Directions of knowledge and schools in historiography

R. Torstendahl

Uppsala University, Department of History, Uppsala, 751 26 Sweden

E-mail: rolf.torstendahl@hist.uu.se

Received October 19, 2021

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DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.6.9-15

For citation: Torstendahl R. Directions of knowledge and schools in historiography. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2021, vol. 163, no. 6, pp. 9–15. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.6.9-15.

Abstract

After a short terminological introduction, this article discusses the origin of schools as collective knowledge producers. European historiography had not seen such schools until Leopold von Ranke started his teaching, which included historical research through seminars. His school became paradigmatic. However, from the late 19th century, nationalist historians, who rallied around political ideas rather than around new historical knowledge, challenged the Rankean conception. Another challenge came from historians gathering around a French journal, the Annales. From Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, these historians had different ideas about historical research, but there were links between the conceptions of history in the second and third generation of editors. Thereby, they also came to precede the present with its different directions of historiography based on ideas of fruitful areas for research.

Keywords: historiography, school of historiography, direction of historiography, nationalism, fruitful research, new knowledge, Leopold von Ranke, Ernst Bernheim, Johann Gustav Droysen, Heinrich von Treitschke, Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, Georges Duby, Emmanuel Le Roi Ladurie

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