Perdus dans l’archive:Foucault, l’historien et l’écrivain

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Published: Mar 22, 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.158
Henriette-Rika Benveniste
University of Thessaly
Abstract
Nous, historiens du XXIe siècle, nous connaissons bien l’archive! Nous nous considérons comme vaccinés contre les illusions romantiques du jeune Michelet qui, descendant aux «catacombes manuscrites, dans cette admirable nécropole des monuments nationaux», croyait apercevoir les morts ressuscités; «Ces papiers ne sont pas des papiers mais des vies d’hommes, de provinces, des peuples», écrivait-il. Bien que le contact avec l’archive constitue toujours une étape, un rite de passage même, dans la construction de notre identité professionnelle, nous n’adhérons pas au fétichisme néo-positiviste et réducteur de ceux qui voudraient opposer à la réflexion théorique ou critique l’archive comme unique dépositaire de vérité et d’authenticité.
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Author Biography
Henriette-Rika Benveniste, University of Thessaly
Henriette-Rika Benveniste was born in Salonica in 1959. She studied History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed her doctoral studies in Medieval History at the Université de Sorbonne (Paris I, Panthéon). She has taught at the Ionian University and the University of the Aegean and she is now a Professor of European Medieval History at the University of Thessaly. She has published several articles on the judicial archives, on the relations between Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages and on the Historiography of the Holocaust. Her recent books are Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages (Athens 2000) and From the Barbarians to the Moderns. Social History and Historiography of the Middle Ages (Athens 2007). Her research interests include Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages and Jewish History and Historiography.
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