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Author : K. Scarlett Kingsley,Giustina Monti,Tim Rood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009159456
A series of essays exploring tradition and innovation across the full temporal range of Greco-Roman historiography.
Author : K. Scarlett Kingsley,Giustina Monti,Tim Rood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009179782
In this volume an international group of scholars revisits the themes of John Marincola's ground-breaking Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography. The nineteen chapters offer a series of case studies that explore how ancient historians' approaches to their projects were informed both by the pull of tradition and by the ambition to innovate. The key themes explored are the relation of historiography to myth and poetry; the narrative authority exemplified by Herodotus, the 'father' of history; the use of 'fictional' literary devices in historiography; narratorial self-presentation; and self-conscious attempts to shape the historiographical tradition in new and bold ways. The volume presents a holistic vision of the development of Greco-Roman historiography and the historian's dynamic position within this practice.
Author : Dan Batovici,Kristin de Troyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004334960
Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches offers a varied range of topics, concerns and approaches to reception history across the fields of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and late-antique Christianity.
Author : Thomas Asbridge
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061981364
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge’s book is a magnificent epic of Holy War between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.
Author : Bruce K. Alexander,Curtis P. Shelton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107007291
A fresh and radical analysis of psychology's scholarly roots and its potential for the future.
Author : Francis X. Blouin Jr.,William G. Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199324026
Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists. Written by an archivist and a historian, it shows how these changes have been brought on by new historical thinking, new conceptions of archives, changing notions of historical authority, modifications in archival practices, and new information technologies. The book takes an "archival turn" by situating archives as subjects rather than places of study, and examining the increasingly problematic relationships between historical and archival work. By showing how nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians and archivists in Europe and North America came to occupy the same conceptual and methodological space, the book sets the background to these changes. In the past, authoritative history was based on authoritative archives and mutual understandings of scientific research. These connections changed as historians began to ask questions not easily answered by traditional documentation, and archivists began to confront an unmanageable increase in the amount of material they processed and the challenges of new electronic technologies. The authors contend that historians and archivists have divided into two entirely separate professions with distinct conceptual frameworks, training, and purposes, as well as different understandings of the authorities that govern their work. Processing the Past moves toward bridging this divide by speaking in one voice to these very different audiences. Blouin and Rosenberg conclude by raising the worrisome question of what future historical archives might be like if historical scholars and archivists no longer understand each other, and indeed, whether their now different notions of what is archival and historical will ever again be joined.
Author : Martin L. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317372318
How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history’s academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing that it is an existential liability: if critical analysis reveals the sense that history offers to the world to be illusory, what stops historical scholarship from becoming a disguise for pessimism or nihilism? History is routinely invoked in all kinds of cultural, political, economic, psychological situations to provide a reliable account or justification of what is happening. Moreover, it addresses a world already receptive to comprehensive historical explanations: since everyone has some knowledge of history, everyone can be manipulated by it. This book analyses the relationship between specialized knowledge and everyday experience, taking phenomenology (Husserl) and pragmatism (James) as methodological guides. It is informed by a wide literature sceptical of the sense academic historical expertise produces and of the work history does, represented by thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Valéry, Anders and Cioran. How History Works discusses how history makes sense of the world even if what happens is senseless, arguing that behind the smoke-screen of historical scholarship looms a chaotic world-dynamic indifferent to human existence. It is valuable reading for anyone interested in historiography and historical theory.
Author : Norman Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350018365
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2141 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547806714
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a book of history which traces the trajectory of Western civilization (as well as the Islamic and Mongolian conquests) from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium. The work covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and West: I. The first period may be traced from the age of Trajan and the Antonines, when the Roman monarchy, having attained its full strength and maturity, began to verge towards its decline; and will extend to the subversion of the Western Empire, by the barbarians of Germany and Scythia, the rude ancestors of the most polished nations of modern Europe. This extraordinary revolution, which subjected Rome to the power of a Gothic conqueror, was completed about the beginning of the sixth century. II. The second period commences with the reign of Justinian, who, by his laws, as well as by his victories, restored a transient splendor to the Eastern Empire. It will comprehend the invasion of Italy by the Lombards; the conquest of the Asiatic and African provinces by the Arabs, who embraced the religion of Mahomet; the revolt of the Roman people against the feeble princes of Constantinople; and the elevation of Charlemagne, who, in the year eight hundred, established the second, or German Empire of the West III. The last and longest period includes about six centuries and a half; from the revival of the Western Empire, till the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, and the extinction of a degenerate race of princes. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament.
Author : Gibbon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00083453
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : HARVARD:HWK1XB
Author : Robert Greenberger
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780760343593
This is the first book to combine an authoritative history of the Star Trek franchise—including all six television series and eleven feature films—with anecdotes about the show from those who helped shape it from the outside in: the fans. Star Trek expert Robert Greenberger covers everything from show creator Gene Roddenberry’s initial plans for a series combining science-fiction and Western elements, the premiere of the original series in 1966, its cancellation, the franchise’s return in an animated series, and its subsequent history on television and film, up to expectations for the 2013 J.J. Abrams film. Along the way, Greenberger analyzes Star Trek’s unique cultural impact and tremendous cult following, including the famous (and first ever) save-the-show mail campaign. But this isn't a sugarcoated history; this book chronicles the missteps as well as the achievements of Roddenberry and others behind the franchise. Approximately two dozen sidebars provide personal experiences of dedicated Trekkies who influenced or became a part of the franchise. Star Trek fandom is unparalleled in the effects it has had on the franchise itself. The book is illustrated with a large collection of photographs of memorabilia, many of which have never been seen before in print.
Author : Mitchell King
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385109032
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Author : David Herlihy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1971-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349002535
Author : Scottish History Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Scotland
ISBN : UOM:39015048380920
