Microhistory and the Historical Imagination: New Frontiers
Thomas Robisheaux
Microhistory, far from a brief and controversial experiment in history writing of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, has become one most creative ways to tackle difficult problems our time. This JMEMS special issue brings together practicing microhistorians who are taking microhistorical practices into new frontiers. A major roundtable discussion features an open-ended conversation about archives, many read document, scaling historical perspective, possibilities story-telling, nature limits knowledge. The articles that follow, by particpants themselves, bring methodology study social cultural history, legal crime, gender (making use often overlooked potential literary texts), global history. These reflect openness self-reflexivity characterize their craft.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies