Schiffman, Zachary Sayre.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: The past defined — Pt. I. Antiquity : Flatland Pasts present The Herodotean achievement Thucydides and the refashionings of linear time Hellenistic Innovations — Pt. II. Christianity : Can’t get here from there The power of prayer Breakthrough to the now The idea of the saeculum The saeculum reconfigured Gregory of Tours and the saeculum Back from the future: Bede and the figural view of reality — Pt. III. Renaissance : The living past The birth of anachronism Petrarch’s Copernican leap The commonplace view of the world Jean Bodin and the unity of history — Pt. IV. Enlightenment : Presence and distance Biography as a form of history — The politics of history The relations of truth/the truth of relations Montesquieu and the relations of things The past emerges –Epilogue: The past historicized.
Subjects:
- History — Philosophy.
- Historiography — Philosophy.
- Historiography — Western countries.
- Western countries — Intellectual life.
- Civilization, Western.
- Geschichtsschreibung. (DE-588)4020531-9 gnd
- Vergangenheit. (DE-588)4316381-6 gnd
- Zeit. (DE-588)4067461-7 gnd
- Westliche Welt. (DE-588)4079237-7 gnd
- Geschichte.
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