historiography

Bloglite from magistra 21 days old

I feel I should warn any readers who come along to this site that there are not going to be many updates in the next few months. This is because I am ...

Can we believe Gregory of Tours about Obama? from magistra 47 days old

Historians once largely believed what Gregory of Tours wrote in his ‘Ten Books of History’ (which is how the History of the Franks is now more accurately ...

History Matters 2: Change and continuity in feminist history from magistra 232 days old

One of Judith Bennett’s main arguments in History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) is that ...

Viking terrorists from magistra 237 days old

I don’t know how the conference Between the Islands: Interaction with Vikings in Ireland and Britain in the Early Medieval Period , which took place ...

History Matters 1: Patriarchy and intentionality from magistra 239 days old

I’ve just started reading Judith Bennett’s History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), which ...

The Norman Leviathan and Good Old Law from magistra 255 days old

[ ... ] Discussions of ‘modern’ historiography, although they can be interesting, often don’t seem to me to be very substantial historical fare in a ...

Gender versus class in women’s history from magistra 263 days old

Anyone working on the history of women has at some point to consider the problem of social class and how much priority to give it. Does it make sense ...

Arnaldo Momigliano: a lack of appreciation? from magistra 267 days old

A recent conference on the legacy of the historian Arnaldo Momigliano apparently saw poor attendance by younger researchers, which has got some people ...

What makes a grand narrative useful? from magistra 369 days old

This post is probably best seen as a remix of some of the arguments in the last two posts, prompted by some of the very useful comments I’ve had on those. ...

Medieval archaeology and the Campaign for Socio-Economic History from magistra 375 days old

Before Chris Wickham’s lecture on ‘Problems with the dialogue between medieval history and medieval archaeology’ to the joint seminars of the Institute ...