[publicclassics] Now in paperback: Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World / Baines, et al (eds)

[Val Hall]

We are pleased to announce the publication in paperback of

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*Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World*

*Edited by John Baines (University of Oxford), Henriette van der Blom
(University of Birmingham), Yi Samuel Chen (University of Oxford) and Tim
Rood (University of Oxford)*

ISBN (Paperback) 9781800500266

Price  £35 / $48

(also available in hardback and ePDF formats)

Pages 402, 32 figures, colour and black and white

Book webpage: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/historical-consciousness/

*Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World* offers
linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in
ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading
experts in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Sinology, Biblical Studies,
Classics, and Maya Studies.

This volume addresses crucial questions in current scholarship on
historical consciousness and historiography. These questions include the
formation of different traditions and the manifold uses of the past in
particular socio-political contexts or circumstances; the ways in which
these traditions and these types of cultural memory informed or contributed
to the rise of more formal modes of historiography; interactions between
formal modes of historiography and other traditions of historical
consciousness during their transmission; and the implications of such
interactions for cultural heritage, collective memory, and later
understandings of history.

By taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume situates the rise of
formal modes of historiography within a larger context of developments in
historical consciousness and a wider web of intercommunicating discourses.
It also uncovers intellectual processes, literary mechanisms, and social
institutions involved in the construction of history. During the
construction of ancient historiographies, while many local traditions
persisted, some ancients gradually went beyond the temporal and spatial
limitations of their local traditions, arriving at a more extended and
unified timespan, a wider geographical region, and a common origin.


Valerie Hall
Equinox Publishing Ltd
www.equinoxpub.com
mail: vhall at equinoxpub.com
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