TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schiffman,Zachary Sayre
TI  - The birth of the past
SN  - 1421402785 : HRD
AV  - D16.8 .S268 2011
U1  - 901 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Western countries
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -