Why History? : A History

What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different historians have conceived their activities, and to show the purposes that their work has serve...

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1. Verfasser: Bloxham, Donald (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2020
Schlagworte:Historiography History History-Philosophy Electronic books
Umfang:1 online resource (409 pages)
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520 |a Cover -- Why History?: A History -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- On 'Modern Historical Consciousness' -- Continuity and Change in Justifications for History -- 1: Classical History between Epic and Rhetoric -- Introduction -- Genealogy, Ethnography, and Historical Consciousness -- Rhetoric, Purpose, Truth -- Useful and Pleasurable History -- From Greek to Roman Historiography -- Philosophy, Poetry, History: A Greek in Rome -- Roman Historiography in the Late Republic -- History under Monarchy -- Pre- and Anti-Christian Influences -- 2: History, Faith, Fortuna -- Introduction -- Classical-Christian Fusion -- Christianity and Judaism -- Early Christian Historiography -- Christian Philosophy of History -- On Causation: Determinism and Human Agency -- 3: The 'Middle Age' -- Introduction -- Annals and Ancestry -- Exemplarity, Allegory, and the Presence of the Past -- Periodization and the Conceptualization of Change -- Theology, Religious Hermeneutics, and History as Communion -- Socio-Economic Change and the Function of Genealogies -- History and Developments in Political Identity -- 'Others' Present and Past -- 4: Renaissances and Reformations -- Introduction -- Re-Encounters -- Romans, Greeks, Goths -- Developments in Source Criticism? -- Changed Circumstances, Contested Purposes -- The Return of Similitudo Temporum -- Sixteenth-Century French Historiography -- Modern Contextualization? -- Montaigne -- Church, State, and Historianship: A Comparative Perspective -- Ecclesiastical History and Source Criticism -- History in the Scientific Seventeenth Century -- 5: Society, Nature, Emancipation -- Introduction -- Prelude: Bolingbroke and Vico -- The French Enlightenment -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- The German Enlightenment and Early Romanticism -- Hegel -- Marx -- 6: Nationalism, Historicism, Crisis. 
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