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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xix*Abbreviations, pg. xxiii*Introduction, pg. 3*Chapter 1. Basic Patterns of Mimetic Action in Greek Thought, pg. 5*Chapter 2. Assimilation of Mimetic Doctrines with Old Testament Theology, pg. 32*Chapter 3. Mimesis as a Strategy of Historical Progress: The Patristic Stage of the Classical Tradition, pg. 49*Introduction, pg. 117*Chapter 4. "Christ in Us, Moving Toward The Father": Paschasius Radbertus's View of History, pg. 121*Chapter 5. Mimetic Principles of Church Government: Hincmar of Rheims, pg. 136*Chapter 6. Summary and Anticipation: The Transit of Jesus, pg. 162*Chapter 7. Strategic Reorientations, pg. 172*Chapter 8. Thomas Aquinas's Recapitulation Theory of Tradition, pg. 178*Chapter 9. Toward a New Theory of Progress by Augmentation, pg. 200*Chapter 10. Challenges to the Mimetic Tradition, pg. 229*Chapter 11. Continuity of Mimetic Strategies in the Sixteenth Century, pg. 247*Chapter 12. Continuity of Mimetic Strategies in the Enlightenment, pg. 255*Chapter 13. Mimesis by Augmentation in two Theories of Historical Development, pg. 284*Chapter 14. Four Lutheran Reconstitutions of Mimesis As an Historical Strategy, pg. 310*Chapter 15. The Art of Revolution and the Nineteenth Century, pg. 337*Chapter 16. Epilogue: On the longue duree Of Mimesis, pg. 391*Appendix. Thinking Mimetically About History: Some Bibliographical Orientations, pg. 399*Index, pg. 427