Past sense: studies in medieval and early modern European history

Review

"There are many layers to this insightful, learned, and thought-provoking book. Taken individually, each essay is a masterful piece of research in the field of premodern political thought lato sensu and represents some of the methodological challenges and potentialities of intellectual history as a specific approach to people, ideas, and texts. Taken as a whole, this collection provides several important contributions to the wider historical and historiographical debate."
Stefania Tutino, University of California, Los Angeles. In: The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 88, No. 2 (June 2016), pp. 416-417.


Product Description

The twenty studies collected in this volume lead from technical investigations in late medieval and early modern history through reflection on the nature of historical knowledge to a break with historicism and a broad perspective on the history of Europe.

About the Author

Constantin Fasolt is the Karl J. Weintraub Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago. He obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1981. He is the author of Council and Hierarchy: The Political Thought of William Durant the Younger (Cambridge, 1991) and The Limits of History (Chicago, 2004).