Date: 2019
Type: Article
Historians and friends : reflections on some contemporary historians
History of European ideas, 2019, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 1156-1170
MOLHO, Antony, Historians and friends : reflections on some contemporary historians, History of European ideas, 2019, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 1156-1170
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This article is based on the text of a talk at the University of Athens in October 2018, in which I drew brief cameo portraits of five historians who inspired me and whose lives I admire: David Herlihy (1930-1991), Michael Baxandall (1933-2008), Marino Berengo (1928-2000), Hans Baron (1901-1988), and Marvin Becker (1922-2004). It is difficult to find strong common methodological or ideological ground shared by all five. Their priorities were different, their guiding lights in each case came from an internal dialogue between their own passions and the inspiration they received from teachers and readings, not by the methodological preferences that dominated the profession in their lives. What, in the end, left a deep imprint on me was their character. Their commitment was to ideas and to dialogue. National, religious, ideological, or methodological differences did not cloud their judgment of others, especially of young scholars. All five, growing up in the Fascist era, were portents of the more level tones of the liberal democracy that slowly, amid myriad obstacles, set root in the decades following 1945.
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Published online: 27 Aug 2019
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/66080
Full-text via DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2019.1656947
ISSN: 0191-6599; 1873-541X
Publisher: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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