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- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2016 by the
- ISSN
- 0942-8704
- eISSN
- 2194-4032
- DOI
- 10.7788/ha-2016-0206
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Abstract
Debatte Microhistory in Extension1 by After its invention as a method and practice of historical research and writing in the 1970s, 80s and 90s the recent "renaissance" of microhistory seems as a new and remarkable historiographical development.2 it is true, there are continuities. new studies using the term "microhistorical" in their titles and subtitles continue certain older patterns. this is the case for instance with a microhistorical study that was recently published: Albion urdank's fine study "Birth, Death, and religious Faith in an english Dissenting community: A microhistory of nailsworth and Hinterland, 16951837".3 it uses the method of nominative family reconstitution developed much earlier by the "cambridge group for the History of population and social structure" for an investigation of the relationships between different kinds of religious faith and socio-demographic behaviour in an english local community and its hinterland. Quantitative microhistorical studies like these remain important, because their method brings to light patterns of human behaviour and their causes in crucial life events. in the case of urdank's study, it is the primacy of the event of religious conversion over the period and the incidence of marriage for the fertility histories of women and men; an interconnection that
Journal
Historische Anthropologie – de Gruyter
Published: Aug 1, 2016