If ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, an
This book examines the conceptual and temporal frames through which modern Western historiography has linked itself to classical antiquity. In doing so, it arti
Focusing on the sociolinguistic history of Germanic languages, the current volume challenges the traditional teleological approach of language historiography. T
History from Loss challenges the common thought that "history is written by the winners" and explores how history-makers in different times and places across th