Historiam videre
Zrak, svědectví a zkušenost v dějepisectví Jednoty bratrské (1600-1660)
55 USD
Add to
Add to
When J.A. Komensky came to the term historia in his Pan-Sophic Dictionary, he began with its etymology: „The word is derived from historeo vidim, hledim. Actually, it is what one has seen with one's own eyes.“ But isn't history something that by definition has passed away, and thus can hardly be accessible to sense cognition? In the early modern period, such maxims were not only conceivable but explicitly proclaimed. Far from being a mere poetic turn of phrase. It was a whole set of textual, epistemological, and graphic practices through which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historiography profiled itself as a model empirical procedure for the production and representation of knowledge. And although the historiography of the Unity of the Brethren is usually seen as a typical example of a confessionally distinct production that resigned itself to the basic historiographical imperative to write about history sine ira et studio and uncritically defended the partisan interests of the community it served, in the context of empirical epistemology and its central categories it comes into a different light.
