When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, scholars of late Roman...
From the late-fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works - which often take surprisingly modern-sounding positions - grew from complex early modern debates about...
Usadas profusamente por Kant, rechazadas por Hegel, consideradas ya como una forma excelsa del arte literario, ya como enojosas interrupciones de la lectura, las notas al pie, que a menudo se emplean para polemizar con los colegas, han sido ellas mismas...