Schiffman, Zachary Sayre. <br/><br/>
The birth of the past / 
Zachary Sayre Schiffman ; foreword by Anthony Grafton. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  2011. 
 - xvi, 316 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Antiquity -- Flatland -- Pasts Present -- The Herodotean Achievement -- Thucydides and the Refashionings of Linear Time -- Hellenistic Innovations -- pt. TWO 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. 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 -- pt. 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1421402785 : HRD  $65.00 9781421402789 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Attn Michael Donatelli 2715 N Charles st, Baltimore, MD, USA, 21218, (410)5166900 SAN 202-7348 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011008229 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History--Philosophy.<br/>Historiography--Philosophy.<br/>Historiography--Western countries.<br/>Civilization, Western.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Western countries--Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D16.8  / .S268 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>901