One can tell that İnalcık is a Western historian, after looking at what he has been writing in English mostly and that his approach is deeply Weberian. Leading modern Turkish historians, including Fuat Köprülü, Ömer Lütfi Barkan and Halil İnalcık, have always been interested in the progress in Western historiography. A document is only itself until the historian puts the label "historical" on it, and it tells only what is written on it unless the historian makes a specific interpretation of it for the reader. This de-centralized historiography is also criticized for being too large, teaching nothing important and creating a sort of documentation fetishism. And none of the chapters, dimensions, regions or aspects is any less important than the other. Everything is related to everything in Braudel's understanding. Instead, he tried to recreate Renaissance Europe with all its dimensions, including economic and social life concerns. This new approach would reshape the historiography of modern times.įernand Braudel is generally considered as the second founder of the Annales School because he was not interested in a mentality analysis of ancient personalities. In the 20th century, Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch began to examine the mentality of historical figures such as priests or villagers rather than kings and noble lords of the feudal era. First, Jacob Burckhardt examined everyday life in Renaissance Italy. Prior to the 19th century, ordinary people were not accepted as the subjects of history.
Founded by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, the Annales School of history proposed the idea that the study of history is about all people in history, not only warlords and ruling classes.
The Annales School brought a new approach called "social history" that changed the essence of historiography.
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