Format:
Online-Ressource (335 p)
ISBN:
9781421402789
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Gestation -- Introduction: The Past Defined -- PART ONE: Antiquity -- Flatland -- Pasts Present -- The Herodotean Achievement -- Thucydides and the Refashionings of Linear Time -- Hellenistic Innovations -- PART TWO: Christianity -- Can't Get Here from There -- The Power of Prayer -- Breakthrough to the Now -- The Idea of the Sæculum -- The Sæculum Reconfigured -- Gregory of Tours and the Sæculum -- Back from the Future: Bede and the Figural View of Reality -- PART THREE: 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 -- PART FOUR: 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 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Gestation""; ""Introduction: The Past Defined""; ""PART ONE: Antiquity""; ""Flatland""; ""Pasts Present""; ""The Herodotean Achievement""; ""Thucydides and the Refashionings of Linear Time""; ""Hellenistic Innovations""; ""PART TWO: Christianity""; ""Can�t Get Here from There""; ""The Power of Prayer""; ""Breakthrough to the Now""; ""The Idea of the S�culum""; ""The S�culum Reconfigured""; ""Gregory of Tours and the S�culum""; ""Back from the Future: Bede and the Figural View of Reality""; ""PART THREE: Renaissance""; ""The Living Past""
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""The Birth of Anachronism""""Petrarch�s “Copernican Leap�""; ""The Commonplace View of the World""; ""Jean Bodin and the Unity of History""; ""PART FOUR: 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""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""
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""R""""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781421403373
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781421402789
Additional Edition:
Print version Birth of the Past
Language:
English
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Author information:
Grafton, Anthony 1950-
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