Strategies for understanding the past

In ideas about the nature of historical knowledge in recent decades, significant changes have occurred, one of which was the problematization of the availability of the past for the historian. Today, it becomes increasingly obvious that the paintings created by them are largely due to its own position in relation to the subject of study and the research strategies that he voluntarily or involuntarily uses. Moreover, in both cases, these positions and strategies are caused by specific social, political and cultural contexts.
The idea of ​​this problem develops in various plots included in the book of Professor of the Higher School of Economics of Yuri Zaretsky. Most of them relate to the cultural history of the European Middle Ages and early new time and is associated with the theme of the history of the individual. The book also considers the most important concepts of historical knowledge ("Document", "source", "Text", "feudalism", "Memory", "National Identity"), socio-political conditions for the formation of Soviet historians, the latest disputes of Anglo-American historians about The nature of history, differences in the context of the production of historical knowledge in modern Russian and foreign universities