Europe
‘Eyewitnessing’? History and Visual Sources
By (July 2009)
Section: Europe
Subjects: Linguistics, History Writing, Cultural History, Study of History, History.
Places: Europe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Key Topics: historians, arts and architecture, interdisciplinary, language.
Abstract
If history has experienced a ‘pictorial’ or visual turn in the past two decades, how widespread is this shift and how deep does it run? What is the relationship of the discipline of history to visual sources? This article assesses the current state of the field by investigating Peter Burke’s book Eyewitnessing. It considers not just the original edition but also its various translations to illuminate aspects of visual sources and the historian’s approach to them.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00622.x
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