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"Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development in recent decades. Adopted by researchers in the Digital Humanities and Spatial Sciences, gazetteers provide a way to model the kind of complex cultural, vernacular, and perspectival ideas of place that can be located in texts and expanded into an interconnected framework of naming history. This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age"--

Gazetteers --- Names, Geographical --- Geography --- Toponymy --- History. --- History as a science

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Im Bereich der Kunst haben Konzepte, bei denen ein Werk aus der Perspektive seines Schöpfers aufgefasst wird, seit langem Konjunktur. Sie spiegeln sich im hohen Stellenwert der Selbstaussagen von Künstlern wider und prägen die Arbeitsweisen der Kunstwissenschaft. Die Publikation reflektiert vor diesem Hintergrund die unterschiedlichen Gattungen der Biographie und ihrer Randbereiche. Untersucht werden Monographien, die Leben und Werk in Form der Künstlerbiographie miteinander verbinden, das "Maskenspiel" der Autobiographie sowie Selbstaussagen von Künstlern in Interviews oder programmatischen Stellungnahmen, schließlich aber auch die Lebenserinnerungen von Kunsthistorikern sowie die intellektuelle Biographie des Gelehrten. In the field of art, concepts in which a work has been considered from the perspective the artists themselves have long been in fashion. They are reflected in how highly artists' statements are valued, and characterize the working methods of art history and criticism. On this basis, the publication looks at the different genres of the biography and its periphery. It examines monographs that connect life and work in the form of an artist's biography, as well as the "masquerade" of the autobiography and what artists say about themselves and their work in interviews or in programmatic statements. It also takes an in-depth look at the memoirs of art historians and the academic biography of the scholar.

Art --- Historiography. --- History as a science --- art history --- biographies [documents] --- biographies [literary works]

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Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of the archive - all have undergone a sea change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital history. Yet technology's role in the field's development remains a glaring blind spot among digital scholars. Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, social media, and oral histories to show how technology and historians have come together. Using case studies, Crymble merges histories and philosophies of the field, separating issues relevant to historians from activities in the broader digital humanities movement.

History as a science --- History --- Historiography --- Computer network resources. --- Research --- Methodology.

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We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval society continued to flourish during the Renaissance. We should instead view Western civilization as undergoing several "renaissances" following the fall of Rome, over the course of a long Middle Ages that lasted until the mid-eighteenth century. While it is indeed necessary to divide history into periods, Le Goff maintains, the meaningful continuities of human development only become clear when historians adopt a long perspective. Genuine revolutions-the shifts that signal the end of one period and the beginning of the next-are much rarer than we think.

History as a science --- Historiography. --- History --- Periodization in history --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Periodization. --- Methodology --- Philosophy --- Criticism --- Historiography

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History as a science --- Oral history. --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Methodology --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Oral history --- Methodology.