33:
212:
Historians who use traditional narrative might say that the modern narrative overburdens the reader with trivial data that had no significant effect on the progression of history. They believe that the historian needs to stress what is consequential in history, as otherwise the reader might believe
165:
Though history is considered a social science, the story-based nature of history allows for the inclusion of a greater or lesser degree of narration in addition to an analytical or interpretative exposition of historical knowledge. It can be divided into two subgenres: the traditional narrative and
191:
typically focuses on structures and general trends. A modern narrative would break from rigid chronology if the historian felt it explained the concept better. In terms of the French
Revolution, a historian working with the modern narrative might show general traits that were shared by
200:
Historians who use the modern narrative might say that the traditional narrative focuses too much on what happened and not enough on why and causation. Also, that this form of narrative reduces history into neat boxes and thereby does an injustice to history.
196:
but would also illustrate regional variations from those general trends (many confluent revolutions). Also this type of historian might use different sociological factors to show why different types of people supported the general revolution.
209:, he remarked that "lumpers do not like accidents: they would prefer them vanish...The lumping historian wants to put all of the past into boxes..and then to tie all the boxes together into one nice shapely bundle."
172:
focuses on the chronological order of history. It is event driven and tends to center upon individuals, action, and intention. For example, in regard to the
136:
in a story-based form. It tends to entail history-writing based on reconstructing series of short-term events, and ever since the influential work of
176:, a historian who works with the traditional narrative might be more interested in the revolution as a single entity (one revolution), centre it in
97:
156:
in the early twentieth century, as he promoted forms of history-writing analysing much longer-term trends (what he called the
69:
232:, ed. by Michael Payne and Jessica Rae Barbera, 2nd edn (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), s.v. 'Braudel, Fernand' (p. 90).
17:
76:
50:
116:
83:
54:
65:
206:
241:
260:
43:
181:
90:
265:
8:
140:
on professionalising history-writing in the nineteenth century has been associated with
173:
137:
153:
158:
254:
202:
141:
32:
133:
193:
213:
that minor trivial events were more important than they were.
242:"The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory"
177:
205:
characterized such historians as "lumpers". In an essay on
57:. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
252:
180:, and rely heavily upon major figures such as
230:A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory
117:Learn how and when to remove this message
14:
253:
239:
55:adding citations to reliable sources
26:
24:
25:
277:
31:
42:needs additional citations for
240:White, Hayden (1 March 1984).
223:
13:
1:
216:
152:('event-history') coined by
148:thus overlaps with the term
7:
132:is the practice of writing
10:
282:
192:revolutionaries across
150:histoire événementielle
182:Maximilien Robespierre
166:the modern narrative.
170:Traditional narrative
51:improve this article
18:Historical narrative
66:"Narrative history"
174:French Revolution
146:narrative history
138:Leopold von Ranke
130:Narrative history
127:
126:
119:
101:
16:(Redirected from
273:
248:
246:
233:
227:
207:Christopher Hill
189:modern narrative
122:
115:
111:
108:
102:
100:
59:
35:
27:
21:
281:
280:
276:
275:
274:
272:
271:
270:
251:
250:
244:
237:
236:
228:
224:
219:
154:Fernand Braudel
123:
112:
106:
103:
60:
58:
48:
36:
23:
22:
15:
12:
11:
5:
279:
269:
268:
263:
261:Historiography
235:
234:
221:
220:
218:
215:
125:
124:
107:September 2018
39:
37:
30:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
278:
267:
264:
262:
259:
258:
256:
249:
243:
231:
226:
222:
214:
210:
208:
204:
198:
195:
190:
185:
183:
179:
175:
171:
167:
163:
161:
160:
155:
151:
147:
143:
139:
135:
131:
121:
118:
110:
99:
96:
92:
89:
85:
82:
78:
75:
71:
68: –
67:
63:
62:Find sources:
56:
52:
46:
45:
40:This article
38:
34:
29:
28:
19:
238:
229:
225:
211:
199:
188:
187:Conversely,
186:
169:
168:
164:
159:longue durée
157:
149:
145:
129:
128:
113:
104:
94:
87:
80:
73:
61:
49:Please help
44:verification
41:
266:Narratology
144:. The term
255:Categories
217:References
203:J H Hexter
142:empiricism
77:newspapers
134:history
91:scholar
194:France
93:
86:
79:
72:
64:
245:(PDF)
178:Paris
98:JSTOR
84:books
70:news
162:).
53:by
257::
184:.
247:.
120:)
114:(
109:)
105:(
95:·
88:·
81:·
74:·
47:.
20:)
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.
