Un’esperienza storiografica costruita e vissuta lungo i percorsi che avevano aperto nuove prospettive agli studi sul Mezzogiorno moderno

Abstract

My historiographic experience roots in the 1960s, when Pasquale Villani oriented historical research on the rural world in the Kingdom of Naples and the struggles of the South Italian peasants to keep possession of the land. Contemporaneously,
Raffaele Ajello renewed the research on the history of Italian law, which he regarded as a product of social and political conflicts. The historic methodologies followed by the two great historians and the suggestions of the French historians of the École des hautes études and of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme influenced and oriented my researches, which focused on the social and institutional history of the South Italy.