Carnley Peter
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198267560
- eISBN:
- 9780191683299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198267560.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
For several centuries, the understanding of the resurrection of God was often seen as a historical event, and this perception remained unchallenged for years. The resurrection of Christ was deemed an ...
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For several centuries, the understanding of the resurrection of God was often seen as a historical event, and this perception remained unchallenged for years. The resurrection of Christ was deemed an event that had occurred at one time on the human past and which was understood to have passed from generation to generation through the authoritative biblical tradition whose acceptance was based on the trustworthiness and sincerity of the apostolic witnesses. In recent years, in accordance with the increasing trend of critical-historical enquiry, the Church's belief in the resurrection of Christ has no longer been seen as a matter of passively receiving the traditional testimony, but rather is founded by drawing a rational inference after a critical scrutiny of the evidences presented by early witnesses. However, regardless of whether one relies on the authoritative transmitted tradition or the scientifically based reconstruction, the resurrection of Jesus as a historical event of the past remains the dominant belief among followers of Christianity. This belief is founded upon the trust and obedience of the continuing lordship and sovereignty of the raised One. This chapter discusses the structure of resurrection belief of the traditional kind, in which the use of the category of ‘historical event’ is accepted or defended as appropriate to the handling of the resurrection of Jesus, and, in which the chief apologetic concern has been to demonstrate the occurrence of this alleged event. The works of the nineteenth-century Anglican theologian B.F. Westcott and the German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg are examined in the chapter to serve as a paradigm to the structure of the resurrection belief.Less
For several centuries, the understanding of the resurrection of God was often seen as a historical event, and this perception remained unchallenged for years. The resurrection of Christ was deemed an event that had occurred at one time on the human past and which was understood to have passed from generation to generation through the authoritative biblical tradition whose acceptance was based on the trustworthiness and sincerity of the apostolic witnesses. In recent years, in accordance with the increasing trend of critical-historical enquiry, the Church's belief in the resurrection of Christ has no longer been seen as a matter of passively receiving the traditional testimony, but rather is founded by drawing a rational inference after a critical scrutiny of the evidences presented by early witnesses. However, regardless of whether one relies on the authoritative transmitted tradition or the scientifically based reconstruction, the resurrection of Jesus as a historical event of the past remains the dominant belief among followers of Christianity. This belief is founded upon the trust and obedience of the continuing lordship and sovereignty of the raised One. This chapter discusses the structure of resurrection belief of the traditional kind, in which the use of the category of ‘historical event’ is accepted or defended as appropriate to the handling of the resurrection of Jesus, and, in which the chief apologetic concern has been to demonstrate the occurrence of this alleged event. The works of the nineteenth-century Anglican theologian B.F. Westcott and the German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg are examined in the chapter to serve as a paradigm to the structure of the resurrection belief.
Hidemi Suganami
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198273387
- eISBN:
- 9780191684043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198273387.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter discusses the outcomes of various historical investigations into the causes of particular wars. First, it analyses three common theories of the concept of causation. The first theory ...
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This chapter discusses the outcomes of various historical investigations into the causes of particular wars. First, it analyses three common theories of the concept of causation. The first theory attaches central importance to ‘regularity’ in explicating ‘causality’, the second views the meaning of ‘causality’ in terms of the idea that, without ‘the cause’, ‘the effect’ would not have occurred, while the third argues that ‘explanation’ is integral to the concept of ‘causation’ and considers ‘a cause’ intrinsically as ‘an explanatory factor’. In his analysis of a causal explanation of singular events, Carl Hempel asserts that a singular causal remark ‘amounts to’ the assertion that, according to certain general laws, cause-type events are regularly accompanied by an effect-type event. This chapter also considers the idea of the regularity theory of the meaning of singular causal statements and rejects the covering-law theory of explanation. It concludes that causation, explanation, and narration are inextricably intertwined both in relation to events in nature and with reference to historical events in the social world.Less
This chapter discusses the outcomes of various historical investigations into the causes of particular wars. First, it analyses three common theories of the concept of causation. The first theory attaches central importance to ‘regularity’ in explicating ‘causality’, the second views the meaning of ‘causality’ in terms of the idea that, without ‘the cause’, ‘the effect’ would not have occurred, while the third argues that ‘explanation’ is integral to the concept of ‘causation’ and considers ‘a cause’ intrinsically as ‘an explanatory factor’. In his analysis of a causal explanation of singular events, Carl Hempel asserts that a singular causal remark ‘amounts to’ the assertion that, according to certain general laws, cause-type events are regularly accompanied by an effect-type event. This chapter also considers the idea of the regularity theory of the meaning of singular causal statements and rejects the covering-law theory of explanation. It concludes that causation, explanation, and narration are inextricably intertwined both in relation to events in nature and with reference to historical events in the social world.
