The role of chance in historiography is a major question for the analysis of cultural transformations. Its main subject are the transformations of contingentia itself, which has undergone substantial changes in its mythical forms (as Tyche or Fortuna) as well in its historical expressions in philosophy, theology, politics, sciences, literature and art.

Autorentext

Hartmut Böhme, Werner Röcke und Ulrike C. A. Stephan, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.