Casa Robino

The school has been highly influential in setting the agenda for historiography in France and numerous other countries, especially regarding use of social scientific methods into history, emphasis on social rather than political or diplomatic themes, and for being fairly acceptant of Marxist historiography. // The fourth generation of Annales historians, led by Roger Chartier, clearly distanced itself from the mentalities approach, which has fallen into disuse in France, replaced by the cultural and linguistic turn which emphasizes analysis of the social history of cultural practices. // Influence spread out from Paris but did not come in. An attempt to require an Annales-written textbook for French schools was rejected by the government. By 1980 postmodernist sensibilities undercut confidence in overarching metanarratives. The Annales School kept its infrastructure, but lost its mentalités