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| Von ganz wesentlicher Bedeutung für die Geschichtsforschung des Mittelalters war der Beitrag der beiden Amerikaner George Sarton und Lynn Thorndike, die das Burckhardtsche Renaissance - Konzept angriffen und als treue Anhänger der Idee eines linearen wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts in der Renaissance nicht ein Wiedererwachen der intellektuellen Kräfte der Menschheit sahen, sondern eine Ruhephase zwischen Mittelalter und Aufklärung, ja sogar ein Moment der Regression. 24 Daß diese Thesen eine Revolte in der Historiker - Gilde der Alten wie Neuen Welt hervorriefen , versteht sich von selbst; denn nach wie vor führten die meisten amerikanischen Mediävalisten die Argumente einer europäisch - amerikanischen „ cultural unity" auf, und sprachen immer wieder mit Stolz von dem gemeinsamen intellektuellen Erbe des Abendlandes, das nicht nur den Europäern allein gehören würde, wie es 1923 Charles Homer Haskins auf den Punkt brachte: „ Whether we look at Europe genetically as the source of our civilization, or pragmatically as a large part of the world in which we live, we cannot ignore the vital connections between Europe and America, their histories are ultimately but one." 25
[FN] 24 Siehe: G. Sarton: Introduction to the History of Science, Baltimore 1927 - 1948. 3 vols./ 5 parts; G. Sarton: Science in the Renaissance, in: J. W. Thompson/ G. Rowley/ F. Schevill/ G. Sarton: The Civilization of the Renaissance, Chicago 1929, S. 79; L. Thorndike: A History of Magic and Experimental Science, New York 1923 - 1958, 8 vols. Siehe ferner hierzu: Wallace K. Ferguson: The Renaissance in Historical Thought: Five Centuries of Interpretation, Boston/ New York 1948; H. R. Guggisberg: Jacob Burckhardt und Amerika, Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, vol. 13, 1968, S. 53 - 68. 25 Ch. H. Haskins: European History and American Scholarship, a. a. O., S. 215. |
A number of these works have become classics in their field on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, eg Henry Osborn Taylor's Medieval Mind (1911) or Charles Homer Haskins's Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (1927), not to speak of that unique and truly "unclassifiable" masterpiece of the old Henry Adams, Mont- Saint-Michel and Chartres (1913).
[...] Of particular importance was the American contribution to the history of medieval science, notably in the weighty volumes of George Sarton and Lynn Thorndike. Out of these works came a remarkably severe attack upon the Burckhardtian concept of the Renaissance. In their emphasis on the continuous and unbroken expansion of man's knowledge of nature, these American historians saw the Renaissance not as a new revival of intellectual forces but rather as a period of rest between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment, or even as a period of regression.1 This "revolt of the medievalists" against the established pattern of historical periodization was parallelled by similar attempts at re-orientation in Europe, [...] Indeed, we observe American medievalists again and again [FN] 1 George Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, 3 vols, in 5 parts, Baltimore, 1927-1948; Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science, 8 vols. New York, 1923-1958. ee especially Sarton's essay on "Science in the Renaissance", in JW Thompson, G. Rowley, F. Schevill, G. Sarton, The Civilisation of the Renaissance, Chicago, 1929, p. 79. Hans R. Guggisberg, "Jacob Burckhardt und Amerika", Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien 13 (1968),pp. 53-68. 4 Charles Homer Haskins, "European History and American Scholarship", American Historical Review 28, January 1923, p. 226. [S. 74] emphasizing the cultural unity of the Middle Ages in contrast to the diversity of the modem world. And in addition to this we find that the American medievalists of the 1920s and early 1930s were proudly conscious of the fact that the intellectual heritage of the Middle Ages belonged to them just as much as it belonged to the Europeans who seemed culturally closer to it. [S. 75] [...] agree with what Charles H. Haskins has already said in 1923: "Whether we look at Europe genetically as the source of our civilization, or pragmatically as a large part of the world [S. 76] in which we live, we cannot ignore the vital connections between Europe and America, their histories ultimately but one." 1 |
Übernahme mit Fußnoten; bei FN 25 wurde nicht aufgepasst beim Kopieren. Die Referenz lautet wie bei der übernommenen FN 19 auf Haskins S.215, sollte aber S.226 sein. In der Quelle ist dies richtig angegeben. |
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