Talk:Antiquarian
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The list of antiquarians is probably a bit redundant given the category "antiquarians" which contains essentially the same names. I am, however, still a little too nervous to go ahead and delete it. Can anyone give me a tiny push? --PRiis 03:10, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- The reason it seems redundant is because this page is missing the negative connotation of "antiquarian", as identified by Momigliano and others, namely the fascination with remnants of a particular time period without any attempts to connect these to the larger historical whole. These are the people one often meets at re-enactments, who have the uniform of a Civil War soldier down pat and all the troop movements down pat, for example, but dont know what circumstances in Europe brought so many Irish and Germans into the Union army.
--Rck 05:06, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
Why is there no mention of the origin of the word?
