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5. CONTROVERSIAL CHRONOLOGIES: THE TEMPORAL DEMARCATION OF HISTORIC EVENTS
History and Theory ( IF 0.718 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 , DOI: 10.1111/hith.12197 ANNA KARLA 1
History and Theory ( IF 0.718 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 , DOI: 10.1111/hith.12197 ANNA KARLA 1
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In everyday language and in historiography, influential events are commonly described as “historic” but are rarely defined from a theoretical standpoint. Discussing temporal demarcations of events by scholars—in particular William H. Sewell Jr.'s foundational study of the Storming of the Bastille—this article considers the contemporary urge to define the event's temporal boundaries to better evaluate the alleged importance of certain events in history. Rather than perpetuating the constructivist idea that any event possesses a fundamentally interpretable character, it crafts a theoretical definition of the historic event that distinguishes between its flexible fringes and its rather stable core. Fixing an event as an anchor point on the timeline of history is thus presented as a process that provokes political, social, and—last but not least—financial controversies. As this article shows with examples from the history of revolutions reaching from the late eighteenth century to the early twenty‐first century, such epoch‐making events are essentially shaped by their flexible beginning and ending points. Although the cores of these events remain strikingly stable, their temporal fringes become objects of highly controversial discussions.
中文翻译:
5.有争议的年代学:历史事件的时间划分
在日常语言和史学中,有影响力的事件通常被描述为“历史性的”,但从理论的角度很少定义。讨论学者对事件的时间划分,特别是小威廉·H·塞厄尔(William H. Sewell Jr.)的《巴士底狱风暴》的基础研究,本文考虑了当代定义事件时间边界的冲动,以更好地评估历史上某些事件的重要性。它没有使任何事件都具有从根本上可以解释的特征的建构主义观点永久存在,而是对历史事件进行了理论上的定义,以区分其柔性边缘和相当稳定的核心。因此,将事件固定为历史时间轴上的锚点,可以说是激发政治,社会,最后(但并非最不重要)财务争议。正如本文以十八世纪末至二十一世纪初的革命历史中的例子所示,此类划时代的事件本质上是由其灵活的起点和终点决定的。尽管这些事件的核心保持了惊人的稳定,但它们的时间边缘却成为了备受争议的讨论的对象。
更新日期:2021-03-08
中文翻译:
5.有争议的年代学:历史事件的时间划分
在日常语言和史学中,有影响力的事件通常被描述为“历史性的”,但从理论的角度很少定义。讨论学者对事件的时间划分,特别是小威廉·H·塞厄尔(William H. Sewell Jr.)的《巴士底狱风暴》的基础研究,本文考虑了当代定义事件时间边界的冲动,以更好地评估历史上某些事件的重要性。它没有使任何事件都具有从根本上可以解释的特征的建构主义观点永久存在,而是对历史事件进行了理论上的定义,以区分其柔性边缘和相当稳定的核心。因此,将事件固定为历史时间轴上的锚点,可以说是激发政治,社会,最后(但并非最不重要)财务争议。正如本文以十八世纪末至二十一世纪初的革命历史中的例子所示,此类划时代的事件本质上是由其灵活的起点和终点决定的。尽管这些事件的核心保持了惊人的稳定,但它们的时间边缘却成为了备受争议的讨论的对象。