Authors: Paul Edward Dutton
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38267-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38266-6Published: 31 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38269-7Due: 01 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38267-3Published: 30 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 435
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medieval Literature, History of Medieval Europe, History, general, Literary Theory