Paramètres
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
En savoir plus sur le livre
A distillation of the thought and research to which Herbert Butterfield devoted the last twenty years of his life to, this book, originally published in 1981, traces how differently people understood the relevance of their past and its connection with their religion. It examines ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia; the political perceptiveness of the Hittites; the Jewish sense of God in history, of promise and fulfilment; the classical achievement of scientific history; and the unique Chinese tradition of historical writing. The author explains the problems of the early Christians in relating their traditions of Jesus to their life and faith and the emergence, when Christianity became the religion of the Roman Empire, of a new historical understanding. The book then charts the gradual growth of a sceptical approach to recorded authority in Islam and Western Europe, the reconstruction of the past by deductive analysis of the surviving evidence and the secularisation of the eighteenth century.
Achat du livre
The Origins of History, Herbert Butterfield, Adam Watson
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1981
- Reliure
- (rigide),
- État du livre
- Bon
- Prix
- 5,59 €
Modes de paiement
Personne n'a encore évalué .
- Titre
- The Origins of History
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Herbert Butterfield, Adam Watson
- Éditeur
- Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Publié
- 1981
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0413483703
- ISBN13
- 9780413483706
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Description
- A distillation of the thought and research to which Herbert Butterfield devoted the last twenty years of his life to, this book, originally published in 1981, traces how differently people understood the relevance of their past and its connection with their religion. It examines ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia; the political perceptiveness of the Hittites; the Jewish sense of God in history, of promise and fulfilment; the classical achievement of scientific history; and the unique Chinese tradition of historical writing. The author explains the problems of the early Christians in relating their traditions of Jesus to their life and faith and the emergence, when Christianity became the religion of the Roman Empire, of a new historical understanding. The book then charts the gradual growth of a sceptical approach to recorded authority in Islam and Western Europe, the reconstruction of the past by deductive analysis of the surviving evidence and the secularisation of the eighteenth century.