Topography of a Method

François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-16-153177-4
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 437 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 167 mm, Gewicht: 787 g

Reihe: Historische Wissensforschung

What does the practical work of writing contribute to historical writing? What does it mean for historical knowledge that it is, inescapably, written? Henning Trüper explores quotidian practices of writing as constituting the working life of a historian, the Belgian mediaevalist François 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trüper, Henning

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Über Autor(innen)

Trüper, Henning
Born 1977; studied medieval and modern history, philosophy and German philology in Göttingen, Berkeley, Ghent; 2008 PhD EUI Florence; Postdoc UFSP Asia and Europe, University of Zurich; EHESS-CRH Paris; 2013-14 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Social Science.