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Microhistories


About the Series

Microhistories is open to books employing different microhistorical approaches: global microhistories aimed at grasping world-wide connections in local research, social history trying to find determining historical structures through a micro-analysis and cultural history in the form of microhistories that relate directly to large or small scale historical contexts are equally welcome. We will also publish interesting stories, bringing the everyday life and culture of common people of the past close to the readers, without the aspiration of finding answers to general "big questions" or relating them to the grand narratives of history. The series is open to publishing both theoretical and empirical works. It is, indeed, often hard to separate the two, especially in microhistory. However, our main focus will be on empirical monographs which are likely to communicate stories from the past which will capture the imagination of our readers. The geographical scope of the series is global and so non- European works or those which cross territorial boundaries are welcome. Any scholar who wishes to contribute to the series will be asked to make sure that they address important issues that can be researched with the methods of microhistory.

For more information about the series and the proposal process, please contact the series editors, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon ([email protected]) and István M. Szijártó ([email protected]).

Editorial Board: Andrew Bergerson, Simona Cerutti, Chuanfei Chin, Dagmar Freist, Carlo Ginzburg, Binne de Haan, Karl Jacoby, Giovanni Levi, Edward Muir, Matti Peltonen, Hans Renders, Jacques Revel, and Dana Sajdi.

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The Great Nightmen Conspiracy A Tale of the 18th Century’s Dishonourable Underworld

The Great Nightmen Conspiracy: A Tale of the 18th Century’s Dishonourable Underworld

1st Edition

By Tyge Krogh
August 27, 2019

The Great Nightmen Conspiracy explores the little-known magico-religious history of eighteenth-century Denmark. Essential tasks carried out by the nightmen, such as dealing with carcasses and assisting with executions, generated contempt from the rest of society but also led to the nightmen ...

Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London Communities and Reforms

Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London: Communities and Reforms

1st Edition

By Gary G Gibbs
June 24, 2019

Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London presents linked microhistorical studies of five London parishes, using their own parish records to reconstruct their individual operations, religious practices, and societies. The parish was a foundational institution in Tudor London. Every ...

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World Being “Much Afflicted with Conscience”

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World: Being “Much Afflicted with Conscience”

1st Edition

By Margaret Murányi Manchester
June 04, 2019

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family and community life during the "Great Migration" through the microhistorical study of one puritan family in 1638 Rhode Island. Through studying the Verin family, a group of English non-conformists ...

Roman Tales A Reader’s Guide to the Art of Microhistory

Roman Tales: A Reader’s Guide to the Art of Microhistory

1st Edition

By Thomas V. Cohen
May 24, 2019

Roman Tales: A Reader’s Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory. This book draws the reader deep into eight stories: a Christian-Jewish picnic plus an ill-aimed stone fight, an embassy-driven ...

A Tale of a Fool? A Microhistory of an 18th-Century Peasant Woman

A Tale of a Fool?: A Microhistory of an 18th-Century Peasant Woman

1st Edition

By Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir
April 01, 2019

A Tale of a Fool? explores the life of Guðrún Ketilsdóttir, a peasant woman born in Iceland around 1759. Guðrún worked as a farmhand for most of her adult life, and when she died she left behind a partial autobiography, which is believed to be the oldest autobiography of an Icelandic peasant woman....

The Revolt of Snowballs Murano Confronts Venice, 1511

The Revolt of Snowballs: Murano Confronts Venice, 1511

1st Edition

By Claire Judde de Larivière
June 18, 2018

The Revolt of Snowballs unpicks a rare and turbulent event which occurred in 1511 and investigates the meaning behind it. On January 27, 1511, the island of Murano was the scene of an exceptional event during which the representative of Venice, exercising power in the island on behalf of the ...

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