TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,Elizabeth A.
TI  - History, theory, text: historians and the linguistic turn 
SN  - 0674015169 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - D13 .C5827 2004
U1  - 907/.2 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Historiography
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Christian literature, Early
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references p. ([193]-318) and index; 1; Defending and lamenting history --; 2; Anglo-American philosophy and the historians --; 3; Language and structures --; 4; The territory of the historians --; 5; Narrative and history --; 6; The new intellectual history --; 7; Texts and contexts --; 8; History, theory, and premodern texts
N2  - "In this work, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Elizabeth Clark argues for a renewal of the study of premodern western history through engagement with the kings of critical methods that have transformed other humanities disciplines in recent decades." "History, Theory, Text provides a user-friendly survey of crucial developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century debates surrounding history, philosophy, and critical theory. Beginning with the "noble dream" of "history as it actually happened" in the works of some nineteenth-century historians, Clark goes on to review Anglo-American philosophies of history, schools of twentieth-century historiography, structuralism, the debate over narrative history, the changing fate of the history of ideas, and the impact of interpretive anthropology and literary theory on current historical scholarship. In a concluding chapter she offers some practical case studies to illustrate how attending to theoretical consideratios can illuminate the study of premodernity."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -