Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe : Selections from Quaderni Storici

by Muir, Edward; Ruggiero, Guido

• ISBN13: 9780801841835
• ISBN10: 0801841836
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-09-01
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

"An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory... In essence these historians begin their analysis 'from below,' viewing the ordinary peoples ignored in the annals of European history."-- Catholic Historical Review. Selections from Quaderni Storici.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Observing Trifles	p. vii
The Name and the Game: Unequal Exchange and the Historiographic Marketplace	p. 1
The Dovecote Has Opened Its Eyes	p. 11
Ritual Pillages: A Preface to Research in Progess	p. 20
The Ox's Bones and the Ox's Hide: A Popular Myth, Part Hagiography and Part Witchcraft	p. 42
The Kings of the Dead on the Battlefield of Agnadello	p. 71
Jews, the Local Church, the "Prince" and the People: Two Late Fifteenth-Century Episodes Involving the Destruction of Sacred Images	p. 101
The Political System of a Community in Liguria: Cervo in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries	p. 119
Unwed Mothers in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Clinical Histories and Life Histories	p. 159
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