French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance
For the ship, see French cruiser Jules Michelet.
Jules Michelet
Portrait by Thomas Couture, c. 1865
Born
(1798-08-21)21 August 1798
Paris, France
Died
9 February 1874(1874-02-09) (aged 75)
Hyères, France
Alma mater
University of Paris
Occupations
Historian
writer
philosopher
teacher
Spouses
Pauline Rousseau (m. 1824–1839)
Athénaïs Michelet (m. 1849 to his death)
Era
Modern philosophy
19th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
French philosophy
School
Anti-clericalism Freethought Republicanism
Main interests
French history
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Jules Michelet (French:[ʒylmiʃlɛ]; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874)[3] was a French historian and writer. He is best known for his multivolume work Histoire de France (History of France),[4] which traces the history of France from the earliest times to the French Revolution. He is considered one of the founders of modern historiography. Michelet was influenced by Giambattista Vico. He admired Vico's emphasis on the role of people and their customs in shaping history, which was a major departure from the emphasis on political and military leaders.[5] Michelet also drew inspiration from Vico's concept of the "corsi e ricorsi", or the cyclical nature of history, in which societies rise and fall in a recurring pattern.
In Histoire de France he coined the term Renaissance (meaning "rebirth" in French) as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a break from the Middle Ages, creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world. (The term "rebirth" and its association with the Renaissance can be traced to a work published in 1550 by the Italian art historian Giorgio Vasari. Vasari used the term to describe the advent of a new manner of painting that began with the work of Giotto, as the "rebirth (rinascita) of the arts" Michelet thereby became the first historian to use and define the French translation of the term, Renaissance,[6] to identify the period in Europe's cultural history that followed the Middle Ages.[7]
Historian François Furet wrote that Michelet's Histoire de France remains "the cornerstone of all revolutionary historiography and is also a literary monument."[8]
^Van der Veen, Wouter. "From Michelet to Gauguin: Van Gogh's literary mind". Van Gogh Museum Journal. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
^De Bruijn, Jan (2004). Groen van Prinsterer in Europese context. Hilversum: Verloren. p. 12.
^Cite error: The named reference EB1911 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Michelet, Jules. History of France, trans. G. H. Smith (New York: D. Appleton, 1847)
^Wilson, Edmund (1940). To the Finland Station: A study in the writing and acting of History.
^Murray, P. and Murray, L. (1963) The Art of the Renaissance. London: Thames & Hudson (World of Art), p. 9. ISBN 978-0-500-20008-7
^Brotton, Jerry (2002). The Renaissance Bazaar. Oxford University Press. pp. 21–22.
^François Furet, Revolutionary France 1770–1880 (1992), p. 571
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century. In his main work Histoire de France (1855), French historian JulesMichelet (1798–1874) coined the term Renaissance (meaning "rebirth" in French)...
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rituals with demons, such as the one shown in this illustration by Martin van Maële in the 1911 edition of Satanism and Witchcraft by JulesMichelet....
politiques (section d'Histoire) of the Institut de France in 1874 after JulesMichelet. He died in Paris. His son was the historian Berthold Zeller (1848–1899)...
following historians who had purported the Witch-Cult's existence, such as JulesMichelet and Margaret Murray. For Wiccans, the Horned God is "the personification...
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