{"title":"Historical Cases: Contextualizing the Self","authors":"Maud R. Webster","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813066844.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066844.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 explores letters and images that situate selves and events in time, developing the themes of literacy and material agency from Chapter 1, and identity-formation from Chapter 2. Jewish and Catholic approaches to time and events past are then discussed, followed by a psychoanalysis and panorama of present-day period-awareness and embodied engagements such as re-enactments. Topics discussed include the following: the impact of conflict on the will to historicize in writing: the cases of the Aspö rune-stone in Sweden, the American Civil War aftermath, and the Greek War of Independence; writing as creation and as self-therapy; activated memory rather than historicizing records, and the weight of names, words, and the Word divine; visual reifications of time in Italian art: the cases of Angelico’s and Caravaggio’s annunciations; space and the absences signalled by art and architecture: the case of Mary’s house divided; present-day receptions, conceptions, and needs revealed: the cases of Gettysburg, Azincourt, and others; and periodization and the self in search of orientation in time: the cases of Pythagoras and Paulinus.","PeriodicalId":185741,"journal":{"name":"Heritage and the Existential Need for History","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114312733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Figures","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185741,"journal":{"name":"Heritage and the Existential Need for History","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128217625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archaeological Cases:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185741,"journal":{"name":"Heritage and the Existential Need for History","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125007204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical Cases:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185741,"journal":{"name":"Heritage and the Existential Need for History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131245088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185741,"journal":{"name":"Heritage and the Existential Need for History","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122629396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: About This Book","authors":"Maud R. Webster","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813066844.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066844.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is a presentation of the book, as a history of some of the uses of history that have been documented in the Western world across several millennia. It discusses existential matter, methods, aims and layout, theorizes the nature of understanding and of explanation, and situates the fields of classics and of heritage studies.","PeriodicalId":185741,"journal":{"name":"Heritage and the Existential Need for History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125796004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185741,"journal":{"name":"Heritage and the Existential Need for History","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131645497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INDEX","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9ghc.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185741,"journal":{"name":"Heritage and the Existential Need for History","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134374351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"By Way of a Conclusion: The Heart of the Matter","authors":"Maud R. Webster","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813066844.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066844.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This brief chapter shores up the strands discussed in the book in timeline, being, and transience and brings them together to bear upon the heart of the matter, the need for history, in terms of its very essence, function, and framework.","PeriodicalId":185741,"journal":{"name":"Heritage and the Existential Need for History","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126411890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archaeological Cases: Blood from Stone","authors":"Maud R. Webster","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813066844.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066844.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 investigates sociopolitical needs and precedents for history expressed through buildings--archaeological and architectural sites where needs for a documented past can be seen as a driving force behind monuments. Topics covered include the following: the use of tombs to claim land in prehistory: Bronze Age cases from Denmark, Sardinia (Italy) and Greece; a brief history of relevant aspects of the Greek “Dark Age”; a discussion of the significance of the dead body and present-day tombs of “the unknown soldier”; the case of Abraham’s land claim in Genesis; monumentalized land claims in protohistory: the Iron Age case of the Argive Heraion in Greece, and a discussion the theme of fabrication; the proactive re-use of old monuments in ancient and medieval times: the cases of Constantinople and Rome, and a discussion of the nature and meaning of spoliation (and of quotation); present-day “readings” of historic spolia-buildings: the cases of the churches of Ayia Triada/Merbaka and the Little Metropolis in Greece; and a discussion of metaphorical “play-worlds” and their meaning for human existence.","PeriodicalId":185741,"journal":{"name":"Heritage and the Existential Need for History","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125720248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}