Minor Knowledge and Microhistory

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon is Professor of Cultural History and Chair of the Center for Microhistorical Research at University of Iceland, Iceland. He has written 28 published books, including Archive, Slow Ideology and Egodocuments as Microhistorical Autobiography: Potential History (2021) and Emotional Experience and Microhistory (2020). He is also co-editor, with István M. Szijártó, of the Microhistories book series.

Introduction: Towards a New Model of Fragmented History Part I: Theory and Historiography 1. Historiography of Texts: From Literacy to Literacy Practices Within the Anglo-Saxon School of Thought 2. Scribal Culture in Transnational Perspective 3. Local and Global Perspectives as Platforms for Barefoot Historians: A Microhistorical Approach Part II: The Structure of Culture and Education 4. Setting the Scene Within the Hard Rock of Reality 5. Vernacular Literacy Between Two Campaigns 6. Emotions and Education Part III: Barefoot Historians and Their Everyday Life 7. Childhood, Local Culture and Educational Processes 8. A Quest for a Space - A No-Place: Scribal Communities as Institutional Structures 9. Solidarity with Substance: "History is No Respecter of Persons, It Depicts Both High and Low" 10. Postscript: Cornerstone for a Creative Space in the Nineteenth Century