WHAT IS MICROHISTORY ?

This unique and detailed analysis provides the first accessible and comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, methodol ogy of microhistory - one of the most significant innovations in historical scholarship to have emerged in the last few decades. The introduction guides the reader through the best-known example of microstoria, The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, and expla ins the benefits of studying an event, place or person in microscopic detail. In Part I, Istvan M. Szijarto examines the ...