ABSTRACT
Cultural history, because it is by its very essence the interface between reality and its perception, particularly in that it analyzes the process of how reality is perceived, finds itself either directly or indirectly at the heart of any historic approach: it helps to better ascertain the participants involved in a situation, who are studied both as acting and as thinking subjects. In this way, it forms a sort of perspective, enriching the vision of the historical phenomena studied, even when they are not directly linked to cultural history. If there is one field where this stimulation of the approach is particularly sensitive, it is that of political history: its domain has been enriched by the perspective of cultural history; this is evidenced by the consecration of the area of political history described as “the cultural history of politics”. As long as, of course, we point out that it is not an exclusive relationship, and as long as the social aspect is not sacrificed-in the sense underestimated or even ignored-at the altar of such a union.
