Practice question · Select all that apply
What did the Annales programme introduce to historical practice?
Hints
- The programme introduced problems, total subject matter and borrowing.
- It never restricted itself to countable evidence.
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- B. The whole of human activity — diet, fear, marriage, climate — as subject matter
- C. Borrowing freely from geography, economics, and anthropology
- D. Problem-oriented history in place of narrative of events
Why
Problems, total subject matter, and cheerful disciplinary raiding. They loved numbers but never confined themselves to them. Montaillou is a village of gossip, reconstructed from an inquisitor’s notes.
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