Burke, Peter: What is Cultural History

Diverse temaer/sammendrag fra Burke sin bok.

“Classic phase”
1800-1950

The “great tradition”

Historians “painting the portrait of an age”

History of the “classics”

Developed in German-speaking world before unification

F.R. Leavis ? – great tradition

Jacob Burckhardt 1860 Swiss historian

Johan Huizinga 1919 Dutch historian

Portrait of an Age G.M. Young 1936

“Social history of art”
1930’s -->

Max Weber 1904 German sociologist

Norbert Elias 1939 German sociologist

(Freud 1930)

Aby Warburg German barber’s son s.12

Warburg Institute England THE GREAT DIASPORA

Ernst Cassiver Philosopher -->USA

Fritz Saxl Art historian -->England

Edgar Wind Art historian -->England

Erwin Panofsky Art historian -->USA

Ernst Kantotavicz-->USA

England – Frances Yates

USA – s.14

History of popular culture
1960’s -->

-->1990’s – Anthropology

“New cultural history”
NCH

Art, Science and “ordinary” historians  “New historicism” literary

1970’s Microhistory

CH+Anthropology

1970’s-80’s

NCH – end 1980’s

Four theorists whose work has been particulary important for practitioners of NCH – s.51

Mikhail Bakhtin Social theorist

Norbert Elias Social theorist

Michel Foucault Language and literature theorist

Pierre Bourdieu Language and literature theorist

Also visual culture

Society/culture-boundaries dissolving