The birth of the past / Zachary Sayre Schiffman ; foreword by Anthony Grafton.
Schiffman, Zachary Sayre.
2011
D16.8 .S268 2011 (Mapit)
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Title The birth of the past / Zachary Sayre Schiffman ; foreword by Anthony Grafton.
Author Schiffman, Zachary Sayre.
ISBN 9781421402789 (alk. paper)
1421402785 (alk. paper)
Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xvi, 316 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number D16.8 .S268 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 901
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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