História erudita e popular: edição de documentos históricos na obra de Capistrano de Abreu / An erudite and popular history: edition of historical documents in the work of Capistrano de Abreu

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This study concerns the edition and publication of historical and/or historiographical texts by João Capistrano de Abreu (1853-1927), a practice that occurred during a moment of intense divulgation of that kind of text, in Europe and the Americas, by several historians and publications (specialized or not), in a movement that goes back at least to the first decades of the nineteenth century. Happening in many ways, this vast vulgarization of documents and historiographical works of different times concurred (as it was, most of the cases, its explicit purpose) to extend the access to many pieces previously restricted to archives and libraries of difficult consult, or to private collectors who could afford them. In this way, this process popularized, to the extent of the intellectual circle in each country, the possibility of study and writing of history. Such publications, however, could happen in different forms, giving its editor different degrees of prestige, and different attributions (from the mere compiler of texts to the historian). On the other hand, the way these documents were presented also contributed to mark the writing of history based on them. A critical edition, for instance, tried to provide a historical comprehension of the text, and introduced to the reader the constitutive signs of a certain historiography, such as the respect to the origin of a cited document, and the importance of the reading of original sources. In the case of Capistrano de Abreu, our research has been developed upon two perspectives: his position concerning different forms of text editions and publications (and, by that, to other forms of history-writing), and an analysis of his own editions.

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capistrano de abreu capistrano de abreu historiografia brasileira metodologia da história teoria da história historical documents documentos históricos methodology of history brazilian historiography theory of history

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