Zoe Vania Waxman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199541546
- eISBN:
- 9780191709739
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199541546.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter charts the path of the ‘liberated prisoners’ and their gradual re-categorization over time, first as ‘Displaced Persons’, and eventually as ‘survivors’. It shows how the post-war ...
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This chapter charts the path of the ‘liberated prisoners’ and their gradual re-categorization over time, first as ‘Displaced Persons’, and eventually as ‘survivors’. It shows how the post-war introduction of the concept of ‘the Holocaust’ to describe survivors' experiences, and the adoption of the post-war identity of the survivor as witness, acted as organizational frameworks for survivors' experiences, enabling personal experiences of suffering to be viewed as essential components of a collective historical event.Less
This chapter charts the path of the ‘liberated prisoners’ and their gradual re-categorization over time, first as ‘Displaced Persons’, and eventually as ‘survivors’. It shows how the post-war introduction of the concept of ‘the Holocaust’ to describe survivors' experiences, and the adoption of the post-war identity of the survivor as witness, acted as organizational frameworks for survivors' experiences, enabling personal experiences of suffering to be viewed as essential components of a collective historical event.
Philip A. Stadter
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199593262
- eISBN:
- 9780191752261
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199593262.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
This chapter shows that Thucydides, like Herodotus, resolved to write a work that would bring out the role of human nature in historical events. He intended, however, to express himself even more ...
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This chapter shows that Thucydides, like Herodotus, resolved to write a work that would bring out the role of human nature in historical events. He intended, however, to express himself even more clearly and forcefully than the Halicarnassian, and in a manner more appropriate for a citizen of an imperial city, one who knew power at first hand. In interpreting Herodotus, Thucydides rethought his predecessor's modes of presentation, subject, and themes. He adopted Herodotus' treatment of war by campaign seasons for his whole narrative. Significant echoes from Herodotus gave focus and power to his narrative. While continuing and expanding the theme of suffering, he gave more importance to the polis, seen as a unit and a historical actor. Thucydides took over and further developed Herodotus' narrative techniques, including authoritative statements by the narrator, speeches, vivid description, and dialogue. Like Herodotus, Thucydides recounts the past as an invitation to look to the future.Less
This chapter shows that Thucydides, like Herodotus, resolved to write a work that would bring out the role of human nature in historical events. He intended, however, to express himself even more clearly and forcefully than the Halicarnassian, and in a manner more appropriate for a citizen of an imperial city, one who knew power at first hand. In interpreting Herodotus, Thucydides rethought his predecessor's modes of presentation, subject, and themes. He adopted Herodotus' treatment of war by campaign seasons for his whole narrative. Significant echoes from Herodotus gave focus and power to his narrative. While continuing and expanding the theme of suffering, he gave more importance to the polis, seen as a unit and a historical actor. Thucydides took over and further developed Herodotus' narrative techniques, including authoritative statements by the narrator, speeches, vivid description, and dialogue. Like Herodotus, Thucydides recounts the past as an invitation to look to the future.
Steven Hurst
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748620791
- eISBN:
- 9780748652686
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748620791.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This book provides a comprehensive description and critique of the six most important historical interpretations of US Cold War foreign policy: traditionalism, revisionism, post-revisionism, ...
