TY - BOOK ID - 16878499 TI - History, theory, text : historians and the linguistic turn PY - 2004 SN - 0674015843 0674015169 9780674015845 0674029585 PB - Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press, DB - UniCat KW - Historiography KW - History KW - Christian literature, Early KW - Philosophie de l'histoire KW - --Histoire KW - --Historiographie KW - --Littérature chrétienne KW - --Philosophy KW - History and criticism KW - Historiography. KW - History and criticism. KW - Philosophy. KW - Criticism [Historical ] KW - Critique historique KW - Geschiedkundige methodologie KW - Geschiedschrijving KW - Geschiedschrijving--Methodologie KW - Historical criticism KW - Historical method KW - Historical methodology KW - Historiografie KW - Historiographie KW - Historische kritiek KW - Historische methode KW - Historische methodologie KW - History--Criticism KW - Kritiek [Historische ] KW - Methodologie [Historische ] KW - Methodology [Historical ] KW - History as a science KW - 930.21 "19" KW - 930.21 "19" Historiografie: 20ste eeuw KW - Historiografie: 20ste eeuw KW - #A0510HI KW - Histoire KW - Littérature chrétienne primitive KW - Philosophie KW - Histoire et critique KW - History, Modern KW - Authorship KW - Philosophy KW - Criticism KW - Christian literature [Early ] KW - History - Philosophy KW - Christian literature, Early - History and criticism KW - Littérature chrétienne UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16878499 AB - In this work of sweeping erudition, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Elizabeth Clark argues forcefully for a renewal of the study of premodern Western history through engagement with the kinds of critical methods that have transformed other humanities disciplines in recent decades. History, Theory, Text provides a user-friendly survey of crucial developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century debates surrounding history, philosophy, and critical theory. Beginning with the "noble dream" of "history as it really was" in the works of Leopold von Ranke, Clark goes on to review Anglo-American philosophies of history, schools of twentieth-century historiography, structuralism, the debate over narrative history, the changing fate of the history of ideas, and the impact of interpretive anthropology and literary theory on current historical scholarship. In a concluding chapter she offers some practical case studies to illustrate how attending to theoretical considerations can illuminate the study of premodernity. Written with energy and clarity, History, Theory, Text is a clarion call to historians for richer and more imaginative use of contemporary theory. ER -