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050 00 $aD16.9$b.B43 1994
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100 1 $aBietenholz, Peter G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85804331
245 10 $aHistoria and fabula :$bmyths and legends in historical thought from antiquity to the modern age /$cby Peter G. Bietenholz.
260 $aLeiden ;$aNew York :$bBrill,$c1994.
263 $a9409
300 $aix, 434 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aBrill's studies in intellectual history,$x0920-8607 ;$vv. 59
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The problem to be studied. Definition of key terms. The beginnings of historical thinking: Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Hittites, ancient Israel -- Ch. 1. The Graeco-Roman Period. I. Greece: Hesiod, Herodotus, Thucydides and invented speeches, Euhemerus and Palaephatus, the Amazons. II. Rome: Livy, Romulus and some emperors proclaimed to be gods, Cicero and the historian's craft, Sextus Empiricus -- Ch. 2. Fabula and Historia. The Consciousness of the Past in the Middle Ages. I. Jacobus a Voragine's Legenda aurea: gospel figures. II. The Legenda aurea: emperors. III. Legends of the popes. IV. The Popess Joan. V. Pope Silvester II -- Ch. 3. Gog, Magog and the Latter-Day Emperor. I. Judaeo-Christian eschatology; Fredegar. II. The Mongols and Prester John. III. The Barbarossa myth -- Ch. 4. The Renaissance Period (1300-1600). I. Terminological refinements; a new sense of complexity. II. Towards an identification of myth: Dante, Boccaccio and Erasmus.
505 0 $aIII. Legendary saints and the heroes of Antiquity. IV. Joan of Arc. V. William Tell. VI. Arminius -- Ch. 5. Ad Fontes. Renaissance Genealogy and the Myth of the Golden Age. I. The descent from Troy. II. Nascent critique of fabulous genealogies. III. The monumental tomb of Maximilian I and other portrait galleries. IV. The Golden Age; historia and fabula in balance -- Ch. 6. Old Testament Scholarship in the Early Modern Age. I. Outline of the age. II. The 'neutral' study of the Old Testament; Joseph Scaliger and Richard Simon. III. The progress of fabula; Bochart, Kircher and La Peyrere. IV. The birth of the concept of sovereign myth; Spinoza, Vico, Herder and Eichhorn. V. Blurring the division line; Bossuet, Reimarus, Semler and accommodation -- Ch. 7. The Early Modern Age and the Origins of Rome. I. Prehistory defies the chronologers. II. Prehistory defies the antiquarians. III. The discovery of the mythical age; Fontenelle and Heyne. IV. The origins of Rome; the sceptics: Du Temps and Cluverius.
505 0 $aV. The origins of Rome; defenders of the tradition: Vossius, Perizonius. VI. The theory of myth applied to Rome; Heyne -- Ch. 8. Historia and Fabula in the New Testament. I. Limiting the sway of divine inspiration: Origen, Richard Simon and J.D. Michaelis. II. The English Deists. III. New Testament myths and the historical Jesus; David Friedrich Strauss -- Ch. 9. The Nineteenth Century. I. The Romantics and mythology. II. Hypercriticism: historia denounced as fabula. Old myths in the service of nationalism. III. Bachofen: from the mythical prehistory of Rome to matriarchy. IV. The last scholarly defenders of the historicity of Genesis. V. Historical subjects in nineteenth-century art: David, Gros, Werner -- Appendix I: Renaissance humanism and the problem of grace without baptism -- Appendix II: The debate on the origins of Rome in the Academie des Inscriptions.
520 $aHistorical thought, whether it is expressed in writing or through works of art, inevitably contains elements of fiction. Thus in every phase of the development of historical thinking the question arises: were these fictional elements recognized and if so, how was their function perceived? Was any effort made to distinguish between a documented fact and any assumptions or deductions related to it?
520 8 $aIn examining the past, was it deemed important to curb the free play of imagination or was it thought that any explanation, no matter how fanciful and irrational, was better than none? This is the question that this book attempts to answer. In doing so, it examines a rich variety of texts and also some works of art ranging from the Ancient Near East to the nineteenth century.
650 00 $aHistory$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061223
650 00 $aHistoricism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061210
650 0 $aHistoriography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061211
650 0 $aBelief and doubt.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013004
650 0 $aKnowledge, Theory of.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072732
740 0 $aMyths and legends in historical thought from antiquity to the modern age.
830 0 $aBrill's studies in intellectual history ;$vv. 59.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86747150
852 00 $bglx$hD16.9$i.B43 1994