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Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 130.
Published: 01 January 2016
...John Boardman Hall J. M. , Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 ), 258 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...
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The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Simon Goldhill [email protected] Frederic Clark , The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2020 ), 355 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 In this impressive first book...
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Caroline Bynum and Medieval Art History in America: Perspectives from an Art Historian and Student
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 76–123.
Published: 01 January 2024
... especially art history. Furthermore, her body of scholarship registers a consistent engagement with art historians. Weaving together personal memoir and historiography, this article sketches the manifold ways in which Bynum's publications have responded to and shaped the contours of medieval art history...
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The Silence of the Historian and the Ingenuity of the Storyteller: Rabbi Amnon of Mayence and Esther Minna of Worms
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (2): 228–240.
Published: 01 April 2003
...Israel J. Yuval Am-Oved Publishers, Tel Aviv, Israel 1997 Translated by Naomi Goldblum CK 9.2-05 Yuval 3/14/03 10:49 AM Page 228
THE SILENCE OF THE HISTORIAN
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INGENUITY OF THE STORYTELLER...
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Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian by Leonora Neville
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 330–331.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Averil Cameron Neville Leonora , Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 ), 240 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...
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Historians and Storytellers
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 163–164.
Published: 01 April 2019
... remark of J. H. Elliott’s: “Something is amiss when the name of Martin Guerre threatens to become better known than that of Martin Luther.” In the present piece, Thomas writes of Ginzburg, a founder of Italian microhistory, that he is more a “European intellectual” than a “mere historian,” the difference...
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The Historians’ Preposterous Project
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 167–170.
Published: 01 April 2019
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Historians and Storytellers
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 9–10.
Published: 01 January 2014
.... Elliott's: “Something is amiss when the name of Martin Guerre threatens to become better known than that of Martin Luther.” In the present piece, Thomas writes of Ginzburg, a founder of Italian microhistory, that he is more a “European intellectual” than a “mere historian,” the difference being...
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TIEPOLO: An Artist without Gravity
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 164–170.
Published: 01 January 2013
... to consider Tiepolo artistically, intellectually, or morally frivolous. “Scientific” art historians have applied the category of “decoration” to these somber etchings, with their incomprehensible allegories, but Calasso, himself an artist (a novelist), approaches these pictures without scientific prejudice...
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FUZZY STUDIES: A Symposium on the Consequence of Blur Part 1
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 441–449.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., the author questions how Rorty expected his endorsement of the “new fuzziness” to be applied, as proposed, to theology and politics. Suggesting that such applications are the natural work of historians, the author, having asked the historian Natalie Zemon Davis for comment, then quotes her response—which...
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The Advent of the Tasburghs: A Documentary Study in the Adair Family Collection
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 296–336.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Colin Richmond In the context of an issue of Common Knowledge dedicated to instances of experimental scholarship and to discussion of them, this contribution by a social historian of medieval England sets out to demonstrate that an empirical alternative to tendentious and interpretive...
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HARD, SOFT, AND FUZZY HISTORIOGRAPHY
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 511–517.
Published: 01 August 2014
... there are for the use of Occam's razor. “The notion of ‘fuzziness’ ” does not disturb historians, as it does scholars in some other disciplines, since historians have at their disposal an established contextualist “means of navigating it.” Sowerby Scott , Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious...
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Fuzzy Histories
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 239–248.
Published: 01 April 2012
... between precise and fuzzy historians. In the first phase, in the nineteenth century, precise history, firmly based on documents, was defined, by Leopold von Ranke and the Rankeans, against an older fuzzy or “conjectural” history. In a second phase, at the beginning of the twentieth century, a new fuzzy...
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“OUR PROTESTANT Rabbin”: A Dialogue on the Conversion/Apostasy of Lord George Gordon
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 283–314.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Dominic Green; Marsha Keith Schuchard This article comprises a dialogue between two historians who have attempted, individually, to narrate the life of Lord George Gordon (1751 – 93), the Scottish prophet, revolutionary, and convert to Judaism. For modern cultural historians, Gordon's...
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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: First and Lasting Impressions
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 January 2008
... of Rochester in the mid-1970s, have been lasting impressions. The seminar introduced patterns of thought and behavior that proved consistent over the years, despite Fox-Genovese's several shifts in the past three decades—from Marxist to non-Marxist, historian of France to historian of antebellum Southern women...
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Auschwitz
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 61–65.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Colin Richmond Abstract This contribution to the final installment of the Common Knowledge symposium on contextualism is a reply to another contribution, Peter Burke's “Alternative Modes of Thought.” Or rather, this essay responds to the historians and social scientists whom Burke cites as arguing...
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“NEGATIVE TO A MARKED Degree” OR “AN INTENSE AND GLOWING Faith”?: Rufus Jones and Quaker Quietism
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 518–531.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Elaine Pryce A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Apology for Quietism,” this article focuses on the early-twentieth-century Quaker historian and philosopher of mysticism, Rufus Jones, who treated Quietism as in polar opposition to the work of Quakerism “here...
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THE CHIMERA OF RELATIVISM: A Tragicomedy
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 13–26.
Published: 01 January 2011
... by anthropologists or historians, of attitudes of epistemic tolerance or efforts at explanatory or evaluative symmetry. Objections here commonly involve mistaken, unwarranted universalizing of those attitudes or recommendations. Purported refutations of what is identified as relativism commonly have no force...
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BEHIND THE VEIL: In Memory of Pierre Hadot
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 433–440.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Luc Brisson; Michael Chase This memorial essay on the French historian of philosophy Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) explores his life and work. Starting out from an ecclesiastical background and education, Hadot's interest in mysticism led him to study the late Greek Neoplatonists Plotinus and Porphyry...
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PART OF THE PROBLEM
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Caroline Walker Bynum In this guest column, the medieval historian Caroline Walker Bynum uses her recent experiences as a hospital volunteer advocate for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence in New York City to meditate on the progressive politics of her younger days in the 1960s, on her...
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