Compară metode

	Serial History	Microhistory
Domeniu	Historiography	Social History
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anul apariției	1971	1976
Autorul original	Francois Furet; Pierre Chaunu; Ernest Labrousse	Carlo Ginzburg; Giovanni Levi; Edoardo Grendi
Tip	quantitative descriptive method	qualitative interpretive method
Sursa seminală	Furet, F. (1971). Le quantitatif en histoire. In J. Le Goff & P. Nora (Eds.), Faire de l'histoire (Vol. 1, pp. 42-61). Gallimard. ISBN: 9782070287666	Ginzburg, C. (1980). The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 9780801843877
Denumiri alternative	Histoire Serielle, Serial History, Quantitative Serial Analysis, History of Series	Microstoria, Microhistory, Clue Paradigm, Evidential Paradigm
Înrudite	4	4
Rezumat	Serial history, histoire serielle, is the historical method that takes as its object not the unique event but the series: a long, homogeneous sequence of comparable facts, such as grain prices, baptisms, burials, marriages, notarial acts, or wages, recorded at regular intervals. Theorized above all by Francois Furet and practiced by Pierre Chaunu, Ernest Labrousse, and others in the orbit of the Annales school, it grew from Fernand Braudel's call to attend to the slow rhythms of history and from the conviction that the proper data of history are repeated, measurable facts rather than singular happenings. By constructing such series and analyzing their movements, trends, cycles, and fluctuations, the serial historian reconstructs the economic and demographic structures and conjunctures within which events occur. The decisive methodological requirement is homogeneity: the units must be defined and measured consistently across the whole span, so that change in the numbers reflects change in reality rather than in the recording.	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.