Contents -- PREFACE -- 1. Introduction: Looking Backward -- 2. Greece -- Myth History -- Pragmatic History -- Antiquities -- Method -- 3. Rome -- From the Founding -- History and Rhetoric -- Political History -- Byzantine Extensions -- 4. The Judeo-Christian Tradition -- Historical Mission -- Human History -- City of God -- Spirit and Letter -- 5. The Middle Ages -- Barbarian History -- Chornicles -- Universal History -- 6. The Renaissance -- The Sense of History -- The Idea of History -- Political History -- 7. The Reformation -- Tradtion Restored -- Confessional History -- National History -- 8. The Science of History -- The Art of History -- The Method of Histor y -- Universal History -- 9. The Enlightenment -- The Uses of History -- Philosophical History -- The Idea of Progress -- 10. Conclusion: Looking Forward -- Select Bibliography -- Index.