HIST 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fetishism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 400
• Professor: Howard Adelman

Document Summary

For the next two weeks we will be discussing what history is, with the following weeks being about the relation about history and memory. It needs something in it to hold it up. What does that say about facts: example of caesar crossing the rubicon. Two kinds of historical facts: fact about the past and historical facts. Ahistorical facts can become historical facts eventually put it needs to be put to the test and eventually become a historical fact or narrative. A historian would ask; why did this gingerbread maker get beat up? (nature of the event) and why did this occur to the man? (why did this happen?) Where is it: river in italy, traditionally the border between italy proper and the empire, literary history vs. what actually happened. It appears to be a real river, but it quite small.