Chapter 68
This invention, perfected by Gutenberg, enabled the wide circulation of literary works.
What is the printing press?
This ancient Greek is often called the “Father of History.”
Who is Herodotus?
Christians adopted this sacred text as the first part of their scripture.
What is the Old Testament?
This 18th-century age saw the rise of critical history based on evidence and verification.
What is The Enlightenment?
The spread of vernacular Bibles challenged this institution’s control of scholarship.
What is the Catholic Church?
Ancient peoples first marked time using these natural events.
What are celestial cycles?
Early monks preserved classical learning through this practice.
What is copying manuscripts?
Boorstin highlights this French historian’s critical method as reshaping our view of historical truth.
Who is Voltaire?
This English playwright’s works became a cornerstone of world literature.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The keeping of records by this civilization along the Nile became one of humanity’s earliest historical archives.
What is Egypt?
This bishop of Hippo’s City of God shaped the Christian philosophy of history.
Who is St. Augustine?
This German historian established history as an academic discipline through rigorous methods.
Who is Leopold von Ranke?
This man’s Don Quixote mocked old chivalric ideals and helped found the modern novel.
Who is Miguel de Cervantes?
This Greek historian emphasized factual reporting over storytelling.
Who is Thucydides?
The Church’s annual cycle of holy days and festivals was known by this name.
What is the liturgical calendar?
The rise of national consciousness led historians to ask not only what happened but also what this did for this entity.
What is the nation-state?
The rediscovery of this language helped reintroduce classical learning to the West.
What is Greek?
Boorstin describes history’s emergence as a shift from myth to this kind of explanation.
What is empirical or factual explanation?
Augustine’s view of time emphasized this internal, subjective experience over cyclical patterns.
What is psychological time?
This new discipline emerged as historians began studying ordinary lives and material culture.
What is social history / anthropology?