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The thing is… obviously we missed out on the first part of this
poll, the collecting of the shortlist of historians in the first place.
~Caroline.
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Academic Study of Magic [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Friday, 11 November 2011 2:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] most important historian of the past
60 years
How
do we define who is important? If it is by the impact that they have had on
mainstream society it would be different to it having the greatest impact on
academic circles. Is it about how accurate, how first hand, how ground breaking
the historian was. Winston Churchill left his history of WWII which is
certainly an important document however skewed it is, it ranks with Julius
Caesar's Civil Wars as a record of an important period in world history- is
Churchill an important historian? or William Shirer who sifted through all of
the Nazi war records to produce his history? Which history has it been most
important to understand, that from the distant past or from the near past?
Which tells us more about ourselves?
Sorry
for all of the questions but I think naming which historian is important misses
the really interesting question of which historical study is the most
important.
DGM
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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:57:05 -0800
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> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] most important historian of the past
60 years
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> Aargh, Ted, your list isn't any easier to choose from! And do we choose
our friends, or the people whose work we think is most revolutionary and
ground-breaking?
>
> Sabina
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> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] most important historian of the past
60 years
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> Should we have our own section for historians of magic? here's my
shortlist
>
> Ioan Couliano
> Moshe Idel
> Frances Yates
> Richard Kiekhefer
> Stuart Clark
> Carlo Ginzburg
> Antoine Faivre
> Wouter Hanegraaff
> Joscelyn Godwin
> Margot Adler
> Ronald Hutton
> Robert Anton Wilson
>
> cheers,
> Ted Hand
> http://renaissancemagic.blogspot.com
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Caroline Tully
<[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> Subject: most important historian of the poast 60 years
>
> Could be fun
>
> http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/11/vote-most-important-historian-and-h
>
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>
> Caroline Tully.
>
> PhD Candidate
> Centre for Classics and Archaeology
> University of Melbourne
> Australia
> http://www.cca.unimelb.edu.au/