A new history of the humanities : the search for principles and patterns from Antiquity to the present /
Rens Bod.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- xv, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The quest for principles and patters -- Antiquity: the dawn of the 'Humanities' -- Middle ages: the universal and the particular -- Early modern era: the unity of the Humanities -- Modern era: the Humanites renewed -- Insights from the Humanaties that changed the world. Introduction: Conclusion:
Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities offers the first overarching history of the humanities from antiquity to the present. There are already historical studies of musicology, logic, art history, linguistics, and histororiography, but this volume gathers these, and many other humanities disciplines, into a single cohereny account.