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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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The Orphans of Bishop Richard Fletcher: New Archival Discoveries on the Siblings of Playwright John Fletcher

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents new archival discoveries concerning the siblings of early modern playwright John Fletcher following the sudden death of their father, Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, in 1596. Navigating the epistemological limits of adversarial legal records from Chancery and the Star Chamber, the study reveals the tumultuous ...
Domenico Lovascio
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Visions in a Ninth-Century Village: an Early Medieval Microhistory [PDF]

, 2016
Microhistory is an approach that has largely passed the study of the early Middle Ages by, chiefly for lack of suitable evidence. This article however suggests that an account of a ninth-century peasant’s vision can be read to recover a microhistory of a
West, Charles; id_orcid, West, C.
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 237-256, June 2026.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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Female Microhistorical Archaeology

Open Archaeology
Microhistory is a part of historical research that focuses on the behaviours, practices, and perceptions of individuals and small communities, locating them in social, economic, and cultural frameworks. Although archaeology has already focused on similar
Casimiro Tânia Manuel
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Everyday Life during the Park Chung-hee’s Military Dictatorship in South Korea after the 1972 Yushin Constitution

Politeja
Park Chung-hee seized power through a military coup on May 16, 1961, and in October 1972, proposed the Yushin Constitution to solidify the foundation of his lifelong dictatorship.
Seungik Lee
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: “MICROANALYSIS AND SOCIAL HISTORY” (1977)*

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 257-270, June 2026.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article published by Edoardo Grendi in the Italian journal Quaderni storici, which functioned as the incubator of Italian microhistory.
EDOARDO GRENDI
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Kinding Culture

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Progress and dialogue in cultural analysis are often hindered by analysts' reliance on implicit ontic claims, namely, foundational, unstated assumptions about the expected properties and typical characteristics of cultural kinds, thus precluding proper debate and theoretical progress.
Omar Lizardo
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Prefaces to Translations: A Microhistory of Translation [PDF]

, 2020
Prefaces, as interface between translator and reader, translation and relevant historical contexts, offer an access to translation activities in history.
ZHU, Linghui
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Knowledge From the Margins – The Epistemological Promise of Microhistorical Theorizing in Organization Studies

Organization Theory
This paper proposes a feminist microhistorical approach to theorizing, which can complement the existing critiques remedying the epistemological bias of mainstream theories and conventional management history.
Pilvikki Lantela
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