History

As History is written: Foucault revolutionizes history Flvio Fagundes de Paula, Franciele Sabrina Tiecher Paul Veyne was born in, 13 of June of 1930 is an archaeologist and French historian, specialist in history of the antiquity Roman. It wrote diverse workmanships of utmost importance, but it was in as if it writes History; Foucault revolutionizes history, a classic, and a landmark for the life of the author. In its book, Paul Veyne treats, in first place, of the object of history, and inquires what it would be History? It affirms that it is not a science and that she will never be. As if it writes history is an essential book for the historians, a time, that demonstrates for such, which is the function of history and which its importance in the explanation of the facts. The men feel the necessity to know, to try to explain the past and its curiosity he is that he makes history, and for Veyne ' ' History is a narrative of eventos' ' (p.11). At diverse moments of its book, it and speaks of interesting History, and it compares with the romance, due both to use of narration, even so leaves well clearly that romance and History if distinguish, therefore for History ' ' the beauty does not interest it, and yes the truth (pg.15).

Had to the different forms of if interpreting the facts it is that the document use becomes necessary, a historian does not have to only repeat the facts. According to Veyne, the historian has in its hands the power of chooses, to give to the certain facts bigger importance. From there the care that a good historian must have in not inducing the reader. The author exalta the importance of the use of documents, and it defines ' ' as all event that left, until us, a mark material' '.