From Pilgrimage to History: The Renaissance and Global Historicism. Ams Studies in the Renaissance, 41.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag mit minimalen Randl�ren, sonst ein gutes Exemplar / dust jacket with marginal tears, otherwise a good copy. - In this groundbreaking study, John G. Demaray argues that global cultural historicism first arose, not in the eighteenth century as is commonly held, but in the Renaissance, out of the biblical and pilgrimage iconography of the medieval �Book of God�s Works.� Demaray examines how pilgrimage world outlooks impacted the geographic historiography of Christopher Columbus, Peter Heylyn, Walter Ralegh, Richard Hakluyt, Francis Bacon, and Abraham Ortelius. He also explores the neglected empirical historicist �method� devised by Samuel Purchas and imitated in the writing of John Milton. Perspectives in the book are wide and range from fourth-century accounts in the time of Constantine to the conflicting views of, among others, Hegel, Marx, Arnold Toynbee, and Francis Fukuyama. / CONTENTS Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1 Walter Ralegh�s Historicist Inheritance God's Providential World and Marvelous El Dorado 2. "High And Rare Delight" Spiritual Geographic History and the Dislocation of the East A. Conflicted World Visions B. Columbus, the East, and Millennial Jerusalem 3. Richard Hakluyt and the Confusion of Sources 4. World History Revised Francis Bacon and Abraham Ortelius 5. Skepticism and Faith Samuel Purchas, John Donne, and the Composition of Purchas his pilgrimage 6. Toward a Humanist Global Historicism Purchas and World Historical Discourse 7. Empirical and Prophetic Visions Milton and the Strands of Renaissance Historiography 8. The Prophetic Universal History of Paradise Lost Paradoxical Triumphs and Transcendent Designs 9. An Overview On "The End of History" and the Patterned Forms of World Historicism: Hegel, Marx, Globalization, and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780404623418