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darkelf105I just bought The Cheese and the Worms: A Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller. I need a break from Michel Foucalt's History of Sexuality as it is making my brain melt.
I bring it up because I really, really like micro-history as a genre. I had to read Mad For God for a history course a few semesters ago and I loved it. It was a really, really fascinating look at a particular man's life at a particular moment in history and it was enlightening as all get out.
So, I was just wondering in any of you, who are most assuredly more well-read than I am, know of any other examples of micro-history?
I am most interested in medievel/pre-modern titles, but any will do, as I just want to read a history book I can get through quickly.
I bring it up because I really, really like micro-history as a genre. I had to read Mad For God for a history course a few semesters ago and I loved it. It was a really, really fascinating look at a particular man's life at a particular moment in history and it was enlightening as all get out.
So, I was just wondering in any of you, who are most assuredly more well-read than I am, know of any other examples of micro-history?
I am most interested in medievel/pre-modern titles, but any will do, as I just want to read a history book I can get through quickly.