The Traditional Forms of the "History of the Present" from Herodotus to Humanist Historians
Document title: The Traditional Forms of the "History of the Present" from Herodotus to Humanist Historians
Journal: Historia da historiografia
Database: CLASE
System number: 000419934
ISSN: 1983-9928
Authors: 1
Institutions: 1Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza. España
Year:
Season: Dic
Number: 10
Pages: 165-182
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, teórico
English abstract The present article revolves around the interest in contemporary history from ancient writers to humanist historians. Its objective, which forms part of a broader purpose devoted to elucidating the characteristics of the so-called History of the Present, is to examine the forms this interest has traditionally adopted. In this way, we put for consideration the following hypothesis: from classical historians onwards, the concern with contemporary history was always considered a hard and inevitable task to be undertaken, since it affected rulers and living people. Nevertheless, the long-standing doctrine of history as memory of events for centuries had prevented historians from facing paradoxes that result from the interest in contemporary past; in other words, how can historians confront the political uses, memories and demands of public opinion to deal with the recent past without jeopardizing historical truth?
Disciplines: Historia
Keyword: Historiografía,
Historia contemporánea,
Historiadores,
Paradojas,
Tucídides,
Cicerón, Marco Tulio
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