Research, biographical choice and the writing of history: biographying the duke of Caxias
In this article, I intend to work with the concept of experience and its links with the production of knowledge in history, based on a reflection on the course, the choices and the methodological interventions I had to make while writing a biographical thesis, and also on the experiences I have live...
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 2012 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | UFOP |
| Repository: | História da Historiografia |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br:article/401 |
| Online Access: | https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/401 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Biography Experience History writing Biografía Experiencia Escritura de la Historia Biografia Experiência Escrita da História |
| Summary: | In this article, I intend to work with the concept of experience and its links with the production of knowledge in history, based on a reflection on the course, the choices and the methodological interventions I had to make while writing a biographical thesis, and also on the experiences I have lived during my researches. Through a close dialogue with Reinhart Koselleck and an Italian historiographical tradition based on micro-history, I intend to reflect on two sets of issues that shaped the research. The first is the political and historical importance of the memory in which I intended to interfere with: the memory of the Duke of Caxias. The other is more theoretical, about writing a thesis in history based on the uniqueness of a character’s life. |
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