La aristocracia altomedieval: legados historiográficos y tendencias de investigación by Mariel Pérez

“…This review will show that although the historiographical tradition inaugurated by Marc Bloch and Georges Duby actually inherited the topics and schemes from their predecessors –which led them to go deeply into the study of classical questions such as the transformations of its family structures–, in the last decades a number of new problems on medieval aristocracy emerged, as well as new frameworks of interpretation and methodological tools that are renewing and revitalizing these studies.…”
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Les Rois mages. Iconographie et art monumental dans l’espace féodal (xe-xiie siècle) by Mathieu Beaud

“…The aim is to define where the newly defined Three Kings stand in the intricate network of “ties between man and man” theorized by Marc Bloch. A phenomenological analysis reveals the features of the characters in the “feudal imaginary”, fully invested with their royal function and its aura, and finding their place in a mental system whose mode of functioning can be unveiled thanks to the study of great iconographic sets. …”
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Clavijero y la literalidad histórica del futuro by Javier Vargas de Luna

“…A la luz de la teoría de Marc Bloch sobre la "plasticidad de la historia", el presente estudio propone que la Historia antigua de México, de Francisco Javier Clavijero, pretende ejercitar al lector en los cambios de guardia temporales y heredarle, junto a los avatares del mundo mexica, el hábito intelectual para sospechar formas distintas de construir cronologías. …”
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O papel do sujeito face à imagem. Interpretações estruturo-fenomenológicas: o caso de estudo das Pinturas murais de São Francisco de Bragança by Inês Afonso Lopes

“…The historiography and its role concerning the art and images, throughout the last decades are adopting as the main way of investigation the so called historical anthropology, as heritage of the works from writers like Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel e Jacques Le Goff. Notwithstanding, that historic anthropology has been targeted from several criticisms, owing the fact that often it is only focused on the structural anthropology rather than watching the role of its agents/actors. …”
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Sobre las metáforas de los fundadores de AnnalesUna reflexión sobre su impacto en las teorías de la historia by John Edison Mazo Lopera, Juan Felipe Gutiérrez Florez, Adolfo Hernández Rodríguez

“…Este artículo examina las metáforas sobre la historia que utilizaron los fundadores de la escuela de Annales, Marc Bloch (1886-1944) y Lucien Febvre (1878-1956). …”
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