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Patrick Boucheron
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“I try to make history relate to our lives. I try to make people realize that they do not have to choose between knowledge-teaching and emotion-sharing.”
When asked who I am, I cannot easily say “I am a historian.” But I certainly “do” a historian’s work, as Italians say (fatto lo storico). That suits me: I have always seen history as a practice, not an identity. I practice the most serious form of history: I was trained as a researcher and have always taught history. Why history? And why the Middle Ages in particular? Simply because I enjoy it and find it liberating.
But I also believe that academic knowledge should be politically independent, that the specificity of professional historians’ system of truth should be upheld. The discipline of history gives rise to knowledge that is neither opinion nor fiction. Yet I also know that to be a proper historian, you should not content yourself with simply being one. That is why I try to make history inviting to all that extends beyond it—literature, cinema, painting, and theater—as I look for new forms of writing that are simultaneously conceptually demanding and narratively stimulating. I like to emphasize that history is a way of thinking that should welcome unexpected insights, with a healthy concern for breaks in continuity. By looking for new experiences, I do not seek to popularize knowledge already amassed or broaden public interest in history. Instead, I try to make history relate to our lives. I try to make people realize that they do not have to choose between knowledge-teaching and emotion-sharing.
Patrick Boucheron is a professor and chair of the History of Powers in Western Europe from the 7th to the 16th at Collège de France. He specializes in the Middles Ages, particularly in Italy. His work also concerns the writing of history and changes in the discipline. It At the same time, Patrick Boucheron was engaged in a reflection on the writing and epistemology of history, attempting to re-articulate literature and the social sciences through a number of collective projects (notably on the notion of public space and intellectual violence), as well as personal experiments. In Faire profession d'historien (Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010, republished 2016 and 2020), he describes how these two activities, which had hitherto run in parallel, are reconciled in Léonard et Machiavel (Verdier, 2008, republished 2013), as well as in L'histoire du monde au siècle (Fayard, 2009, republished 2013). Through the decompartmentalization of viewpoints and the disorientation of certainties proposed by a certain way of writing world history (notably in Histoire mondiale de la France, Le Seuil, 2017), it is indeed the practice of a restless history that is sought here, as L'entretemps attempts to explain . Conversations sur l'histoire (Verdier, 2012) but also, in another way, Conjurer la peur. Siena 1338. Essai sur la force politique des images (Seuil, 2013, reed. 2015). One of his latest books, La Trace et l'aura.Vies posthumes d'Ambroise de Milan ( siècles) (Seuil, 2019), completing a long investigation that had been outlined during his first year of lectures at the Collège de France, is part of this research perspective, pursuing in the long term a genealogy of the system of powers. A member of the editorial board of L'Histoire magazine since 1999, the scientific council of the Rendez-vous de l'Histoire de Blois and the scientific council of the Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem, Marseille) since 2013, Patrick Boucheron was appointed chairman of the scientific committee in charge of redesigning the permanent gallery of the Musée national d'histoire de l'immigration in 2017. He has been a regular participant at t French historian (born 1965) Patrick Boucheron (born 28 October 1965) is a French historian. He previously taught medieval history at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris. He is a professor of history at the Collège de France. He is the author of 12 books and or the editor of 5 books. His 2017 book, Histoire mondiale de la France (Global History of France), compiled work by 122 historians and became an unexpected bestseller, with more than 110 000 copies sold. From 2017 to 2020, he hosted Quand l'histoire fait dates, a TV program of 22 episodes which explored different important dates in world history. Patrick Boucheron was born in 1965 in Paris. Boucheron was educated at the Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés and the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. He graduated from the École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines (ENS) in Saint-Cloud and earned the agrégation in history in 1988. He earned a PhD in history from the University of Paris in 1994. His thesis supervisor was Pierre Toubert. Boucheron was an assistant professor in medieval history at his alma mater, the ENS, from 1994 to 1999. He was associate professor of history at the University of Paris from 1999 to 2012, and full professor from 2012 to 2016. He has been a professor of history at the Collège de France since 2016. Boucheron has served on the editorial board of L'Histoire since 1999. He was also a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2004 to 2009. He has been the chairman of the advisory board of the École française de Rome since 2005. He is on the editorial board of the L'Univers Historique collection of the Éditions du Seuil, a Frenc Organized chronologically, A History of the World in 500 Maps tells a clear, linear story, bringing together themes as diverse as religion, capitalism, warfare, geopolitics, popular culture and climate change. Meticulously rendered maps chart the sequence of broad historical trends, from the dispersal of our species across the globe to the colonizing efforts of imperial European powers in the 18th century, as well as exploring moments of particular significance in rich detail. • Visualizes 7 million years of human history.
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A History of the World in 500 Maps
• Analyses cities and kingdoms as well as countries and continents.
• Features major technical developments, from the invention of farming in the Fertile Crescent to the Industrial Revolution.
• Charts the spread of major global religions, including Christianity and Islam.
• Explores the increasing interconnectivity of our world through exploration and trade.
• Investigates warfare and battles from across the ages, from Alexander the Great’s conquests to the D-Day offensive.