The Exile and His Kingdom: The Reception of Braudel’s Mediterranean

The reception of Fernand Braudel's La Mediterranee et le monde mediterraneen a l'epoque de Philippe II would appear to be simple and straightforward in the English-speaking world. Here, Marino has linked space and time in Braudel's material world to their appearance between memory and...

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Published in:The Journal of modern history 2004-09, Vol.76 (3), p.622-652
Main Author: Marino, John A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Braudel, Fernand
Historians
Historiography
History
Memory
Philip II [King]
Research trends
Review articles
Southern Europe
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Summary:The reception of Fernand Braudel's La Mediterranee et le monde mediterraneen a l'epoque de Philippe II would appear to be simple and straightforward in the English-speaking world. Here, Marino has linked space and time in Braudel's material world to their appearance between memory and history, because such realms, or in Renaissance terms, theaters of memory bring one to the central problem of Braudel's possibilism--that is, individual choice and freedom, what contemporaries considered to be the Renaissance predicament of fortuna (determinism) versus virtu (human action). This relationship between structure and event is the point of departure for both praise and blame of Braudel, for he is either praised for his love of the concrete or condemned for his obsession with non-incremental details.
ISSN:0022-2801
1537-5358
DOI:10.1086/425442