Measuring Time, Making History by Lynn Hunt Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of “modernity” as a new epoch in human history. Product details Paperback: 147 […]

When one veers across that vast sea of culture, from the Mesopotamians to the present, one will notice something that strikes modern secular man in the face: all cultures rise and fall with their religious cult and reflect their religious cult.  (image: The Parthenon in Athens / Wikimedia) Man is not a body of mass in motion with the aim […]