Hello everybody, it's my first time on /his/, it looks like

>>3306998
A historians bias is an intresting topic although I find it comes down less to societal influences and more to intentions regarding research, retrieving select information from data or building your conclusion on interpretation of texts. I'd say most history students do the former wheras only those with access to records can do the later.

>>3306998
An historian is always biased. Period.

>>3306998
How is the mood in French historiography nowadays? Is Annales School still dominant?

>>3307437

Hard to explain, especially since it's been a while since i had historiography lessons. I'd say that the general mood is still close to the annales, with some focus on events or characters that shaped history, but focusing on the way these events and characters are part of something bigger.

but new methods and new ways of studying (and, then, teaching) history tend to appear, especially since Patrick Boucheron got promoted to the College de France (the holy kingdom of french studies in all domains, from mathematics to music and history). Boucheron is not the typical annalist, for example he wrote an essay in which he imagines how a meeting of Leonardo Da Vinci and Machiavelli would have looked like and what they could have discussed of, even if there's no source describing such a meeting, not even saying that it happened. I also attended a lecture called "Image, propaganda, politics", fascinating really.

>>3307470
I see, thanks. Glad to see French medievalists are still going strong. Do you prefer Le Goff or Duby in that matter? I've only read Medieval Civilization from Le Goff, while Duby just seems more appealing to me and i can't get enough of him.

>>3307509
I'd take Duby over Le Goff by far, even if both are great historians