A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present

by Rens Bod

Book Overview

Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present. There are already historical studies of musicology, logic, art history, linguistics, and historiography, but this volume gathers these, and many other humanities disciplines, into a single coherent account.

Its central theme is the way in which scholars throughout the ages and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198758391
• ISBN13: 9780198758396
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"