Historiographical Production Research Articles

Dominance within the ecclesia: the case of late medieval Portugal

This article aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of a theoretical perspective. It argues that, in medieval society, the ecclesia, in its threefold sense (the community of the faithful, ecclesiastical hierarchies, and cult buildings) played a determinant role in organising different interlocked social relations. Thus, this role is critical to understanding the reproduction of dominant groups, whose organisation must be conceived through the ecclesia. This article is based on the Portuguese aristocracy. The historiographical production of the last few decades on different themes is synthesised and organised according to this theoretical perspective, seeking to highlight its operability and the paths it opens for a more grounded understanding of medieval social dynamics.

Social demands and historiographical production. Writing on the history of the brazilian student movement from two experiences in the brazilian present time

Social demands and historiographical production. Writing on the history of the brazilian student movement from two experiences in the brazilian present time

História e Cultura Sonora: a historicização das escutas e dos sons

The article provides an overview of recent production focused on the historicization of sounds and listening, present in the texts that compose the dossier História e Cultura Sonora. In general, it is possible to indicate that three major currents prevail in these works: the anglophone Sound Studies, the History of Sensibilities of French tradition and Latin American studies, which, although inspired by the previous two, strive not to confine themselves to classical discussions but to reflect on the specificities of sound production and modes of listening within their cultures. The text also evaluates the impact of phonography and the digitization of sound collections on historiographical production in the field of Sound Culture.

Perspectives on Religious History in Early Modern Portugal: Problems, Historiographic Production and Challenges

This article aims to outline a panoramic view of the paths taken by researchers, in the last 15 years, in the field of the religious history of the Modern Period in Portugal. Starting from the identification of the scientific production and activities that have achieved a more relevant place in the framework of the study of the religious history in early modern Portugal, since the 1950s, this article draws attention to a set of subjects that urgently need to be debated. It will be argued that research in the area in question continues to constitute a challenge. The focus of this article is the European space of Portugal, not considering productions and research about Portuguese imperial spaces, namely Asia and Brazil.

Macedonian Historiography: The Question of Identity and Politics

Historians are playing an important role in Macedonian society. Their understanding of history and their focus of research interest revolves around the national identity of Macedonians and differentiating them from Others. In recent decades, the political debates in the Republic of (North) Macedonia and its relations with Bulgaria and Greece have had important impact on historiographic production and the new (revisionist) interpretations of the past. History has become an essential element in contemporary politics that is key for framing the national identity of the Macedonians. In this new political context historians are even more engaged in political campaigns and debates, thus making them and their historiographical work one of the sources for symbolic division in the country.

Between Political Constraints and Professional Historical Writing: Three Decades of Croatian Historiography (1990–2021)

Like most European historiographies, modern Croatian historiography was founded in the second half of the nineteenth century. It coincided with the appearance and spread of nationalism – what is more, it was one of its essential components. Nonetheless, the number of historians in Croatia remained small for a long period of time (In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, approximately twenty historians worked in universities, museums, and archives), and historiographic production was modest and methodologically traditional. The number of historians and institutions dedicated to historical writing increased significantly in the decades following the Second World War, reflecting the importance placed on history by the communist authorities. Approximately one hundred historians were employed in Croatia at the time of its independence in the early 1990s, principally at the country's two universities and a number of historical institutes. Today, Croatia – a country with a population of less than four million – offers up to eight undergraduate and graduate history programs, as well as several doctoral programs. More than 300 professional historians work in faculties, institutes and other institutions such as archives, museums or non-governmental organisations.

Public History e Metadata Da fonti a oggetti informativi. Diffusione, didattica, co-creazione

The dematerialisation of information and the development of Information Systems combined with the use of flexible metadata standards enable a new accessibility for the sources. Matching this new accessibility with the bottom-up historiographic production promoted by Public History enables the development of new forms of history teaching and the generation of information objects through participatory metadata creation with a community of reference. Through the analysis of three different cases, this article brings out the importance of metadata for the organisation, archiving and use of historical sources in a Public History perspective.

De ausencias, deudas y legados: La historiografía sobre la educación en España entre 1808 y 1814

The Napoleonic invasion generated in the Hispanic Monarchy a political and social division between those who defended the interference of the foreign king and the liberals and absolutists who had joined in a kind of tacit alliance whose aim was to banish José I. The historiography about the topic has been crossed by this division that favored a number of studies on the period. However, the educational issue was not always approached with the same intensity, generating vacancy areas that require deep rethinking about the legacies of an era. This paper proposes an analysis of the historiographic production that took education as its field of study during the interregnum of 1808-1814. To do this, we resort to a bibliographic search in two directions: the exploration through search engines and institutional repositories and the search in external references, that is, the search for citations and bibliographic references.

Viejos y nuevos rumbos en la historiografía del periodismo impreso cubano del siglo xx. Una cartografía del campo de la historia de la prensa

El artículo analiza la producción historiográfica acerca de la prensa impresa cubana del siglo XX. La revisión documental constató diversidad de enfoques teórico-metodológicos. De volúmenes apegados al anecdotario, se pasa a textos que intentan explicar las interdependencias entre la producción periodística y el contexto del complejo siglo XX cubano. Se constata el estado aún incipiente de los estudios sobre la historia de la prensa en la isla. Esta revisión permite dar a conocer los trabajos más importantes realizados en los últimos años y sugerir temáticas en las que urge investigar.

