Bod, Rens
'A New History of the Humanities' offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present in the English language. Rens Bod is professor of Computational and Digital Humanities.
The central theme of the book is the way in which scholars throughout the ages and in virtually all civilizations have sought to identify patterns in texts, art, music, languages, literature, and the past. What rules can we apply if we wish to determine whether a tale about the past is trustworthy? By what criteria are we to distinguish consonant from dissonant musical intervals? A New History of the Humanities extend the original Dutch book (De Vergeten Wetenschappen) with numerous humanists from all over the world.
A New History of the Humanities. The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present
- Rens Bod
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
- ISBN 978 01 99 66521 1