A History of Private Life: Passions of the RenaissanceEdited by Roger ChartierBelknap/Harvard, 645 pages, $39.50This huge, opulent book, third in an acclaimed series by members of the annales ...

The Annales approach works better for the millennia Cunliffe examines, in which very, very few individuals can even be identified, than for the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the periods ...

He was a leading member of the Annales movement, which rejected traditional historiography, with its emphasis on great events (the War for Independence, the Bolshevik Revolution), ideologies ...

The discussion on The Annales School -- its establishment, evolution and the core themes it epitomised -- with the young colleagues at the History Department of GC University Lahore, proved to be ...

Longue Durée, or long term, is an approach to history writing pioneered by historians of the Annales school such as Fernand Braudel. It focusses on events that occur nearly imperceptibly over a ...