The Power of the Anecdotal: Enlightening Work Practices in Premodern Eurasia using Word and Image

IF 0.7 2区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI:10.1017/s002085902510059x

Danielle van den Heuvel

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Abstract

This article reflects on the pitfalls of the combined search for big and better data and argues for more attention to everyday experiences and incidental evidence. It proposes that including spatial aspects, perspectives from cultural, colonial, and women’s history, as well as widening the source base helps to remedy these challenges, and encourages historians to abandon their hesitations and embrace the uncertainties in doing so. It draws on the results of a research project at the University of Amsterdam that utilizes incidental evidence to enhance our understanding of gendered spatial patterns in premodern cities.

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轶事的力量：前现代欧亚大陆运用文字和图像的启发性工作实践

这篇文章反映了联合寻找大数据和更好数据的陷阱，并主张更多地关注日常经验和偶然证据。它提出，包括空间方面，从文化，殖民和妇女历史的角度来看，以及扩大来源基础有助于弥补这些挑战，并鼓励历史学家放弃他们的犹豫，接受这样做的不确定性。它借鉴了阿姆斯特丹大学的一个研究项目的结果，该项目利用偶然的证据来增强我们对前现代城市中性别空间模式的理解。

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期刊介绍： International Review of Social History, is one of the leading journals in its field. Truly global in its scope, it focuses on research in social and labour history from a comparative and transnational perspective, both in the modern and in the early modern period, and across periods. The journal combines quality, depth and originality of its articles with an open eye for theoretical innovation and new insights and methods from within its field and from contiguous disciplines. Besides research articles, it features surveys of new themes and subject fields, a suggestions and debates section, review essays and book reviews. It is esteemed for its annotated bibliography of social history titles, and also publishes an annual supplement of specially commissioned essays on a current theme.