„Antropologizovaná“ historie: Korunovace Madon v 18.století
‘Anthropologized’ history: the Madonna coronations of the 18th century

Author(s): Tomáš Malý
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Methodology and research technology, 18th Century
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: history; methodology; 18th century; anthropologized history;
Summary/Abstract: In his book In Defence of History from 1997, Richard J. Evans looked at the relationship between historical reality and the way in which historians write about it – the ‘discourse on history’. In his dispute with postmodern ideas – i.e. linguistic and literary-critical perspectives – he stated that these phenomena could not be combined; i.e. the discourse does not in itself shape the past: “the most that it is possible to argue is that it constructs our attempts to represent it”. Without any doubt historical discourse primarily shapes our ideas about the past and our understanding of the past in relation to the world today. And in an era of deep social and scientific scepticism, this has also understandably led to doubts concerning the certainty of an objective knowledge of the past, and with it a discussion ranging between two extreme positions – the belief on the one hand that ‘accurate’ work with historical sources guarantees a problem free, objective understanding of the past, while on the other is the assertion that history is conceivable solely as texts produced by historians.

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