{"id":6113,"date":"2012-08-09T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2012-08-09T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:05:22","slug":"from-history-in-the-comic-mode-a-festschrift-for-caroline-walker-bynum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2012\/08\/from-history-in-the-comic-mode-a-festschrift-for-caroline-walker-bynum.html","title":{"rendered":"From “History in the Comic Mode,” a festschrift for Caroline Walker Bynum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The point of writing history is not\u2026\u00a0 somehow to cleanse ourselves, as it were, of the taint of the past\u2013the humanist\/Reformation\/Enlightenment project of exposing the past as past and cordoning it off behind the fence of anachronism.\u00a0 Rather, it is to allow ourselves still to be touched by the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2013Bruce Holsinger and Rachel Fulton Brown; via Millinerd<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The point of writing history is not\u2026\u00a0 somehow to cleanse ourselves, as it were, of the taint of the past\u2013the humanist\/Reformation\/Enlightenment project of exposing the past as past and cordoning it off behind the fence of anachronism.\u00a0 Rather, it is to allow ourselves still to be touched by the past. \u2013Bruce Holsinger and Rachel Fulton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139,79,19,138,85,22],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-caroline-walker-bynum","tag-moral-memories-of-the-past","tag-suspicion-of-traditions-so-new-wave","tag-the-endarkenment","tag-the-retro-future-is-ours-comrade","tag-turn-your-watch-back-about-a-hundred-thousand-years"],"yoast_head":"\nFrom "History in the Comic Mode," a festschrift 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