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- Title
Afterword: Shadows of the Past in Early Modern England.
- Authors
Woolf, Daniel
- Abstract
In this brief afterword, Daniel Woolf discusses some of the many ways-some addressed in the volume's other essays-in which the past interacted with the present in the form of what are here called "shadows." He compares modern and early modern notions of past, present, and future, He examines the sixteenth -and seventeenth-century ideas of history (as articulated by historians as well as their readers). He also offers observations on the more tangible elements of the past (antiquities, archaeological remains, and documents) that allowed contemporaries more direct access to their own and England's past. The changing importance of temporal precision is also addressed.
- Subjects
CHRONOLOGY; HISTORICAL chronology; PAST, The; CONTEMPORARY, The; FUTURE, The; HISTORY of material culture; EARLY modern history; BRITISH history sources
- Publication
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2013, Vol 76, Issue 4, p639
- ISSN
0018-7895
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1525/hlq.2013.76.4.639