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This book aims to reconceive the field of knowledge of the “Gallic past” in French discourse of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by focusing on the monument as an object capable of underpinning insights into that past, the evolution of the concept, and the epistemic practices used to produce it. Through monuments, the book redirects our gaze toward the French provinces, where material and immaterial evidence of the Gallic past was “discovered” and transformed into epistemic objects. This perspective results in a “provincialization” of Paris as a site of knowledge production and sheds light on the crucial role of provincial scholarship, not only in the “invention” of the Gallic past but also in methodological and epistemological renewal. The result is a revision of recent historiography, which interpreted the narrative of an “autochthonous” pre-Roman, Gallic past as nation-building. This volume offers a pioneering contribution toward new directions in historical epistemology focused on the historicity of the “species” of evidence of each epoch.

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“The overarching interest of this remarkable monograph… raises fundamental questions of historiography: What kind of thing is it that historians cite as proof of historical truth? Just what is historical evidence?” Helmut Zedelmaier, LMU Munich, Germany “Lisa Regazzoni’s work is a great gain for the history of historiography.” Joëlle Weis, Trier University, Germany “I highly recommend this book to everyone who relishes the complexity of early modern scholarly landscapes.” Tobias Winnerling, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

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Lisa Regazzoni is a professor of the Theory of History and head of the Center for Theories in Historical Research at the University of Bielefeld. Her research interests focus on the theory and epistemology of historical materials, the history of historiography, and the history of knowledge in France.

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