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2012, No. 2 (3), Readings of the Past

Jacek Kowalewski, Paweł Żmudzki
Readings of the Past

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Keywords: historical source, narrative, historical anthropology, Robert Darnton, Jacek Banaszkiewicz.

Abstract:
The article is an introduction to the volume of RAH. The authors concentrate on the issue of language and representation and the controversy that arises from this: what does the historian, the past reality, or narratives about it really examine? The pretext is the dispute over the book by R. Darnton Great cat massacre...

About Author:
JACEK KOWALEWSKI - history methodologist, anthropologist of history, assistant professor at the Institute of History and International Relations at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn; PAWEŁ ŻMUDZKI - historian, medievalist, assistant professor at the Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw.

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