What are the limits of a history of structures? Can we aspire to a total or global history? In a letter to Giovanni Tabacco from 1980, discovered by Gian Maria Varanini, Cinzio Violante expressed his dissatisfactions as a historian, in a period in which he renewed his methodological ideas, with new research and broad summary visions. The problems of Violante and Tabacco are still relevant nowadays, while their dialogue is the sign of a generation united by a way of being historians that became the intellectual and moral commitment of entire existences.
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Chapter Title
Storie di strutture: note intorno a una lettera di Violante a Tabacco
Authors
Giuseppe Petralia
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-423-6.14
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Publication Year
2021
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Book Title
«Fiere vicende dell’età di mezzo»
Book Subtitle
Studi per Gian Maria Varanini
Editors
Paola Guglielmotti, Isabella Lazzarini
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Number of Pages
344
Publication Year
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-423-6
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978-88-5518-422-9
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978-88-5518-423-6
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978-88-5518-425-0
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
Series E-ISSN
2704-6079