Temporality, Uncertainty and Historiography

“Uncertainty” is one of the words that, in many ways, help qualify current historiography. The radical renewal of their topics since the 1980s has led historians to think about temporalities, initially new to them, dominated by the uncertain and the unpredictable. They have also progressively given a prominent place to uncertainty as a major component of historical knowledge, which prompted them to change not only the construction of their objects of study, but the objects themselves.