In this article, the author tracks the main developments in historical methodology over the last four decades. During these years, history went from a modernist view that treated it as a science, to a postmodernist view that labeled it an art or intellectual game. Accordingly, views as to the cognitive abilities of the historical discipline went from a belief in the possibility of historical objectivity to an absolute relativism of our knowledge of the past. The author explains that he does not exclusively support either a modernist or a postmodernist paradigm. Rather, he supports a methodological eclecticism of a type which is often seen in the field of historical anthropology. As an example, Pomorski examines one such work, Irmina Wawrzyczek's «Planting and Loving: Popular Sexual Mores in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake».