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3 unusual facts about Roger Chartier


Cultural history

Historians who might be grouped under this umbrella are Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, Patrice Higonnet, Lynn Hunt, Keith Baker, Joan Landes, Mona Ozouf and Sarah Maza.

History of mentalities

The term history of mentalities is a calque on the French histoire des mentalités (which might also be translated as 'history of attitudes', 'history of world-views'), a term referring to the manner of doing history (see historiography) associated with the tournant critique of the latter generation of the Annales School (in particular, the historian of books and reading Roger Chartier).

Roger Chartier, 'Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations', trans.


Annales School

The current leader is Roger Chartier, who is Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.


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