History Continues

In this engaging intellectual autobiography, Georges Duby looks back on a career that has led him to be called one of the most distinguished historians in the Western world. Since its beginning in the 1940s, Duby's career has been rich and varied, encompassing economic history, social history, the history of mentalites, art history, microhistory, urban history, the history of women and sexuality, and, most recently, the Church's influence on feudal society. In retracing this singular career path, Duby candidly remembers his life's most formative influences, including the legendary historians Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, the Annales School so closely associated with them, and the College de France. Duby also offers insights about the proper methods of gathering and using archival data and on constructing penetrating interpretations of the documents. Indeed, his discussion of how he chose his subjects, collected his materials, developed the arguments, erected the scaffolding, and constructed his theses offers the best introduction to the craft available to aspiring historians.

First sentence: Influenced by one of my teachers, Jean Deniau, I had recently become a convert to history, and, more precisely, to medieval history.

Year

1994

Language

English

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Editions

1

Pages

166

ISBN

9780226167824

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