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Micro Middle Ages

Micro Middle Ages

Dutton, Paul Edward

Hardcover

Series: New Middle Ages

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3031382668
ISBN13: 9783031382666
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 31 2023
Pages: 435
Weight: 1.51
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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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