Book, Evidence of History what Historians See[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. History is made of evidence. It is reported, written. Since Herodotus, making history has been a matter of looking and vision. See and say, write what happened and present it as it was seen, like a mirror: and this is where some of the problems that have constituted the historian's routine to this day are found. The numerous reformulations in historiography modern society have continued this work between the boundaries of the visible and the invisible, with the ambition of obtaining a real vision of things from a more comprehensive and deeper analytical perspective. And with the end of the 20th century, this intense evidence of history begins to be questioned. What role does the historian play from now on in the face of the “narrativist challenge”, the relevance of both the witness and the judge, at the exact moment in which memory and heritage become evidence? This and other questions are analyzed in this work written by François Hartog, one of the most important French historians today.