Two talks on psycho-history by PETER BURKE
Lecturer in History and Director of Studies in the History of Ideas, University of Sussex.
2: Chairs, Mirrors, and Autobiographies
When did we first begin to be aware of psychological anachronism? Were sixteenth - century Frenchmen less visualist than twentieth-century ones? How significant is the Jesuit encouragement of competition in schools? Is it important when courtiers decide 1* is bad manners to scratch in public? Questions like these are the concern of our potential psychological history.