Author: Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : it
Pages : 400

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Author: Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN: 9788887114201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Author: Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : it
Pages : 420

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Author: Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521234467
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Author: Rosaria Vignolo Munson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199587566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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A collection of scholarship on Herodotus. Vol. 1 discusses his historical method, sources, narrative art, literary antecedents, intellectual background, and political ideology. Vol. 2 focuses on his description of foreign lands and peoples and the theoretical issues it raises, including the extent to which the ethnographic portrayals conform to a conventional Greek construct of barbarian 'otherness' or derive from direct contact with native sources.

Author: James H. Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199657858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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The study of Regal and Republican Rome presents a difficult and yet exciting challenge. The extant evidence, which for the most part is literary, is late, sparse, and difficult, and the value of it has long been a subject of intense and sometimes heated scholarly discussion. This volume provides students with an introduction to a range of important problems in the study of ancient Rome during the Regal and Republican periods in one accessible collection, bringing together a diverse range of influential papers. Of particular importance is the question of the value of the historiographical evidence (i.e. what the Romans themselves wrote about their past). By juxtaposing different and sometimes incompatible reactions to the evidence, the collection aims to challenge its readers and invite them to join the debate, and to assess the ancient evidence and modern interpretations of it for themselves.

Author: Hanns Gross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521893787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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This is the only scholarly work in the English language on the city of Rome in the Age of the Enlightenment, and the only book in any language to treat this fascinating city in all its multifarious aspects. Professor Gross combines extensive archival research with the latest findings of other scholars to produce a uniquely rounded portrait of the papal capital, elegantly illustrated with contemporary engravings by Piranesi and others. The book is divided into two sections, in the first of which Professor Gross discusses the material and institutional structures of the city, including its demography, economy, food supply, and judicial systems. The second section considers aspects of intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Professor Gross contends not only that ancien-regime Rome witnessed a decline in Counter-Reformation fervour, but that this decay resulted in a marked dissonance in the political, social, and cultural life of the city.

Author: Peter N. Miller
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501708236
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441

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Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, as well as anthropologists and archeologists worldwide. — Nathan Schlanger, École nationale des chartes, Paris Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture—the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary—rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in 100 Objects indicate the growing popularity of this way of understanding the past. In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the past through its artifacts by highlighting the role of antiquarianism—a pursuit ignored and derided by modem academic history—in grasping the significance of material culture. From the efforts of Renaissance antiquarians, who reconstructed life in the ancient world from coins, inscriptions, seals, and other detritus, to amateur historians in the nineteenth century working within burgeoning national traditions, Miller connects collecting—whether by individuals or institutions—to the professionalization of the historical profession, one which came to regard its progenitors with skepticism and disdain. The struggle to articulate the value of objects as historical evidence, then, lies at the heart both of academic history-writing and of the popular engagement with things. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that our current preoccupation with objects is far from novel and reflects a human need to reexperience the past as a physical presence.