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Project

From cause célèbre to microhistory: toward a history of synchronic history-writing
Code
3G003113
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2018
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Comparative literature studies
    • Literatures in Spanish
Keywords
cause célèbre microhistory synchronic history-writing 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century Literary studies
 
Project description
 

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.