Conversations about History, Volume 2.

Conversations About History, Volume 2, is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading historians with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the diffe...

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Tác giả chính: Burton, Howard
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Toronto : Open Agenda Publishing, 2021.
Loạt:Ideas Roadshow Collections.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv22jnkhs
Mục lục:
  • Intro
  • Textual Note
  • Preface
  • Apocalypse Then
  • The First Crusade
  • A conversation with Jay Rubenstein
  • Introduction
  • I. Becoming a Medievalist
  • II. Guibert of Nogent
  • III. Armies of Heaven
  • IV. Considering Impact
  • V. Moving On
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • The Derveni Papyrus
  • A conversation with Richard Janko
  • Introduction
  • I. A Great Discovery
  • II. Derveni Details
  • III. An Ancient Culture War
  • IV. Rose-coloured Glasses?
  • V. Summing Up
  • The Passionate Historian
  • A conversation with John Elliott
  • Introduction
  • I. Beginnings
  • II. In Search of Objectivity
  • III. Past and Present
  • IV. Circumventing Obstacles
  • V. Doing History
  • VI. The Power of Imagination
  • VII. Decline
  • VIII. The Impact of Technology
  • IX. Going Global
  • X. History's Due
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • Constitutional Investigations
  • A conversation with Linda Colley
  • Introduction
  • I. Personal History
  • II. Constitutions, Part 1
  • III. Constitutions, Part 2
  • IV. Implications and Applications
  • V. Marching Onwards
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • Byzantium
  • Beyond the Cliché
  • A conversation with Maria Mavroudi
  • Introduction
  • I. Becoming A Byzantinist
  • II. Historical Background
  • III. The High-School Narrative
  • IV. Recovering Truth
  • V. Building Knowledge
  • VI. Annotated Discoveries
  • VII. A Translational Discovery
  • VIII. Arrows of Causality
  • IX. Decline
  • X. Extracting Meaning
  • XI. Ever-Moving Targets