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To browse Academia. This paper explores the intersection of history, culture, and time in the Middle Ages, emphasizing the need for a balance between quantitative analysis and qualitative understanding. It advocates for a historical approach that incorporates ethnological methods to better grasp the depths of the Middle Ages, rejecting reductionist views while also recognizing the systematic function of this period from the late Roman Empire through to the Industrial Revolution.
The author argues that understanding the Middle Ages is crucial for comprehending contemporary identity and society, positing that this era holds essential characteristics that shape modern collective memory. Atkinson has thus convincingly rediscovered what Terence Cave might have deemed a "cornucopian text" in his classic study of such bett er-known contemporaries as Erasmus, Rabelais, and Montaigne.
If she does not mention Cave, her select bibliography contains virtually all other pertinent primary and secondary sources. Th ere follow fi ve appendices documenting Vergil's career and sources, plus a list of references to the inventores topos in authors from Hyginus to Samuel Johnson and Diderot. A detailed index completes this volume. Th e book has been carefully produced, with only one typo caught by this reviewer page , line 1 , although it is odd-perhaps a Renaissance-humanistic prejudice-that "the middle ages" is not capitalized.
For its substantial and clearly-presented contribution to Renaissance culture and its transmission, this book belongs in every university library. But this will probably be the limit of most readers' common knowledge about Greenblatt and his new historicism. Several explanations can be offered for why Greenblatt's new historicism has not attracted the attention that it undoubtedly deserves.
In the first place, Greenblatt has never had very pronounced theoretical pretensions himself, and though one may find some theoretical meditations throughout his writings, he has not taken the trouble to develop a sustained and elaborate account of the claims of his new historicism. Furthermore, in the Anglo-Saxon world "historicism" still is a nomen nefandum that one immediately relates to all the horrible things that Popper so famously associated with the term.