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This book provides a comprehensive description and critique of the six most important historical interpretations of US Cold War foreign policy: traditionalism, revisionism, post-revisionism, corporatism, world systems theory, and post-structuralism. The book uses the ‘levels of analysis’ approach to demonstrate how each of these perspectives can be understood as an explanatory framework combining different types of factors located at different levels of the international system. This original way of explaining the work of the historians discussed helps the reader to see past the narrative and empirical elements of their writings and to grasp more clearly the underlying theoretical assumptions. In each chapter a description of the perspective's underlying theoretical framework and how it explains US foreign policy is followed by a critique of that theory and explanation. A central theme, developed throughout the book, is the difficulty of managing the constant tension between the explanatory power of theory and the historian's desire to encompass the complex totality of historical events. This critical companion can be read alongside the works of the historians themselves, showing how they have sought to explain US Cold War foreign policy and the key differences between their perspectives.Less
This book provides a comprehensive description and critique of the six most important historical interpretations of US Cold War foreign policy: traditionalism, revisionism, post-revisionism, corporatism, world systems theory, and post-structuralism. The book uses the ‘levels of analysis’ approach to demonstrate how each of these perspectives can be understood as an explanatory framework combining different types of factors located at different levels of the international system. This original way of explaining the work of the historians discussed helps the reader to see past the narrative and empirical elements of their writings and to grasp more clearly the underlying theoretical assumptions. In each chapter a description of the perspective's underlying theoretical framework and how it explains US foreign policy is followed by a critique of that theory and explanation. A central theme, developed throughout the book, is the difficulty of managing the constant tension between the explanatory power of theory and the historian's desire to encompass the complex totality of historical events. This critical companion can be read alongside the works of the historians themselves, showing how they have sought to explain US Cold War foreign policy and the key differences between their perspectives.
Dilip K. Chakrabarti
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198069898
- eISBN:
- 9780199080052
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198069898.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This book explores how the political history of ancient India has transpired in various geographical orbits, the definition of which has long bothered scholars. Contrary to widely held assumptions, ...
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This book explores how the political history of ancient India has transpired in various geographical orbits, the definition of which has long bothered scholars. Contrary to widely held assumptions, there was no fixed boundary line or ‘divide’. The Oxus-Indus orbit is the most popular and well understood geopolitical orbit. The idea can be attributed to T.H. Holdich in the late nineteenth century, when the question of delineating a permanent border between British India and Afghanistan became a crucial issue. This book explores whether such orbits are fixed entities in our geographical understanding of Indian archaeology and history, or whether they should be considered nothing more than useful concepts to understand the geography of the flow of historical events in India. To address this issue, it is necessary to historically trace the persistence of all such orbits throughout the course of political events in ancient India.Less
This book explores how the political history of ancient India has transpired in various geographical orbits, the definition of which has long bothered scholars. Contrary to widely held assumptions, there was no fixed boundary line or ‘divide’. The Oxus-Indus orbit is the most popular and well understood geopolitical orbit. The idea can be attributed to T.H. Holdich in the late nineteenth century, when the question of delineating a permanent border between British India and Afghanistan became a crucial issue. This book explores whether such orbits are fixed entities in our geographical understanding of Indian archaeology and history, or whether they should be considered nothing more than useful concepts to understand the geography of the flow of historical events in India. To address this issue, it is necessary to historically trace the persistence of all such orbits throughout the course of political events in ancient India.
Mariane C. Ferme
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225428
- eISBN:
- 9780520925717
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225428.003.0008
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the links between a violent historical and political legacy and a cultural order of dissimulation in the Mende-speaking southeastern ...
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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the links between a violent historical and political legacy and a cultural order of dissimulation in the Mende-speaking southeastern Sierra Leone. It presents the elements of a Mende cultural logic and emphasizes how conflicts central this cultural logic are in a mutually constitutive relationship with contingent historical events. It describes the historical processes of cultural and linguistic mediation as characterized by a local variant of creaolization which created highly unstable contours for the particular social field that might appear to be bound together.Less
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the links between a violent historical and political legacy and a cultural order of dissimulation in the Mende-speaking southeastern Sierra Leone. It presents the elements of a Mende cultural logic and emphasizes how conflicts central this cultural logic are in a mutually constitutive relationship with contingent historical events. It describes the historical processes of cultural and linguistic mediation as characterized by a local variant of creaolization which created highly unstable contours for the particular social field that might appear to be bound together.
