Religious, Intellectual, and Cultural History

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 506-523
Author(s):  
Karin Vélez

Abstract Inspired by Merry Wiesner-Hanks’ What is Early Modern History? chapter on religious, intellectual, and cultural history, this reflection considers the current state of these three subfields. It advocates for early modern historians to expand their bounding of religion beyond Christianity and Europe. It is also a call to extend the list of agents credited with the production of science, Enlightenment, and “culture.”

Author(s):  
M.ª José de la Pascua

RESUMENEn este estudio se realiza un estado de la cuestión de la producción española sobre la historia de la muerte reflexionando acerca de sus modelos historiográficos y metodológicos, la orientación de sus objetivos y su ubicación en un eje histórico básico: las coordenadas tiempo y espacio. Más que un recorrido exhaustivo por autores y trabajos que pudiera sugerir un tema agotado, se plantea la necesidad de incorporar la perspectiva individual en el análisis de la vivencia histórica de la muerte y la utilización integral de la fuente testamentaria valorando su condición de documento personal, cuya inclusión permitiría una aproximación al tema más compleja y matizada.PALABRAS CLAVEActitudes y discursos ante la muerte, historia de la muerte, siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII, historiografía española, historia de las mentalidades, historia moderna. TITLEDiscourses and practices around death. Reflections about 40 years of modern historiography in SpainABSTRACTIn this study I discuss the matter of Spanish works about the history of death, reflecting on its historiographies and methodological models, the orientation of its aims and its location on a basic historical axis: the time-space axis. More than an exhaustive study of authors and works that might lead one to think about an over discussed topic, I bring to attention the need to incorporate individual perspective in the analysis of the experience of death and the integral use of the testamentary source, acknowledging its condition as a personal document, the recognition of which allows an approach to a most complex and nuanced subject.KEY WORDSAttitudes and Discourses to Death; History of Death; XVI, XVII and XVIII Centuries; Spanish Historiographic; Cultural History; Early Modern History.


Author(s):  
Tom Hamilton

This chapter explores the material culture of everyday life in late-Renaissance Paris by setting L’Estoile’s diaries and after-death inventory against a sample of the inventories of thirty-nine of his colleagues. L’Estoile and his family lived embedded in the society of royal office-holders and negotiated their place in its hierarchy with mixed success. His home was cramped and his wardrobe rather shabby. The paintings he displayed in the reception rooms reveal his iconoclastic attitude to the visual, contrasting with the overwhelming number of Catholic devotional pictures displayed by his colleagues. Yet the collection he stored in his study and cabinet made him stand out in his milieu as a distinguished curieux. It deserves a place in the early modern history of collecting, as his example reveals that the civil wars might be a stimulus as much as a disruption to collecting in sixteenth-century France.


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