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Product Identifiers
PublisherMohr Siebeck
ISBN-103161531779
ISBN-139783161531774
eBay Product ID (ePID)201647653
Product Key Features
Number of Pages446 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTopography of a Method : Franois Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History
Publication Year2014
SubjectHistoriography, Cultural Heritage, General, Historical
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorHenning Trüper
SeriesHistorische Wissensforschung Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight27.9 Oz
Item Length6.5 in
Item Width9.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2015-379669
Series Volume Number2
IllustratedYes
SynopsisWhat does the practical work of writing contribute to historical writing? What does it mean for historical knowledge that it is, inescapably, written? Henning Truper explores quotidian practices of writing as constituting the working life of a historian, the Belgian mediaevalist Francois Louis Ganshof (1895-1980). The argument draws on a large variety of texts and writing situations, so as to discuss, across the fault lines of twentieth-century historiography, shifting patterns of methodological discourse; procedures of historicisation; the making of scholarly sociability in writing practice; and finally the actual writing of historical text. Ganshof the historian, whether as author, reader, teacher, student, polemic, diplomat, witness, or mere voice on the radio, remained bound to paperwork, an ensemble of small-scale routines and makeshift solutions that ultimately lacked a central steering agency. The nexus between historical knowledge and paperwork was indissoluble.
LC Classification NumberD15.G36.T78 2014
