Whether we like it or not, History as practised nowadays is a tower built upon textuality, upon the implicit evidentiality striped within and through texts. Even archaeology (of all but the obscenely distant past) and Art History rely heavily on texts for their reconstructions. Alternative, explicitly visual approaches to history have lost the battle to … Read More →

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