antiquarianism

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While the contextualist approach makes possible this detailed and rich type of understanding, there is a danger that contextualist historians might fall into the trap of antiquarianism.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Yet Sebald also extracts from this self-conscious antiquarianism something unaccountable: a mysterious contemporary stillness, an otherworldliness of the present.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

Attention to recreationist detail can bring about a sort of self-satisfied complacency in these shows and their viewers, dwelling in precious antiquarianism and mutually congratulating ourselves on our fact-checking.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2015

A recurrent theme is Dirda’s love of the dustier byways of antiquarianism and of the hours spent in used-book stores in pursuit of a rare find.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2015

A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)