Through the Walls of Time: A Short Reflection on Writing Early Modern Intellectual History
This short piece takes a longstanding problem from the history of ideas, viz. the use of contemporary concepts in descriptions of past phenomena, and discusses its implications for broader intellectual history. Scholars have argued that being transparent about anachronism can be a first step towards...
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Brill
2015
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Zutot
Year: 2015, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-38 |
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Bricolage
brokerage
history of ideas
Late Scholasticism
Menasseh ben Israel
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