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On 'modern Historical Consciousness' -- Continuity And Change In Justifications For History -- 1: Classical History Between Epic And Rhetoric -- Introduction -- Genealogy, Ethnography, And Historical Consciousness -- Rhetoric, Purpose, Truth -- Useful And Pleasurable History -- From Greek To Roman Historiography -- Philosophy, Poetry, History: A Greek In Rome -- Roman Historiography In The Late Republic -- History Under Monarchy -- Pre- And Anti-christian Influences 2: History, Faith, Fortuna -- Introduction -- Classical-christian Fusion -- Christianity And Judaism -- Early Christian Historiography -- Christian Philosophy Of History -- On Causation: Determinism And Human Agency -- 3: The 'middle Age' -- Introduction -- Annals And Ancestry -- Exemplarity, Allegory, And The Presence Of The Past -- Periodization And The Conceptualization Of Change -- Theology, Religious Hermeneutics, And History As Communion -- Socio-economic Change And The Function Of Genealogies -- History And Developments In Political Identity -- 'others' Present And Past 4: Renaissances And Reformations -- Introduction -- Re-encounters -- Romans, Greeks, Goths -- Developments In Source Criticism? -- Changed Circumstances, Contested Purposes -- The Return Of Similitudo Temporum -- Sixteenth-century French Historiography -- Modern Contextualization? -- Montaigne -- Church, State, And Historianship: A Comparative Perspective -- Ecclesiastical History And Source Criticism -- History In The Scientific Seventeenth Century -- 5: Society, Nature, Emancipation -- Introduction -- Prelude: Bolingbroke And Vico -- The French Enlightenment -- The Scottish Enlightenment The German Enlightenment And Early Romanticism -- Hegel -- Marx -- 6: Nationalism, Historicism, Crisis -- Introduction -- Nationalism, Romanticism, Whiggery -- Historicism And Developmental Thought -- Alternatives To The Dominant German Model In The 1860s -- Reactions To Historicism -- New Philosophies Of Historical 'neutrality' From The Later Ni