Edward Roberts. Flodoard of Rheims and the Writing of History in the Tenth Century.

In this impressive debut monograph, Flodoard of Rheims and the Writing of History in the Tenth Century, Edward Roberts revisits the life and works of Rheims-based canon, archivist, and historian Flodoard as a vehicle for studying the writing of history in “a period that is increasingly being understood as a critical phase in the transformation of the Carolingian world and the rise of the Latin West” (1). The book’s opening pages contain a formidable mission statement that captures the essence—and the considerable ambition—of Roberts’s undertaking. We are told that “Flodoard’s histories have seldom been considered in the context of his personal life and political career” (1), which is why he remains, in Roberts’s words, “one of the least understood and most objectified authors of the early Middle Ages” (1). This, then, is the status quo this new study seeks to address by arguing that Flodoard “far from being an unassuming or ‘objective’ writer … was in fact a highly creative and careful shaper of his material” (1). But this is not the full extent of Roberts’s ambition. What is more, he seeks something of a rehabilitation of the tenth century as an era of low reputation with regard to historiographical production. Building on important groundwork laid in the 1970s and 1990s, Roberts’s book considers Flodoard’s historiographical oeuvre in its entirety, including, for the first time, a substantial—this reviewer is inclined to call it near comprehensive—discussion of his Annales.

Black Skin, White Masks and the Paradoxical Politics of Black Historiography

Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks has the paradoxical status of being a text that rejects historiography and History as a primary means of facilitating radical political transformation while also being a key point of departure for histories concerning modern colonial and decolonial thought.1 This reflection is an examination of the tensions in Black Skin, White Masks as a political work and as an intervention into philosophical, psychoanalytic, literary, and existential debates. Prompted by the 70th anniversary of the publication of Black Skin, White Masks, I examine the richness of the past two decades of historiographical scholarship on slavery, abolition, and freedom struggles in the Caribbean and North America alongside arguments that Fanon made about the limited role of history in sustaining and guiding anti-colonial thought and praxis. Black Skin, White Masks remains relevant, albeit troubling, for querying the presumed connections between historical knowledge, political action, and scholarly production facilitated by academic and political trends. I am interested in how the provocations of Black Skin, White Masks, in particular its last chapter “By Way of Conclusion,” provides fertile grounds for questioning, positioning, and refining contemporary historiographical production.

Stage of establishment of Pentecostalism in Cuba

Studies on the diversity of existing religious groups are a recurring theme in current historiographical production. Among them, it is worth mentioning the Pentecostal movement as one of the most investigated from the different fields of knowledge, given its rapid expansion and impact within societies. The present work aims to explain the establishment of the Pentecostal movement in Cuba, taking into account the historical context of its arrival and its development until the forties of the 20th century. In order to achieve this goal, we begin by explaining how Pentecostalism arose, and in a second stage we will deal with how this religious denomination was introduced in the island, who were the main precursors of the movement in the country and where they came from

La nascita e lo sviluppo del nesso tryphé-decadenza nella storiografia ellenistica

In the 4th century BC Greek historiography abandons the monographic genre to propose a general interpretation of history: a possible interpretative key is that of tryphé, excessive luxury that corrupts and leads to an unstoppable decadence cities, peoples and states. The first theoretical elaboration of the tryphé-decadence nexus occurs in the historiographical work of Ephorus of Cyme and Timaeus of Tauromenium. In later Greek historiography, however, the concept of tryphé remains in most cases connected to a moral judgment, without becoming a true criterion of historical interpretation. And if in this sense it has been too often interpreted by the moderns, this is probably due to the influence on them exerted by the Roman historiography. In it the equivalent of tryphé can be considered the luxuria, understood as corrupting luxury, which since the 2nd century BC would lead to a progressive weakening of Rome and that in the historiographic production sees an insistent connection between the social ethics, precisely corrupt, and the political decadence.

L’Africano Maggiore nella storiografia italiana del primo dopoguerra.

This paper aims to analyse the reception of the character of Scipio Africanus in the Italian historiographical production of the Ventennio fascista (1922-1943), comparing the main interpretative lines, mostly centred on Scipio’s political role and on the idea of imperialism. The analysis also attempts to show how the interest in Scipio’s biography during the mid-1930s decreased in the 1940s, after the Italian defeats in Africa and the fall of the fascist regime. In addition to the Italian translation of Liddell Hart's biography of Scipio Africanus, the works of E. Pais, G. Giannelli, S. Maurano, A. Consiglio, E. Ciaceri, F. S. Grazioli and F. Valori will be considered more specifically.

