Braudel is the most famous of the historians from this school. His book “The Structures Of Everyday Life” established historiography on the basis of what ordinary people did in their ordinary lives: what they ate, what they wore, how they worked. And Braudel was building upon ideas already established by the founders of the Annales school. But this enormously influential group of historians were a constant source of inspiration to Christopher Hill, and I think shaped the way he wrote The World Turned Upside Down.
I recommend both Hill and Braudel, both pillars of my intellectual life.
lkrubner•8mo ago
https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-Capitalism-15th-18th-Cen...
The Annales journal was established in 1929 and shaped the context of everything that Christopher Hill did:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales_school
Braudel is the most famous of the historians from this school. His book “The Structures Of Everyday Life” established historiography on the basis of what ordinary people did in their ordinary lives: what they ate, what they wore, how they worked. And Braudel was building upon ideas already established by the founders of the Annales school. But this enormously influential group of historians were a constant source of inspiration to Christopher Hill, and I think shaped the way he wrote The World Turned Upside Down.
I recommend both Hill and Braudel, both pillars of my intellectual life.