---
title: "1 Ludmilla Jordanova Quotes"
description: "Ludmilla Jane Jordanova is a British historian and academic. She is Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of History at Durham University."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db5/ludmilla-jordanova-168734_discipline_history-is-inherently-an-eclectic-discip_109147.jpg"
---

# Ludmilla Jordanova

 **1** quotes in **3** categories

Rate this collection:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★   No ratings yet

Ludmilla Jane Jordanova is a British historian and academic. She is Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of History at Durham University.

##  Quotes by Ludmilla Jordanova

> [“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludmilla-jordanova/history-is-inherently-an-eclectic-discipline-and-the-skills-it/)

[Ludmilla Jordanova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludmilla-jordanova/)

[Discipline](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipline/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db5/ludmilla-jordanova-168734_discipline_history-is-inherently-an-eclectic-discip_109147.jpg)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludmilla-jordanova/#itemlist",
            "name": "Ludmilla Jordanova Quotes",
            "numberOfItems": 1,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes treated as a dirty word. At the very least it sounds untidy - just so: if historians treat the past in too tidy a manner they lose a great deal...It is precisely the ability to embrace complexities while making sense of them, and to think flexibly about diverse phenomena at distinct analytical levels, that characterises historians' purchase on the past.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Ludmilla Jordanova"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludmilla-jordanova/history-is-inherently-an-eclectic-discipline-and-the-skills-it/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db5/ludmilla-jordanova-168734_discipline_history-is-inherently-an-eclectic-discip_109147.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db5/ludmilla-jordanova-168734_discipline_history-is-inherently-an-eclectic-discip_109147.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db5/ludmilla-jordanova-168734_discipline_history-is-inherently-an-eclectic-discip_109147.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And…” — Ludmilla Jordanova",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "Person",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludmilla-jordanova/#person",
            "name": "Ludmilla Jordanova",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludmilla-jordanova/",
            "description": "Ludmilla Jane Jordanova is a British historian and academic. She is Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of History at Durham University."
        },
        {
            "@type": "ProfilePage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludmilla-jordanova/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludmilla-jordanova/",
            "name": "Ludmilla Jordanova",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludmilla-jordanova/#person"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db5/ludmilla-jordanova-168734_discipline_history-is-inherently-an-eclectic-discip_109147.jpg"
            },
            "description": "Ludmilla Jane Jordanova is a British historian and academic. She is Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of History at Durham University.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludmilla-jordanova/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludmilla-jordanova/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Authors",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/authors/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Ludmilla Jordanova",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludmilla-jordanova/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```