John Boardman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691181752
- eISBN:
- 9780691184043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691181752.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter looks at how several contemporary scholars, courtiers, and writers who knew Alexander wrote histories of his exploits. From them scholars can glean some idea of historical events, but ...
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This chapter looks at how several contemporary scholars, courtiers, and writers who knew Alexander wrote histories of his exploits. From them scholars can glean some idea of historical events, but also the nonhistorical ones, as well as much that was generated by prejudice for or against their subject. All these historians have been discussed by Lionel Pearson in his The Lost Histories of Alexander the Great, a monograph of the American Philological Association of 1960. An even fuller account of these sources is Professor U. P. Arora's Greeks on India, Alexander to Megasthenes. The chapter dwells especially on two authors who depended on and quoted these sources—Plutarch and Arrian—writing long after the events.Less
This chapter looks at how several contemporary scholars, courtiers, and writers who knew Alexander wrote histories of his exploits. From them scholars can glean some idea of historical events, but also the nonhistorical ones, as well as much that was generated by prejudice for or against their subject. All these historians have been discussed by Lionel Pearson in his The Lost Histories of Alexander the Great, a monograph of the American Philological Association of 1960. An even fuller account of these sources is Professor U. P. Arora's Greeks on India, Alexander to Megasthenes. The chapter dwells especially on two authors who depended on and quoted these sources—Plutarch and Arrian—writing long after the events.
HeeMin Kim
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813129945
- eISBN:
- 9780813135748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813129945.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter looks at two seemingly strange events which occurred before the presidential election in South Korea in 1987. This chapter attempts to analyze, from the rational choice framework, the ...
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This chapter looks at two seemingly strange events which occurred before the presidential election in South Korea in 1987. This chapter attempts to analyze, from the rational choice framework, the seemingly irrational action of the candidate of the governing party agreeing to a direct presidential election, and the opposition candidates' failing to take this opportunity to win the presidency. The chapter also discusses the historical events that led up to the events of the 1987 presidential election.Less
This chapter looks at two seemingly strange events which occurred before the presidential election in South Korea in 1987. This chapter attempts to analyze, from the rational choice framework, the seemingly irrational action of the candidate of the governing party agreeing to a direct presidential election, and the opposition candidates' failing to take this opportunity to win the presidency. The chapter also discusses the historical events that led up to the events of the 1987 presidential election.
Eelco Runia
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231168205
- eISBN:
- 9780231537575
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231168205.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the ...
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Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. This book radically breaks with this tradition of predating the past, incites us to fully acknowledge the discontinuous nature of discontinuities, and proposes to use the fact that history is propelled by unforeseeable leaps and bounds as a starting point for a truly evolutionary conception of history. Integrating research from a variety of disciplines, the text identifies two modes of being “moved by the past”: regressive and revolutionary. In the regressive mode, the past may either overwhelm us—as in nostalgia—or provoke us to act out what we believe to be solidly dead. When we are moved by the past in a revolutionary sense, we may be said to embody history: we burn our bridges behind us and create accomplished facts we have no choice but to live up to. In the final thesis of the text, humans energize their own evolution by habitually creating situations (“catastrophes” or sublime historical events) that put a premium on mutations.Less
Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. This book radically breaks with this tradition of predating the past, incites us to fully acknowledge the discontinuous nature of discontinuities, and proposes to use the fact that history is propelled by unforeseeable leaps and bounds as a starting point for a truly evolutionary conception of history. Integrating research from a variety of disciplines, the text identifies two modes of being “moved by the past”: regressive and revolutionary. In the regressive mode, the past may either overwhelm us—as in nostalgia—or provoke us to act out what we believe to be solidly dead. When we are moved by the past in a revolutionary sense, we may be said to embody history: we burn our bridges behind us and create accomplished facts we have no choice but to live up to. In the final thesis of the text, humans energize their own evolution by habitually creating situations (“catastrophes” or sublime historical events) that put a premium on mutations.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804783620
- eISBN:
- 9780804784580
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804783620.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter looks at history plays and tragedies. It pays attention to the changing link between English historical writing and the dramatic treatment of historical events. It specifically analyzes ...
