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BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. G. Barraclough, “Medium Aevum: Some Reflections
on Mediaeval History and on the Term 'The Middle Ages',”
in History in a Changing World (Oxford, 1956). O. Brunner,


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Neue Wege der Verfassungs—und Sozialgeschichte, 2nd
enlarged ed. (Göttingen, 1968); review article of the 1st ed.
by F. Braudel in Annales (1959). A. Dove, “Der Streit um
das Mittelalter,” Historische Zeitschrift, 116 (1916), 209-30.
W. Freund, Modernus und andere Zeitbegriffe des Mittel-
alters
(Münster, 1957). D. Gerhard, “Periodization in
European History,” American Historical Review, 61 (1956),
900-13; idem, “Regionalismus und ständisches Wesen als
ein Grundthema Europäischer Geschichte,” Alte und Neue
Welt in Vergleichender Geschichtsbetrachtung
(Göttingen,
1962); idem, “Regionalism,” Studies in Diplomatic History
in Memory of D. B. Horn
(London, 1970). O. Halecki, The
Limits and Divisions of European History
(New York, 1950).
H. Heimpel, “Ueber die Epochen der mittelalterlichen
Geschichte,” Der Mensch in seiner Gegenwart (Göttingen,
1957). J. Huizinga, “De Taak der Cultuurgeschiedenis,”
Verzamelde Werken, Vol. 7 (Haarlem, 1950); trans. as “The
Task of Cultural History,” in Men and Ideas (New York,
1959). W. Kaegi, Historische Meditationen, Vol. I (Zurich,
1942), “Voltaire und der Zerfall des Christlichen Ges-
chichtsbildes.” A. Klempt, Die Säkularisierung der Uni-
versalhistorischen Auffassung. Zum Wandel des Geschichts-
denkens im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert
(Göttingen, 1960), with
extensive bibliography. W. Rehm, Der Untergang Roms im
abendländischen Denken
(Leipzig, 1930; reprint Darmstadt,
1966). E. Troeltsch, Der Historismus und seine Probleme
(Tübingen, 1922), esp. Ch. IV, “Ueber den Aufbau der
Europaeischen Kulturgeschichte.” L. Varga, Das Schlagwort
vom Finsteren Mittelalter
(Vienna, 1932). E. Walder, “Zur
Geschichte und Problematik des Epochenbegriffs Neuzeit
und zum Problem der Periodisierung der Europäischen
Geschichte,” Festgabe Hans von Greyerz (Bern, 1967). E. M.
Zhukov, The Periodization of World History, XIe Congrès
International des Sciences Historiques (1960), Rapports, Vol.
I, and Actes du Congrès (discussion); cf. E. Werner, in
Annales (1962), pp. 930-39.

For the relation of antiquity to the Middle Ages, the
following collections are helpful. F. Havighurst, ed., The
Pirenne Thesis. Analysis, Criticism, and Revision,
Problems
of European Civilization (Boston, 1958). P. E. Hübinger, ed.
(Wege der Forschung, Darmstadt): Kulturbruch oder
Kulturkontinuität im Übergang von der Antike zum Mittel-
alter,
Vol. 201 (1967); Zur Frage der Periodengrenze zwischen
Altertum und Mittelalter,
Vol. 51 (1969); Zur Bedeutung und
Rolle des Islam für den Übergang vom Altertum zum Mittel-
alter,
Vol. 202 (1969).

Especially for the Renaissance, see the following discus-
sions and collections. D. Cantimori and E. F. Jacob, “La
Periodizzazione dell'Età del Rinascimento nella Storia
d'Italia e in quella d'Europa,” Comitato Internazionale di
Scienze Storiche. X Congresso Internazionale di Scienze
Storiche
(Florence, 1955), Relazioni, IV, 306-63, Atti,
536-48. K. H. Dannenfeldt, ed., The Renaissance. Medieval
or Modern?,
Problems of European Civilization (Boston,
1959). T. Helton, ed., The Renaissance. A Reconsideration
of the Theories and Interpretations of the Age
(Madison,
1961). L. Febvre, “Comment Jules Michelet inventa la
Renaissance,” in Pour une Histoire à part entière (Paris,
1962). W. K. Ferguson, The Renaissance in Historical
Thought
(Boston, 1948). D. Hay, The Italian Renaissance
in its Historical Background
(Cambridge, 1961). J. Huizinga,
“Het Probleem der Renaissance,” Verzamelde Werken, Vol.
4 (Haarlem, 1949); trans. as “The Problem of the Renais-
sance,” Men and Ideas (New York, 1959). W. Kaegi, Jacob
Burckhardt,
Vol. 3 (Basel, 1956), Ch. VIII. T. E. Mommsen,
Petrarch's Conception of the Dark Ages, in Medieval and
Renaissance Studies
(New York, 1959). E. Panofsky, Renais-
sance and Renascences in Western Art
(Stockholm, 1960).

DIETRICH GERHARD

[See also Classification of the Sciences; Cycles; Evolution-
ism; Historicism; Historiography; Historiography, Influence
of Ideas on Ancient Greek; Periodization in Literary
History; Positivism; Progress; Renaissance Literature;
Theodicy.]