The birth of the past / Zachary Sayre Schiffman ; foreword by Anthony Grafton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.Description: xvi, 316 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1421402785 : HRD
  • 9781421402789
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 901 22
LOC classification:
  • D16.8 .S268 2011
Contents:
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.
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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.

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