{"product_id":"the-meaning-of-history","title":"The Meaning of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHenri-Irénée Marrou\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spirited effort\u003c\/b\u003e to free history and historians from a positivism-induced torpor, \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of History\u003c\/i\u003e offers a stirring rebuke to the gnostic, propagandistic, or technocratic tendencies of modern historical methods. The real historian, Henri-Irénée Marrou asserts, is aware of his finitude and “accepts with simplicity the fact that he is not God,” and thus “acquires a keen sense of the complexity of being and of the situations of man, in all their tragic ambivalence.” History, for its part, is simply “the knowledge of man’s past.” Anchoring his text to these two fundamental definitions, Marrou offers a philosophical introduction to the study of history which addresses such critical questions as: Can we know the past “objectively”? What is the role of documents in understanding? How does the personality of the historian affect the validity of the historical narrative? Can history be true?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs there any place left for history in this disordered world? \u003c\/i\u003e(H\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eenri-Irénée Marrou)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSuccessfully articulating the place for history and the purpose for the historian in a “disordered world,” \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of History\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging enlargement of mankind’s self-understanding \u003ci\u003evis-à-vis\u003c\/i\u003e its bewilderingly complex past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenri-Irénée Marrou \u003c\/b\u003e(1904–1977) was one of the pre-eminent French Catholic historians of the twentieth century. Specializing in early Christianity and the philosophy of history, he taught at the universities of Nancy, Montpellier, and Lyon, and held the chair of the History of Christianity at the Sorbonne from 1945 to 1975. In addition to \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of History\u003c\/i\u003e, his works in English include \u003ci\u003eTime and Timeliness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA History of Education in Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1952826931\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100032655727,"sku":"978-1952826931","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--5235.jpg?v=1781124687","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/the-meaning-of-history","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}