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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 316 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421403373
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • D16 .B578 2011
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographies and index.

""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""

""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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