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This chapter looks at history plays and tragedies. It pays attention to the changing link between English historical writing and the dramatic treatment of historical events. It specifically analyzes the role of drama in early modern English political culture. Poetry, and therefore drama, was considered as a powerful force for moral and political reform. The masque on the ruler was regarded as divine authority and a beneficent source of wealth and peace. The outbreak of the civil war resulted in the diminution and the surcease of the masque. Numerous plays between 1678 and 1682 have evidenced the conflicting ideologies of the emerging Whigs and Tories. It is observed that Roman plays showed the contrasting vision of republican and imperial regimes and values. Changes in the political climate may have then transformed a politically innocuous play into a dangerous one or vice versa.Less
This chapter looks at history plays and tragedies. It pays attention to the changing link between English historical writing and the dramatic treatment of historical events. It specifically analyzes the role of drama in early modern English political culture. Poetry, and therefore drama, was considered as a powerful force for moral and political reform. The masque on the ruler was regarded as divine authority and a beneficent source of wealth and peace. The outbreak of the civil war resulted in the diminution and the surcease of the masque. Numerous plays between 1678 and 1682 have evidenced the conflicting ideologies of the emerging Whigs and Tories. It is observed that Roman plays showed the contrasting vision of republican and imperial regimes and values. Changes in the political climate may have then transformed a politically innocuous play into a dangerous one or vice versa.
Rebecca E. Klatch
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520217133
- eISBN:
- 9780520922341
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520217133.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter evaluates the catalysts to activism—the people, experiences, and historical events—that provoked youth to dedicate themselves to making social change as politics became central to their ...
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This chapter evaluates the catalysts to activism—the people, experiences, and historical events—that provoked youth to dedicate themselves to making social change as politics became central to their identity.Less
This chapter evaluates the catalysts to activism—the people, experiences, and historical events—that provoked youth to dedicate themselves to making social change as politics became central to their identity.
Alison Lumsden
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748641536
- eISBN:
- 9780748651610
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641536.003.0014
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter discusses The Heart of Mid-Lothian, which is unlike Scott's earlier fiction, in the sense that it is less concerned with the recovery of the past. This fiction deals with no major ...
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This chapter discusses The Heart of Mid-Lothian, which is unlike Scott's earlier fiction, in the sense that it is less concerned with the recovery of the past. This fiction deals with no major historical event and provides a carefully controlled time scheme. This discussion states that The Heart of Mid-Lothian is not a conventional historical novel, but neither does it plainly take the question of personal growth and recovery of identity as its main subject matter. The chapter also takes a look at the different forms of discourse that are embedded within the novel.Less
This chapter discusses The Heart of Mid-Lothian, which is unlike Scott's earlier fiction, in the sense that it is less concerned with the recovery of the past. This fiction deals with no major historical event and provides a carefully controlled time scheme. This discussion states that The Heart of Mid-Lothian is not a conventional historical novel, but neither does it plainly take the question of personal growth and recovery of identity as its main subject matter. The chapter also takes a look at the different forms of discourse that are embedded within the novel.
Scott R. Erwin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199678372
- eISBN:
- 9780191757808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199678372.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society, Theology
The Introduction discusses the reasons for writing this book. Given the range and magnitude of Niebuhr's corpus, it states, any commentary on him can only provide a partial view, and any attempt to ...
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The Introduction discusses the reasons for writing this book. Given the range and magnitude of Niebuhr's corpus, it states, any commentary on him can only provide a partial view, and any attempt to summarize his thought will be incomplete. This isn't helped by the fact that Niebuhr's writings are well-known for being unsystematic. However, this text argues that there was a discernible vision animating through his writings. Niebuhr's theological approach remains divisive today. Leading thinkers have many different opinions on Niebuhr's effort to exercise responsibility in the present age. The Introduction ends by outlining how the book develops a holistic picture of Niebuhr's theological vision and how he applied it to the historical events of his time.Less
The Introduction discusses the reasons for writing this book. Given the range and magnitude of Niebuhr's corpus, it states, any commentary on him can only provide a partial view, and any attempt to summarize his thought will be incomplete. This isn't helped by the fact that Niebuhr's writings are well-known for being unsystematic. However, this text argues that there was a discernible vision animating through his writings. Niebuhr's theological approach remains divisive today. Leading thinkers have many different opinions on Niebuhr's effort to exercise responsibility in the present age. The Introduction ends by outlining how the book develops a holistic picture of Niebuhr's theological vision and how he applied it to the historical events of his time.