1989: «Great Turning Point» or «Rotten Compromise». Poles' Memory of the Collapse of the Communist System

The article discusses the events in Poland of 1989, specifically of the Round Table Negotiations and the elections of June the 4th 1989. A short overview of the 1980s that led to the fall of communist regime is presented, and main representatives of historiographic production devoted to this topic are laid out, with some controversies as well. Much attention is devoted to variations of memory of that events. The division of political scenery today runs mostly along the same lines which divide different memories of 1989.

On the Writing of History of Science in Brazil in the Second Half of the 20th Century

The present article is elaborated in two parts. In the first part, we present a survey of authors and their works that throughout the second half of the 20th century, developed significant references for the history of science in Brazil, establishing and consolidating this field of studies in the country, with an exacerbated emphasis on the historical aspects that occurred in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In the second part of the article, we present a concrete historical experience in the 19th century, in the province of Ceará, totally disregarded by the traditional and the current historiographic production of history of science. This situation ultimately raises the question: What is the history of Brazilian science? What are the determinants of the history of science in Brazil? To what extent is the history of science in Brazil national?

THE TROIA CHRONICLE AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL PRODUCTION IN MEDIEVAL PUGLIA

Historiographical production within twelfth-century Puglia seems to have been markedly limited, and this frustrates attempts to access internal perspectives on a region which played a pivotal socio-political and economic role within southern Italy as it fell under Norman rule, and was subsequently absorbed into the new Kingdom of Sicily in 1130. It might, however, be possible to bolster the region's twelfth-century historiographical outputs if we were to include a largely overlooked and problematic source, the so-called Fragmentary Troia Chronicle. It is a short, hybridized and fragmented Latin text usually assumed to be late twelfth-century as a result of its chronological coverage. It consists of an annalistic-style account of political and religious events mostly of relevance to the northern Pugliese city of Troia and its bishopric, and ostensibly covers 1014 to 1124/7. It is accompanied by what also seems to be an appendix of documents (some dated later than the annalistic section) associated with the city's bishopric. This article therefore offers the first extended analysis of the Troia Chronicle's place within Pugliese historiographical production. It revisits questions around its authenticity, examines potential contexts surrounding its production and content, and provides the first English translation of the narrative section of the chronicle. In so doing, it argues that we must tread carefully when using this source, but that the Troia Chronicle's existence and its main chronological focus could at the very least hold significance as a marker of an enduring remembrance of a vibrant era of episcopal, literary and urban development in this Pugliese city in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Historical Discourse and Narrativity

AbstractMost theorists of history now seem to regard narrative as the only discursive model on which historians rely to make sense of the past. The structure of many works in current historiographic production, however, is not that of a narrative as defined in literary theory. The histories of World War II discussed here, for example, do not all tell a story; several of them take the form of synchronic analyses bearing on some aspects of the conflict. Furthermore, those histories of the war that tell a story follow different models and have widely divergent degrees of narrativity. That is, they resort at various levels of frequency and deliberateness to strategies that narratologists such as Meir Sternberg and Raphaël Baroni view as typical of storytelling. Positing readers who know how the war ended (the Allies won), they do not turn to suspense but seek to arouse curiosity by making counterfactual hypotheses (What if?) that offer alternatives to what actually happened. Furthermore, they attempt to create surprise by proposing “new versions” grounded in recently uncovered evidence and/or thus far unasked questions. As Dorrit Cohn speaks of the “distinction of fiction,” it would thus be legitimate to speak in these areas of the “distinction of historiography.” Indeed, the classical nineteenth-century extra-heterodiegetic narratives to which histories are frequently compared are unlikely to include counterfactuals, as they are unlikely to offer new, “better” versions of the events that they report.

La investigación sobre la historia de la inspección de educación en España. Balance y perspectivas

With this work on the history of the education inspection in Spain, we set two objectives. On the one hand, compile and evaluate the historiographical production made up to the present. On the other, to raise new topics and research perspectives for future education historians. Most of the historical works on inspection have been written in the last thirty years. Many dedicated to a specific period of history, especially in relation to the Second Republic or Franco, others with a geographical demarcation. But more extensive research has also been carried out, where it has been studied how the inspection has been affected by the changes made in your organization, or its role in the implementation of certain educational policies.

Los estudios históricos sobre la educación de los italianos en la Argentina. Temas, abordajes y algunas propuestas

El artículo analiza la producción historiográfica dedicada al estudio de los diversos proyectos educativos que entre fines del siglo XIX y mediados del XX se dirigieron a los italianos emigrados a la Argentina y a sus descendientes. La primera parte se detiene en las investigaciones sobre las escuelas de las asociaciones italianas de ayuda mutua y sobre las escuelas salesianas, analizándolas a la luz de los debates sobre el modelo interpretativo del “crisol de razas” y del “pluralismo cultural”. La segunda parte reflexiona sobre los trabajos que abordan la relación entre los inmigrantes y el sistema escolar argentino, ya sea estudiando las políticas educativas “nacionalizadoras” o la presencia extranjera en la escuela pública. Finalmente, se señalan nuevas fuentes y líneas de trabajo que podrían ampliar las investigaciones del área, como el estudio específicamente educativo del funcionamiento de estas instituciones luego de la Gran Guerra.