ABSTRACT
What is microhistory? As indicated in this book, the question can be answered in many different ways. But there are a number of factors that are central to a discussion of microhistory, which are generally recognized as being indispensible on the agenda of this type of history. The following matters have been touched on in this book in one form or another: (1) the role of narrative; (2) synthesis in history; (3) history and fiction; (4) historical subjectivity; (5) normal exceptions; (6) the reduction of the scale of observation; (7) the individual and the past; (8) ethnological and anthropological methodology; (9) microhistory and relativism; (10) contextualization. I shall briefly discuss some of them here in the final chapter, with the intention of summing up the principal features of microhistory as they have been addressed in the book as a whole.
