How an Historian Works: The Use of Mircohistory and Everyday Life. Interview with John Foot

  • Giuseppe Episcopo University of St Andrews
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6597
Keywords: John Foot, microhistory, everyday life, memory, witness

Abstract

The topic to which the monographic issue of the journal is dedicated is explored in a long interview with the British historian John Foot, author of several books on Italian history and culture, including: Milan since the Miracle. City, Culture and Identity (1991), Calcio. A History of Italian Football (2006), Italy’s Divided Memory (2010), The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care (2015) and The Archipelago. Italy since 1945 (2018). In the interview, the topic was explored paying particular attention to the role that everyday life, as a filed of inquiry, plays in the historical research and to the tools of the historian, with a major focus on: oral history, microhistory, witness, cultural memory.

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Author Biography

Giuseppe Episcopo, University of St Andrews

Giuseppe Episcopo, Associate Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, published a monograph on Stefano D’Arrigo and Thomas Pynchon, L’eredità della fine (2016), and on Carlo Emilio Gadda, Macchine d’espressisone (2018). Episcopo has also published on Brecht, Goyen, Primo Levi, Tozzi, Wilcock, and on radio drama in books and journals.

John Foot is Professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Bristol.

Published
2019-12-27
How to Cite
EpiscopoG. (2019). How an Historian Works: The Use of Mircohistory and Everyday Life. Interview with John Foot. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (3). https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6597
Issue
No 3 (2019): The forms and the days. Representations of everyday life in literature, audiovisual, visual and performing arts
Section
Monographic section I

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