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Zusatztext ... dense and informative work. Klappentext Woolf details here the ways in which English men and women first became seriously aware of and interested in their own and the world's past. Previous works have focused exclusively on the writings of a small minority of historians, yet, through using a variety of manuscript and printed sources, this study examines the wider 'historical culture' within which historical and antiquarian studies could emerge. Zusammenfassung Woolf details here the ways in which English men and women first became seriously aware of and interested in their own and the world's past. This study examines the wider 'historical culture' within which historical and antiquarian studies could emerge. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Conventions List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Part I: The Past and the Present 1: Consciousness of Change 2: Old and New Part II: The Ancestral Past 3: The Cultivation of Heredity 4: The Genealogical Imagination Part III: The Tangible Past 5: Varieties of Antiquarianism 6: Seeing the Past 7: The Archaeological Economy Part IV: The Past Remembered 8: Ways of Remembering 9: Popular Beliefs about the Past 10: Oral Tradition Conclusion
