Description |
x, 336 pges. ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Defending and lamenting history -- 2. Anglo-American philosophy and the historians -- 3. Language and structures -- 4. The territory of the historians -- 5. Narrative and history -- 6. The new intellectual history -- 7. Texts and contexts -- 8. History, theory, and premodern texts |
Summary |
"In this work, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Elizabeth Clark argues for a renewal of the study of premodern western history through engagement with the kings of critical methods that have transformed other humanities disciplines in recent decades. Beginning with the "noble dream" of "history as it actually happened" in the works of some nineteenth-century historians, Clark goes on to review Anglo-American philosophies of history, schools of twentieth-century historiography, structuralism, the debate over narrative history, the changing fate of the history of ideas, and the impact of interpretive anthropology and literary theory on current historical scholarship. In a concluding chapter she offers some practical case studies to illustrate how attending to theoretical consideratios can illuminate the study of premodernity."--BOOK JACKET |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references page ([193]-318) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Historiography.
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History -- Philosophy.
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Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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LC no. |
2004047358 |
ISBN |
9780674015845 |
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