Módszerek összehasonlítása

	Microhistory	Longue Duree Analysis
Tudományterület	Social History	Historiography
Módszercsalád	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Keletkezés éve	1976	1958
Megalkotó	Carlo Ginzburg; Giovanni Levi; Edoardo Grendi	Fernand Braudel
Típus	qualitative interpretive method	analytical-framework
Alapmű	Ginzburg, C. (1980). The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 9780801843877	Braudel, F. (1958). Histoire et sciences sociales: La longue duree. Annales. Economies, Societes, Civilisations, 13(4), 725-753.
Alternatív nevek	Microstoria, Microhistory, Clue Paradigm, Evidential Paradigm	Annales structural history, History of deep structures, Geohistorical longue duree, Braudelian time-scale analysis
Kapcsolódó	4	3
Összefoglaló	Microhistory is the intensive study of a small, well-documented unit, a single person, family, village, or event, undertaken to illuminate the larger structures, beliefs, and contradictions of a society. Emerging in Italy in the 1970s around Carlo Ginzburg, Giovanni Levi, and the journal Quaderni Storici, it was a reaction against the impersonal serial and quantitative history of the Annales school, which microhistorians felt had lost sight of real people and the texture of lived experience. By drastically reducing the scale of observation, the microhistorian can read sources with a density impossible at the macro level, attending to anomalies and apparently trivial details. Ginzburg theorized this as an evidential or clue paradigm, akin to the methods of the detective, the physician, and the connoisseur, in which small, overlooked signs disclose a hidden reality. The famous exemplar is Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms (1976), which reconstructs the cosmology of a sixteenth-century miller from his inquisition records.	Longue duree analysis is the signature method of Fernand Braudel and the Annales school, organizing historical inquiry around the deep, slow-moving structures that shape human possibility across centuries rather than the rapid succession of political events. Braudel famously distinguished three temporalities: the near-immobile time of geography and environment (the longue duree), the medium-rhythm time of economic and social cycles (the conjoncture), and the fast, deceptive time of events (l'histoire evenementielle). The longue duree foregrounds mountains, seas, climate, trade routes, demographic regimes, and collective mentalities as the durable scaffolding within which short-term action unfolds. By privileging structures that change so slowly they appear almost static, the method reorients explanation away from kings and battles toward the material and mental constraints that condition entire civilizations. It demands sources and chronologies measured in centuries, treating the present as a thin film atop vast geological and cultural sediment.