The Birth of the Past

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309 Index Achaean League, 64, 65 Aemilius Paullus, 64 Aeneas, 164 Aeschylus, 57 Agamemnon, 51–52, 68 Agricola, Rudolph, 175–76, 177, 193 Agrippa, Cornelius, 181 Alban, St., 129 Alciato, Andrea, 186–87 Alcibiades, 30, 56, 58 Alexander the Great, 63, 204, 211 allegory, 93, 113, 114, 150, 159, 160–63 alphabetic literacy, 31, 34 Alypius, 84, 160 Ambrose, St., 92–93, 94, 103 Ameinocles, 52 anachronism, 3–6, 31, 78, 220, 229, 271, 276–78; in antiquity, 5–6, 22–23, 56, 71, 146, 178; birth of, 8, 144–52; and historicism, 7–8, 209; history of, 3–4; in Renaissance, 4, 8, 10–11, 140, 144–52, 191, 209, 264–65, 271, 273; types of, 145–46; and Whig history, 22. See also under Augustine of Hippo, St.; Petrarca, Francesco Anaximander, 34–35 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 2–3 antiquarianism, 13, 182, 209, 261, 273–75 Antony, 118, 156 Apelles, 139, 142, 170 Aquinas, St. Thomas, 231 Archimedes, 139 Arion, 45, 48, 49 Aristarchus of Samothrace, 146 Aristotle (Aristotelianism), 30–31, 36, 40, 58, 88, 138, 174, 175, 184, 185, 192, 193, 231, 238, 241–42 ars dictaminis, 147 ars historica, 179–82, 188–89, 191–92 Astyages, 46 atavism, 140, 182 Auerbach, Erich, 18, 21, 23, 30, 113, 132, 227; and foregrounding, 21, 28–29; and separation of styles, 21, 23 Augustine of Hippo, St., 9–10, 79–116, 171, 210; and anachronism, 101, 111; and attentio, 84–85, 100; at Carthage, 89; at Cassiciacum, 94; and Cicero, 89–90; and confessing, 82–83, 95–96, 101, 104, 110; conversions of, 89; and distentio animi, 85, 100, 110–11; and Donatists, 96, 106; and figural, 10, 80, 102, 112–16, 118, 125, 127, 128, 133; and Gnosticism, 88; at Hippo, 96; and history, 110–11; and Incarnation, 87, 89, 105–6, 109, 115–16; and Manichaeism, 90–92, 93, 96–97, 110; and memory, 98–101; at Milan, 91–92, 94; and Monica, 89, 92, 93, 94–96; and the now, 83–87, 88–103, 105, 107, 112, 115, 116, 133; at Ostia, 94; and Parousia, 10, 87, 89, 103, 105, 109, 112, 114–15, 118, 125, 127–28, 133; and Paul, 87, 88–89, 93–94, 95–96, 97–98, 114; and pilgrimage, 85, 89, 94, 101, 108; and Platonism, 88, 91–93, 98, 99, 103, 110; and prayer, 81–83, 98–99; and radical reflexivity, 85, 95, 105, 110; and “real” vs. “historical” events, 86–87, 102; and sack of Rome, 104–7, 109, 111, 116; and sæculum, 10, 79–80, 81, 103–12, 133; and scripture, 87, 101–2, 104, 109, 111, 112, 116; and tempora christiana, 103–6, 109, 111; and “the” past, 86, 133; and time, 83–87, 99–103, 105, 110–11. See also Petrarca, Francesco: and Augustine 310 Index Augustine of Hippo, St., works of: “Against Fortunatus,” 96–97; City of God, 10, 81, 86, 87, 104–11, 112, 114, 115, 116, 133; Confessions, 9, 81–87, 89–96, 98–103, 104, 105, 110, 111, 159–60, 170, 271; Contra Faustinum, 114; De musica, 97; De ordine, 94; De pulchro et apto, 91–92; De quaestionibus ad Simplicianum, 97–98, 114; De sermone Domini in monte, 97; Retractationes, 95 Augustus Caesar, 104, 118, 121, 126, 127, 140, 153 autobiography, literary genre of, 271 Averroës, 139 Aztecs, 260, 262. See also under Montaigne, Michel de Babylon, 117 Bacon, Francis, 207 Barkan, Leonard, 28, 138, 140, 141, 147–48, 149, 158, 191 Bartolus of Sassoferrato, 186, 222–23, 226 “Battle of the Books,” 11, 224–26 Bede, Venerable, 126–32; on Ambrosius Aurelianus , 131; on battle of Badon Hill, 131; on battle of Chester, 130–31; and chronology, 131–32; and figural, 10, 80–81, 119, 126, 127–32, 133; life of, 126–27; and Parousia, 128, 129–31; and sæculum, 126, 132; on St. Augustine of Canterbury, 129–30 Bentley, Richard, 225–26 Bernardino de Mendoza, 218 Blois, Estates General of, 218 Bodin, Jean, 11, 144, 185, 188–98, 210; and analysis, 192, 195; and climate theory, 196, 198; and commonplaces, 185, 192–94, 195–96, 197; and hierarchy of historians, 196; and idea of sovereignty, 196; and reading, 192; and three parts of history, 195; and unity of history, 194–98 Bodin, Jean, works of: ars historica, 188–89, 191–92; Juris universi distributio, 189–90; Methodus, 188–98, 210–11; Six livres de la république, 197 Boileau, Nicholas, 224, 226 Bolgar, R. R., 174 Bolingbroke, Lord...