Qui Miscuit Utile Dulci

by Schmeling, Gareth L.; Mikalson, Jon D.; MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan

• ISBN13: 9780865164062
• ISBN10: 0865164061
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Bolchazy Carducci Pub

Summary

Modern Historiographyis the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era. In a unique overview of modern historiography, the book includes surveys on the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment; Romanticism; the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought; the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World; theAnnalesschool in France; and the effects of the repression and exile of the inter-war years and the Post-War 'moods.'Modern Historiographyprovides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii	(3)
Tabula Gratulatoria	x	(2)
Published Works of Paul Lachlan MacKendrick	xii
The Red Stones Speak: Porphyry Discs in the Pavements of Roman Churches	1	(16)
Isobel J.
Eric C. Baade
Tacitus Germania 33.2: The State of the Question	17	(14)
Herbert W. Benario
Caesar and the Evil Eye or What to Do with "XXX, XXX"	31	(20)
Frederick E. Brenk
Linear A on Trojan Spindlewhorls, Luvian-Based FANAXXX at Cnossus	51	(18)
Edwin L. Brown
From Clementia Caesaris to La Clemenza di Tito	69	(18)
Jeffrey L. Buller
"Tripe and Garbage:" William Abbott Oldfather on the Limits of Research	87	(8)
William M. Calder III
Some Names on a Cup by Makron: Etymology and Louvre G 148	95	(20)
Robert Cromey
Reconsidering the Riddle of the Sphinx in Oedipus at Colonus and I'm Not Rappaport	115	(18)
Judith de Luce
Firmicus Maternus and the Politics of Conversion	133	(18)
H.A. Drake
Cicero The Dramaturge: Verisimilitude and Consistency of Characterization in Some of His Dialogues	151	(14)
Andrew R. Dyck
Aulus Vettius Caprasius Felix of Ancient Pompeii	165	(12)
James L. Franklin, Jr.
Alexander and Olympias	177	(8)
E.A. Fredricksmeyer
Crawford's Cecilia: Conversions on the Janiculum	185	(16)
Katherine A. Geffcken
Erotodidaxis: Iucunda Voluptas in Lucretius 2.3 and Propertius 1.10.3	201	(22)
Joy King
Domitianic Construction at Cumae (Campania)	223	(20)
Alexander G. McKay
Et Manu Papae: Papal Subscriptions Written Sua Manu in Late Antiquity	243	(10)
Ralph W. Mathisen
The Heracleotai of Athens	253	(12)
Jon D. Mikalson
The Dacian Walls Speak: Plato in Moldavia	265	(22)
Helen F. North
An Ordinary Aphrodisian Family: The Message of a Stone	287	(12)
Joyce Reynolds
Cicero, Bibulus, and Caesar's Agrarian Bills of 59 B.C.E.	299	(14)
L. Richardson, jr
Survey Archaeology around Fordongianus (Forum Traiani), Sardinia	313	(16)
Robert J. Rowland Jr.
Stephen L. Dyson
What Is a Classic? Answering Mr. Eliot's Question, Fifty Years Later	329	(14)
Harry C. Rutledge
Aphrodite and the Satyrica	343	(6)
Gareth Schmeling
Milton's in Quintum Novembris, anno aetatis 17 (1626): Choices and Intentions	349	(28)
Dana F. Sutton
E.S. Beesly and the Roman Revolution	377
T.P. Wiseman