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The Birth of the Past
Zachary Sayre Schiffman
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Description for The Birth of the Past
Paperback. Featuring a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating book draws upon a diverse range of sources-ancient histories, medieval theology, Renaissance art, literature, legal thought, and early modern mathematics and social science-to uncover the meaning of the past and its relationship to the present. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; HBJD; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 27. Weight in Grams: 508.
How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In The Birth of the Past, Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world. Today we automatically distinguish between past and present, labeling things that appear out of place as anachronisms. Schiffman shows how this tendency did not always exist and how the past as such was born of a perceived difference between past and present. Schiffman takes readers on ... Read more
How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In The Birth of the Past, Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world. Today we automatically distinguish between past and present, labeling things that appear out of place as anachronisms. Schiffman shows how this tendency did not always exist and how the past as such was born of a perceived difference between past and present. Schiffman takes readers on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
508g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421422787
SKU
V9781421422787
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About Zachary Sayre Schiffman
Zachary Sayre Schiffman is the Bernard Brommel Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance, the coauthor of Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution, and the editor of Humanism and the Renaissance.
Reviews for The Birth of the Past
Complex and erudite, confident and controversial. As Schiffman's brilliant argument suggests, anachronism not only helps define the past but becomes its doppelganger.
Times Literary Supplement
Lively, brilliant, and erudite. [Schiffman's] learned and engaging style [and] fresh, stimulating ideas provide a intellectual feast not only for students of Western civilization, but for those of us seeking to understand other ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
Lively, brilliant, and erudite. [Schiffman's] learned and engaging style [and] fresh, stimulating ideas provide a intellectual feast not only for students of Western civilization, but for those of us seeking to understand other ... Read more