Summary
Interviews with French historians: Fernan Brodel, Georges Dibi, Jean-Pierre Vernan, Jacques Le Goff
Edited by: Dejan Aničić
I really haven't found the Mediterranean for years and years. I easily found Philip II, his relations with France... I could really write a romanticized life of Philip II. Then one day I went to Dubrovnik (Raguza), whose wonderful archives contain documents about maritime insurance, shipping (les nolis), trade letters, about cargo ships from the 16th century, so the whole Mediterranean. I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't been in Dubrovnik.
Fernand Braudel
When I was a student, the dominant humanistic discipline was geography, to which I owe a lot, and undoubtedly also to my special desire to study global phenomena. My teachers taught me to read the landscape, that is, an indistinct set into which many elements fit, some of which are material, while others belong to ritual, law, belief. (...) After geography, research, methods and results in the field of anthropology helped me fundamentally. Marcel Moss, Lévi-Strauss and Africanists in the field helped me to complete studies of material structures, rural economy; they encouraged me to study the family, marriage, sexuality, the system of thought in the Middle Ages.
Georges Duby
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