Alexander H. Morton
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748637386
- eISBN:
- 9780748653218
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637386.003.0011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter discusses the importance of comparing primary sources in reconstructuring historical events, genealogies and other historical facts. This micro-level analysis of data is important for ...
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This chapter discusses the importance of comparing primary sources in reconstructuring historical events, genealogies and other historical facts. This micro-level analysis of data is important for the academic integrity of historical inquiry, in spite of the fact that this mode of conducting historical research is out of fashion in the academy. In the chapter, the focus is on Rashid al-Din and Abu al-Qasim Qashani’s work on the Seljuqs of Iran. Before examining these two historians, the chapter first examines Zahir al-Din’s Saljuqnama.Less
This chapter discusses the importance of comparing primary sources in reconstructuring historical events, genealogies and other historical facts. This micro-level analysis of data is important for the academic integrity of historical inquiry, in spite of the fact that this mode of conducting historical research is out of fashion in the academy. In the chapter, the focus is on Rashid al-Din and Abu al-Qasim Qashani’s work on the Seljuqs of Iran. Before examining these two historians, the chapter first examines Zahir al-Din’s Saljuqnama.
Walter Goffart
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226300719
- eISBN:
- 9780226300726
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226300726.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. This book traces how these collections of “maps for history”—maps whose sole purpose was to ...
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Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. This book traces how these collections of “maps for history”—maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene—came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, it discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. The author focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, “modern” past. The book concludes with a detailed catalogue of more than 700 historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870.Less
Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. This book traces how these collections of “maps for history”—maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene—came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, it discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. The author focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, “modern” past. The book concludes with a detailed catalogue of more than 700 historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870.
Keith D. Miller
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617031083
- eISBN:
- 9781617031090
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617031083.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter examines Martin Luther King Jr.’s use of the Exodus narrative in his oration to reconceive the garbage workers’ strike in Memphis and as he imagines traveling in a time machine to visit ...
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This chapter examines Martin Luther King Jr.’s use of the Exodus narrative in his oration to reconceive the garbage workers’ strike in Memphis and as he imagines traveling in a time machine to visit sublime historical events. It considers how this fantasy of time travel enables King to summon the stupendous, multifaceted importance assigned by biblical writers to the Exodus, and how it also helps him treat the Bible as an ongoing drama that shaped the Protestant Reformation and American emancipation. The chapter argues that King framed the Exodus as a model for later, liberatory events in the lives of African Americans, including the Memphis strike.Less
This chapter examines Martin Luther King Jr.’s use of the Exodus narrative in his oration to reconceive the garbage workers’ strike in Memphis and as he imagines traveling in a time machine to visit sublime historical events. It considers how this fantasy of time travel enables King to summon the stupendous, multifaceted importance assigned by biblical writers to the Exodus, and how it also helps him treat the Bible as an ongoing drama that shaped the Protestant Reformation and American emancipation. The chapter argues that King framed the Exodus as a model for later, liberatory events in the lives of African Americans, including the Memphis strike.
Nancy Duvall Hargrove
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034010
- eISBN:
- 9780813039367
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034010.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Looking into the mid-nineteenth century when the Second Republic rose, as well as looking at various important historical events, aid in gaining a better understanding of what it was like in Paris ...
