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A new history of the humanities : the search for principles and patterns from Antiquity to the present / Rens Bod.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2013.Description: xv, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199665211 (hbk.)
  • 0199665214 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.309 23
LOC classification:
  • AZ 231 B666n 2013
Contents:
Introduction: 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 -- Conclusion: Insights from the Humanaties that changed the world.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) AZ 231 B666n 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 4 1 Available 00000110644

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: 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 -- Conclusion: Insights from the Humanaties that changed the world.

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.

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