The Episteme of the Gallic Past

French Historical Research in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

von Lisa Regazzoni

388 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book aims to reconceive the field of knowledge of the "Gallic past" in French discourse of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by focusing on the monument as an object capable of underpinning insights into that past, the evolution of the concept, and the epistemic practices used to produce it.Through monuments, the book redirects our gaze toward the French provinces, where material and immaterial evidence of the Gallic past was "discovered" and transformed into epistemic objects. This perspective results in a "provincialization" of Paris as a site of knowledge production and sheds light on the crucial role of provincial scholarship, not only in the "invention" of the Gallic past but also in methodological and epistemological renewal. The result is a revision of recent historiography, which interpreted the narrative of an "autochthonous" pre-Roman, Gallic past as nation-building.This volume offers a pioneering contribution toward new directions in historical epistemology focused on the historicity of the "species" of evidence of each epoch.

• Reihe: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Theorie und Methoden
• ISBN: 9781032408798
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.07.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd