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From Pilgrimage to History
John G. Demaray
其他書名
The Renaissance and Global Historicism
出版AMS Press, 2006
主題History / Historiography
ISBN04046234179780404623418
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RrBmAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Comparable to the literary publications of Julia Bolton Holloway and Donald Roy Howard, John G. Demaray's ground-breaking new study From Pilgrimage to History argues that modern global cultural historicism arose, not in the eighteenth century as is commonly held, but in the Renaissance. For a thousand years before Renaissance voyages of discovery revealed a vast, seemingly ever-expanding globe, medieval pilgrims traveled East beyond the realm of Latin culture to Jerusalem, the supposed geographic middle of the medieval earth. They carried back from the Holy Land accounts of the world as an ordered, iconographic-historical Book of God's Works, a volume that left its mark upon the form and content of world cultural historicism in the West. When, in a jolting geographic-ideological revolution in the Renaissance, Jerusalem was displaced from its central position in a disintegrating medieval World Book, a new global historicism arose under the influence of a new philosophy of empiricism and a flood of Early Modern literature on global discovery. against the old iconographic conceptions, altered the remnants of medieval pilgrimage iconography and produced transforming historicist methods and structures, focusing increasingly on an irregular, free-form globe teeming with strange peoples, societies, and civilizations. Among the Renaissance figures examined are Peter Heylyn, Richard Hakluyt, Francis Bacon, Abraham Ortelius, Samuel Purchas, and John Milton. Placed in the context of clashing iconographic and naturalist historicist traditions, their achievements and failings are also seen in the light of the very different secular, scientific, philosophic, and even religious world histories of later centuries. Ranging back to fourth-century pilgrimage accounts in the time of Constantine and forward to End-of-History announcements, Demaray's perspectives are wide, and include the examination of the conflicting views of Hegel, Marx, Engels, Roger Owen, Arnold Toynbee, and Francis Fukuyama, among others.