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From cause célèbre to microhistory: toward a history of synchronic history-writing

This project examines an understudied historiographical genre: synchronic or episode-focused forms of history-writing. The project traces this genre from the recueils des causes célèbres of the eighteenth century to the emergence of microhistory in the twentieth. Tracing the structure of these forms and their impact on other genres, the study seeks to offer a diachronic history of synchronic history-writing.

Date:1 Jan 2013 →  31 Dec 2018
Keywords:cause célèbre, microhistory, synchronic history-writing
Disciplines:Comparative literature studies, Literatures in Spanish