"Where we start our story shapes what we see."
YES
An excellent statement. If we fail to look back past the 1800 horizon, we condemn ourselves to a collective myopia in which our current world seems inevitable and the future already settled.
Defamiliarization through deep historical awareness!
The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present.
Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies:
www.rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...
