Schiffman, Zachary Sayre, <br/><br/>
The birth of the past / 
Zachary Sayre Schiffman ; foreword by Anthony Grafton. 
 - xvi, 316 páginas ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Incluye bibliografía. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: The past defined -- Pt. I. Antiquity : Flatland ; Pasts present ; The Herodotean achievement ; Thucydides and the refashionings of linear time ; Hellenistic Innovations -- Pt. II. Christianity : Can´t get here from there ; The power of prayer ; Breakthrough to the now ; The idea of the saeculum ; The saeculum reconfigured ; Gregory of Tours and the saeculum ; Back from the future: Bede and the figural view of reality -- Pt. III. Renaissance : The living past ; The birth of anachronism ; Petrarch´s ´Copernican leap´ ; The commonplace view of the world ; Jean Bodin and the unity of history -- Pt. IV. Enlightenment : Presence and distance ; Biography as a form of history -- The politics of history ; The relations of truth/the truth of relations ; Montesquieu and the relations of things ; The past emerges --Epilogue: The past historicized. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1421402785 9781421402789 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Filosofía de la historia.<br/>Historiografía.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>901  / S333b 2011