Conversations about History. Volume 2 / Howard Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Howard, 1965- author.

Series:

Ideas Roadshow conversations ; Volume 18.

Ideas Roadshow Collections ; Volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, ON : Open Agenda Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

Conversations About History, Volume 2, is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading historians with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the different ideas and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. The following experts have participated in this Collection: 1. Linda Colley, the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University;2. John Elliott, Professor of Modern History at University of Oxford;3. Richard Janko, Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan;4. Maria Mavroudi, Professor of History at UC Berkeley;5. Jay Rubenstein, Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Premodern World at the University of Southern California.Howard Burton is the creator and host of Ideas Roadshow and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Textual Note

Preface

Apocalypse Then

The First Crusade

A conversation with Jay Rubenstein

Introduction

I. Becoming a Medievalist

II. Guibert of Nogent

III. Armies of Heaven

IV. Considering Impact

V. Moving On

Continuing the Conversation

The Derveni Papyrus

A conversation with Richard Janko

I. A Great Discovery

II. Derveni Details

III. An Ancient Culture War

IV. Rose-coloured Glasses?

V. Summing Up

The Passionate Historian

A conversation with John Elliott

I. Beginnings

II. In Search of Objectivity

III. Past and Present

IV. Circumventing Obstacles

V. Doing History

VI. The Power of Imagination

VII. Decline

VIII. The Impact of Technology

IX. Going Global

X. History's Due

Constitutional Investigations

A conversation with Linda Colley

I. Personal History

II. Constitutions, Part 1

III. Constitutions, Part 2

IV. Implications and Applications

V. Marching Onwards

Byzantium

Beyond the Cliché

A conversation with Maria Mavroudi

I. Becoming A Byzantinist

II. Historical Background

III. The High-School Narrative

IV. Recovering Truth

V. Building Knowledge

VI. Annotated Discoveries

VII. A Translational Discovery

VIII. Arrows of Causality

IX. Decline

X. Extracting Meaning

XI. Ever-Moving Targets.

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ISBN:

9781771701853

1771701854

9781771701563

1771701560

OCLC:

1255234037