Micro Middle Ages / Paul Edward Dutton.
2023
D117
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Title
Micro Middle Ages / Paul Edward Dutton.
ISBN
9783031382673 (electronic bk.)
3031382676 (electronic bk.)
9783031382666
3031382668
3031382676 (electronic bk.)
9783031382666
3031382668
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
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1 online resource (xi, 435 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-031-38267-3 doi
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D117
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.1
Summary
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. 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.
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)), 2945-5944
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Table of Contents
1. Preamble
2. an Incident: The Strange Case of the Green Children
3. a Name: Heloise, Philosophess and Prostitute
4. a Scene: Slipping below the Surface of the Bayeux Tapestry
5. Meandering through Microhistory
6. a Sentence: The Desert War of a Carolingian Monk
7. a Joke: The Tiny Revolution of Theodulf's 'Stolen Horse'
8. a Color: Alcuin and the Bloody Rain
9. Ambles End in Tears.
2. an Incident: The Strange Case of the Green Children
3. a Name: Heloise, Philosophess and Prostitute
4. a Scene: Slipping below the Surface of the Bayeux Tapestry
5. Meandering through Microhistory
6. a Sentence: The Desert War of a Carolingian Monk
7. a Joke: The Tiny Revolution of Theodulf's 'Stolen Horse'
8. a Color: Alcuin and the Bloody Rain
9. Ambles End in Tears.