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Speaker: Peter Geimer

"Roman Senators with Sheriffs' Faces." Some Remarks on Anachronism

Research Seminar
According to historian Lucien Lefebvre in the field of history, anachronism is "the worst of all sins." It mixes up different periods where serious historical thinkers should place historical documents in their correct chronological context. But (how) is it possible to avoid overlaps of present and past? And is it desirable at all to forget one’s own interests and perspectives? [more]
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