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Looking into the mid-nineteenth century when the Second Republic rose, as well as looking at various important historical events, aid in gaining a better understanding of what it was like in Paris between 1910 and 1911. The Second Empire was initiated by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and represented his political imprint and social stamp. This chapter attempts to recreate the city's practical aspects with the aim of demonstrating a comprehensive sense of the living experience of Eliot in Paris between 1910 and 1911. First the chapter provides a brief history of Paris from 1848 to 1911 while also providing relevant information regarding the following topics: the economy, local and international politics, transportation, electricity, communications, buildings and landmarks, sanitation, science and medicine, sports, the status of men and women, and entertainment and photography.Less
Looking into the mid-nineteenth century when the Second Republic rose, as well as looking at various important historical events, aid in gaining a better understanding of what it was like in Paris between 1910 and 1911. The Second Empire was initiated by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and represented his political imprint and social stamp. This chapter attempts to recreate the city's practical aspects with the aim of demonstrating a comprehensive sense of the living experience of Eliot in Paris between 1910 and 1911. First the chapter provides a brief history of Paris from 1848 to 1911 while also providing relevant information regarding the following topics: the economy, local and international politics, transportation, electricity, communications, buildings and landmarks, sanitation, science and medicine, sports, the status of men and women, and entertainment and photography.
Eelco Runia
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231168205
- eISBN:
- 9780231537575
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231168205.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
This chapter examines what conception of the “historical sublime” is actually operative in Friedrich Schiller's play Die Räuber (“The Robbers”), which has the benefit of treating the sublime from the ...
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This chapter examines what conception of the “historical sublime” is actually operative in Friedrich Schiller's play Die Räuber (“The Robbers”), which has the benefit of treating the sublime from the inside. The difference between history as experienced from the inside and history as experienced from the outside may be reconceptualized in terms of what dominates what. In Schiller's theoretical essays the historical sublime dominates us: in the sublime historical events Schiller meditates upon in his essays a way of life is “overtaken” by what is new. In Schiller's plays, however, the sublime is not primarily something that “overtakes us,” but first and foremost we—or at least some of his heroes—“overtake” the things we take for granted. After discussing Schiller's insights about the sublime in history, the chapter considers his conviction that history is primarily “metamorphosis”—that things change not just marginally but more fundamentally than we can even imagine. Finally, it discusses the condition of “standing on the brink of time,” or what might be called vertigo.Less
This chapter examines what conception of the “historical sublime” is actually operative in Friedrich Schiller's play Die Räuber (“The Robbers”), which has the benefit of treating the sublime from the inside. The difference between history as experienced from the inside and history as experienced from the outside may be reconceptualized in terms of what dominates what. In Schiller's theoretical essays the historical sublime dominates us: in the sublime historical events Schiller meditates upon in his essays a way of life is “overtaken” by what is new. In Schiller's plays, however, the sublime is not primarily something that “overtakes us,” but first and foremost we—or at least some of his heroes—“overtake” the things we take for granted. After discussing Schiller's insights about the sublime in history, the chapter considers his conviction that history is primarily “metamorphosis”—that things change not just marginally but more fundamentally than we can even imagine. Finally, it discusses the condition of “standing on the brink of time,” or what might be called vertigo.
John C. Tibbetts
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300106749
- eISBN:
- 9780300128031
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300106749.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
This book describes the power possessed by dramatizations in the movies of historical events and famous people, and the enduring image they present that is significantly distinct from those that one ...
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This book describes the power possessed by dramatizations in the movies of historical events and famous people, and the enduring image they present that is significantly distinct from those that one can get from history books. Professional historians may chronicle their subjects with greater detail, precision, and accuracy, but they can scarcely hope to convey their portraits with a comparable degree of graphic, personal, and emotional vividness. That historical films and biopics construct peculiarly persuasive images has been demonstrated over and over again. Oliver Stone's JFK is a particularly compelling example. Its depiction of conspiratorial plots behind the Kennedy assassination was so visually persuasive that, to this day, it arouses controversy and threatens to overshadow the findings of the Warren Commission.Less
This book describes the power possessed by dramatizations in the movies of historical events and famous people, and the enduring image they present that is significantly distinct from those that one can get from history books. Professional historians may chronicle their subjects with greater detail, precision, and accuracy, but they can scarcely hope to convey their portraits with a comparable degree of graphic, personal, and emotional vividness. That historical films and biopics construct peculiarly persuasive images has been demonstrated over and over again. Oliver Stone's JFK is a particularly compelling example. Its depiction of conspiratorial plots behind the Kennedy assassination was so visually persuasive that, to this day, it arouses controversy and threatens to overshadow the findings of the Warren Commission.
