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

Certainly, you can read Maxwell through a double-glazed, rose-tinted pane of antiquarianism.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2021

Part of the problem with such exercises in antiquarianism and originalist literalism is that they miss the larger point about trying to translate 18th century legal principles and practices into modern terms.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2021

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

This honest spirit of antiquarianism, working on a most undiscerning intellect, seems to have kindled into a literary bigotry in his sateless delight of “the black-letter of our grandfathers’ days.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac