![]() ![]() ![]() According to Hutton, the originality of Ariès's work and the power of his appeal derived from the way he drew together the two strands of his own intellectual life: his enduring ties to the old cultural order valued by the right-wing Action Française, and a newfound appreciation for the methodology of the leftist Annales school of historians. ![]() Hutton explores the relationship between Ariès's life and thought and evaluates his contribution to modern historiography, in France and abroad. He was both a political reactionary and a path-breaking scholar, a sectarian royalist who supported the Vichy regime and a founder of the new cultural history-popularly known as l'histoire des mentalités-that developed in the decades following World War II. The author of Centuries of Childhood and other landmark historical works, Philippe Ariès (1914–1984) was a singular figure in French intellectual life. ![]()
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