Institute of Cultural History
Our research themes and orientations may be placed within the framework of various specialised historiographical disciplines (oral history, history of everyday life, history of family, history of childhood, history of ideas, and history of technology). On the other hand, these are inter-related within the new cultural history, which also serves as the basis from which the researchers draw a majority of methodological approaches and theoretical starting points, as well as the ambition to integrate individual specialised research results into comprehensive syntheses. Within the framework of the latter, the researchers also rely on the tradition of new historiography as well as on the reflections of established representatives of traditional cultural history.
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Our research themes and orientations may be placed within the framework of various specialised historiographical disciplines (oral history, history of everyday life, history of family, history of childhood, history of ideas, and history of technology). On the other hand, these are inter-related within the new cultural history, which also serves as the basis from which the researchers draw a majority of methodological approaches and theoretical starting points, as well as the ambition to integrate individual specialised research results into comprehensive syntheses. Within the framework of the latter, the researchers also rely on the tradition of new historiography as well as on the reflections of established representatives of traditional cultural history.
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