Lecture Kristian Raum January 28, 2020
Poster on the occasion of the lecture “Sensibility and Historiography: Lucien Febvre and the Two Marguerites” by Kristian Raum on January 28, 2020, at TU Dresden.
Is it possible to reconstruct the emotional life of past eras? Can a work as multifaceted and contradictory as that of Queen Marguerite de Navarre serve as a key to understanding the mindset of 16th-century people? This question preoccupied the French historian Lucien Febvre (1878–1956) and led him, together with Marc Bloch (1886–1944), to innovative research approaches that remain influential to this day.
In the lecture and the subsequent discussion, Febvre’s process of discovery was traced, and the role of literary texts in addressing historical questions was examined. Building on *Amour sacré, amour profane*, published in 1944 under the conditions of the occupation, the discussion also explored how Febvre’s historiographical texts are themselves constructed and—beyond the 16th century—become a mirror of their own time of origin and their readership.
As part of the seminar “Short Literary Forms in the Early Modern Period” by Prof. Dr. Roswitha Böhm.
WHEN? February 28, 2020, 1:00 p.m.
WHERE? SLK Faculty, Wiener Str. 48, 01219 Dresden, Room 0.01