Resonances

Historical Essays on Continuity and Change

Edited by Nils Holger Petersen Edited by Eyolf Ostrem Edited by Andreas Bucker

Book cover: Resonances

Extent: 276, 276 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Ritus et Artes

Series volume number: 5

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(June 2011)

ISBN: 9782503534930

Price: $50.00

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Continuity and change enclose a problem field that is fundamental to the interpretation of historical material. On the one hand the notions that are necessary to perceive the historical account as a narrative: continuity, tradition, constancy, consistency, identity; on the other those that provide an impetus or drive to that account: change, innovation, rupture, or discontinuity. Resonances: Historical Essays on Continuity and Change explores the historiographical question of the modes of interrelation between these motifs in historical narratives. The essays in the collection attempt to realize theoretical consciousness through historical narrative ‘in practice’, by discussing selected historical topics from Western cultural history, within the disciplines of history, literature, visual arts, musicology, archaeology, philosophy, and theology. The title Resonances indicates the overall perspective of the book: how connotations of past meanings may resonate through time, in new contexts, assuming new meanings without surrendering the old.

  • Edited by Nils Holger Petersen
  • Edited by Eyolf Ostrem
  • Edited by Andreas Bucker