24 May
“Every history is contemporary history.” - Benedetto Croce
From Leonard V. Rutgers, The Jews in Late Ancient Rome:
Studies such as Edward Said’s Orientalism or Martin Bernal’s Black Athena have recently illustrated the truism of Croce’s adage referred to above. While Said has argued that nineteenth-century imperialist concerns have affected negatively (and continue to influence negatively) much scholarly work on the cultures of the […]