Good day.
To make sure I am on the right path, would anyone care to chime in on what they consider to be the major historiographic issues associated with Romantic era historical scholarship in western Europe.
So far I have been focusing on Germany and Denmark - but, I would appreciate any and all input, suggestions, direction etc. that you can provide as regionality is not an issue.
Thanks and keep well.
Kat
Search in Data Bases, in reviews, search in the specialized magazines for articles, related with the romantic era, the state of the art.
HI KATE,
you can consider to see my book on European Romanticism. I have studied with Prof. Paul Ginsborg and A.M. Banti, who wrote very important articles and book on this issue. See also Isahia Berlin on Romanticism.
Bye, G.
Romanticism. Alternative Titles: Romantic Style, Romantic movement. Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
Enlightenment · Neoclassical architecture · Classicism
I also attended Norwich for a year, under Professor John Broom and my contact is still Tara Salt...:) JiM Sullivan [email protected]
I can suggest for the British area
Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period - Sarah Houghton-Walkerhttp://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198719472.001.0001/acprof-9780198719472
In relation with Germany you could see too (although the period is not exactly the same that you are considering )
Gypsies in Germany and Italy, 1861-1914 - Lives Outside the Law | J ...
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137401717
For sure the Italian anthropologue Leonardo Piasere wrote some contributions on this subiect
http://www.dsu.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=2521&lang=it#tab-pubblicazioni
Finally concerning the French area
https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-tsiganes-2011-3-page-26.htm
https://www.cairn.info/revue-le-temps-des-medias-2010-1-page-12.htm
Hi. Have a look at Michael Bentley's book, Modern Historiography which includes a chapter on Romanticism.
The Theory of Dual Morality proposes that the modern Romantic Era is the common name for the general leftward movement in western culture.
The scientific revolution led directly to the industrial revolution (applied science) which was followed by an enormous uptick in production and trade between 1500-1800.
This was followed by a general democratization of western societies as every democracy from Athens & Rome to London and New York is fundamentally the political veneer of a commercial society.
As production and trade dominate society, so too do the concerns and habits of the producers and traders, i.e. the pre-occupations of the common man-in-the-street.
The interests of the average person are fundamentally "romantic" that is, they are personal and involve rather mundane and day-to-day routines.
The beer he drinks and the songs he sings.
Historians focus on the most significant events ... invariably these are not the beers and the songs, bit the wars, presidents, and major inventions of an era.
In romantic periods historians are looking to record things that often matter LEAST to the people.
The historical development of computers, cameras, video recording devices, anti-biotics, pain killers, and pornography might mark the real developments and primary concerns of real people in our century. But these stories seem too mundane to record and retell for posterity.
In 150 years students of history might hear the name Donald Trump but they are unlikely to know McDonald's and Burger King. The latter two being much more significant in the lives of the people of our era.
If the fundamental question of history is "WHAT SHOULD WE REMEMBER AND WHY SHOULD WE REMEMBER IT?"
Will historians detail the development of GPS navigation and Walmart or will they still want to focus on Middle-East peace talks and the rise of China as a global super-power?
The former detail the developments that really matter to us and our culture, the latter is often what matters most to historians.
Probably revolutionist movements, which were extremely popular during the Romanticism
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