The most celebrated works of microhistory are Carlo Ginzberg's The Cheese and the Worms, a difficult but very rewarding, if contentious, exploration of popular belief and the impact of literacy in sixteenth-century Italy[…]
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Microhistory
Synonyms for "microhistory"
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6 translations across 6 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- microhistòria noun (study of the past on a small scale)
French
1 entries- microhistoire noun (study of the past on a small scale)
German
1 entries- Mikrogeschichte noun (study of the past on a small scale)
Italian
1 entries- microstoria noun (study of the past on a small scale)
Portuguese
1 entries- micro-história noun (study of the past on a small scale)
Spanish
1 entries- microhistoria noun (study of the past on a small scale)
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What is certain is that in “The Pattern in the Carpet,” Drabble eschews both chronology and raw autobiographical revelation for a more meandering approach that touches briefly on family pathology and private pain as it crisscrosses the centuries and unfolds the microhistory of jigsaw puzzles, an English invention, circa 1767.
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